RELATIONAL & CURATORIAL PRACTICE

I explore my relational practice through different languages - Art, Touch, Care, Curation, Participation, Holding Spaces.

This is a practice that moves between exhibition-making, participatory art programmes and therapeutic environments, sitting at the meeting point of culture, healthcare, education and policy.

With a background in nursing, design, fine art and digital arts, my approach is collaborative and multi-layered.

Each project is shaped through workshops and creative processes that respond to real contexts: clinical, work, community and organisational.

I am interested in creating encounters where meaningful questions can emerge. This is why I curate with a therapeutic instinct, using creativity and a practice of presence.

CONSULTANCY, RESEARCH & CULTURAL HEALTH PRACTICE

Alongside my curatorial and artistic practice, I contribute to ongoing conversations exploring the relationship between culture, wellbeing and public health. I am particularly interested in how creativity can support prevention, connection and emotional wellbeing within everyday life.

My work moves between facilitation, creative programme design, public engagement and cross-sector dialogue, often bringing together artists, healthcare professionals, researchers and policy stakeholders within shared spaces of reflection and exchange.

Through forums, workshops and collaborative initiatives developed with organisations such as Arts Council Malta and ARC Research & Consultancy, I continue to contribute to emerging discussions surrounding Arts on Prescription, cultural wellbeing and sustainable arts & health frameworks in Malta.

What interests me most is creating bridges:
between sectors,
between people,
and between creative experience and the ways we care for ourselves and each other.

At its core, this work is about reimagining wellbeing as something relational, creative and deeply human.

In the aftermath of change
as chaos subsides
new hybrid bonds form

This body of work traces a journey into conscious femininity.

It draws from lived experience, dreams and an ongoing dialogue using female and earth-based archetypes. Venus appears not only as myth, but as presence — rooted in cycles of fertility, sensuality and renewal.

Gold leaf emerges as both trace and offering.
Fragments of light held within matter. Charcoal, oil, paper on wood ground it.

From the series Return of Venus

It was 2018.

I found myself walking.

At first, it was simply a way to cope. A way to keep moving through a period of intense loss, when everything familiar began to fall away. Just being, felt unbearable. Being alone, even more so.

So I walked.

At night. At 2 am or 3 am.
Through streets emptied of people and noise.
Photographing my shadow moving against walls, pavements, roads, double yellow lines and zebra crossings.

Outside felt more familiar than home and the streets became a kind of refuge.

There was something about those hours — suspended, quiet, almost unreal — where I felt more alive, more present.

Just as I followed the road in front of me, I followed the line. I would draw and write.

Journalling became a way of recording thoughts, dreams, fragments of experience. Writing and walking became a release, a form of witnessing.

In a sense, a series of encounters, coincidences or quiet orchestrations led me to what I am drawn to most.

A practice of self, a practice of encounter.

drawing, writing & walking

This work unfolds through a dialogue with loss.

Fallen leaves, preserved between sheets of newspaper
a legacy from mentor and dear friend, Charles Cassar.

Each leaf is held, then altered,
torn, repositioned, suspended at the edge of separation.

The wooden surface, primed with earth, becomes both burial ground and womb. A space that receives, holds and allows transformation.

Leaves gather in quiet strata, forming new possibilities.
In losing their original form, they begin to relate differently.

As Issa Samb suggests, when a leaf shifts from nature into object, it enters another state — one that allows it to carry meaning.

Here, the leaf becomes a marker of transience.
A gesture toward what remains, a quiet participant in how we understand loss,
and how we continue to relate
to each other,
and to what has passed.

ARTIST PRACTICE

My artistic practice unfolds through movement, image, material and presence.

It begins with lived experience.
With moments of rupture.
With the need to make sense, to reconnect, to find a way through.

Across writing, walking, digital narratives, painting and collage, I work with processes that hold transition. This personal creative practice is the primary resource to my curatorial and relational projects.

From the photocollage series Just keep walking: exercises in continuity

Oil seeps into its surface
Charcoal presses into its grain
A passage opens

From the series

Between you & me

More recently, during a Wondering and Wandering retreat in Lia Gard, Norway, this practice deepened. In the stillness of forest and lake, I returned to listening to nature, to something quieter, internal. I heard my silenced voice speak through the trees, the mountains and the waters of the lake.

A tactile, material practice.
Working with earth, leaf, charcoal, pigment, trace.

An alchemic space where memory and loss transform.

painting & collage

An empathic audio-visual installation.

A body in illness becomes unfamiliar terrain. What once felt like home begins to shift, resist, estrange. Sanctuary emerges from this rupture — when the body itself no longer feels like refuge, home.

The work creates a temporary, immersive shelter. A contained space where external noise softens and attention returns inward — to rhythm, breath and the sound of one’s own heartbeat.

Using the sea as a central metaphor, boundaries dissolve. Body and landscape slide into each other. Limits blur, merge, evaporate.

Sanctuary is both artwork and relational process.
A space for reflection, for dialogue with self and other.

Exhibited as part of Propolis, Spazju Kreattiv

Sanctuary

digital audio-visuals

A collaborative research project and exhibition exploring an audio-visual language as a tool for clinical environments.

Through moving image and sound, a language emerges. Nature becomes the guide — water, sky, horizon, earth — dissolving boundaries between self and other, body and landscape.

Within these environments, a quiet dialogue unfolds.
Between patient, practitioner and space.

Moments of recognition arise.
A softening.
A return to presence.

Installed within hospitals and shared within public cultural contexts, the work moves between two worlds — those living within care environments and those encountering them in a arts-based context.

First presented at Spazju Kreattiv, and supported by Arts Council Malta and TAKEOFF Business Incubation Centre.

Deep Shelter audio-visuals

Get in Touch

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