https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/inverse-archeology-series daily 0.75 2019-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064681013-G95SXQE1JMUZCLZ5XLPX/salome+copy.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series - inverse archeology series detail from O Zahir In the inverse archeology series, Camilleri uses painting to explore the friction between different layering of unrelated styles, media and identities onto one ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064681013-G95SXQE1JMUZCLZ5XLPX/salome+copy.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series - inverse archeology series detail from O Zahir In the inverse archeology series, Camilleri uses painting to explore the friction between different layering of unrelated styles, media and identities onto one ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494063393895-IURKYK0A7BGX3FP02Z9U/end.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series You used to be so definate acrylics, oils, shellac, ink on linen 260x200cm 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494063737280-A63F14TAHE0KTI1Q3XM6/salome+copy.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series - inverse archeology series detail from O Zahir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494063270382-M7JJD5HISPIVIKWJ78JQ/cool.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Days of the cool acrylics, graphite on linen 200x150cm 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494062948263-5QCKXYVL7M8MM3BNITN2/4thone.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series The fourth one is hiding acrylics, oils, ink, graphite, collage on linen 280x200cm 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064082849-5L648Z71RTI4ES4CLF6K/mamma+roma.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Mamma Roma acrylics, oils, pencil, ink on linen 200x150cm 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494063192636-QHRMHX19LP8F5L2YHQVM/basil.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Summer night, with French profile, almond eyes and a scent of basil acrylics, oils, ink, pencil on cotton 260x200cm 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064202782-QFU61OSQBG73OX1HS7IX/wish.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Wish you were here acrylics, oils, graphite, on linen 200x150cm 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064247939-T68VYJYIPX2FK7AO695U/pasodoble.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Pasodoble acrylics, oils, graphite, pastels, collage on canvas 200x150cm 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064144096-SA9T9E6H9A5RLYP55019/x.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series O Zahir acrylics, oils, shellac, ink, graphite, pastels, collage on cotton 260x200cm 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494014735848-HICDSS3Y6HZBKZFCUL8P/4thone.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064334228-RJ3NJ15H7DKS6WTME7SA/mosquito.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series Don’t sting the mosquito acrylics, oils, shellac, ink, graphite, pastels on linen 260x200cm 2010   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494064395153-MB08LOWSHYKIIAJNHN2M/hall+3bw.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series MCA, exhibition view, hall 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494224525179-VBXR2QHI28JOFVX6B0AU/gianni+4.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494224923691-Y22MZG8XLP5TIFPCJ4YZ/gianni+1.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494224969589-QZFHK3OH6SDIYFH325QX/ACP01.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494225049846-IV6WV6NXJIATFQSUUXQY/ACP02.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494225101738-COGNEDKM642EP0S5EY94/ACP11.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494225203825-BPHO2INZOIFQ328L2RRX/Austin+Camilleri+Stemperando+Opus640009.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494225277852-HK472Z3N7WMJM5ANJ2BS/DSCF0381.JPG inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494225343255-AZRU9O2OGWLOSIOEJP46/pentimenti+017+high+res.jpg inverse archeology/pentimenti series https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/blank daily 0.75 2017-05-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494161015843-TKND32WRR481ACKXWYYB/blankok.jpg blank blank interview on newspaper 1998, sat 28 march, pg8, L-orizzont, malta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494161015843-TKND32WRR481ACKXWYYB/blankok.jpg blank blank interview on newspaper 1998, sat 28 march, pg8, L-orizzont, malta https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/collaborations daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494329023994-W36IM7D5RJR09EC5DP5S/hate+futura+2.jpg collaborations t The Hate Politik y 2015 A collaboration with Kenneth Spieri, Mario Sammut and Tommi Zueggin bringing dance, music, visual art and theatre together in a highly physical performance. Without making reference to a specific situationThe Hate Politik is a piece about how hate is cultivated and conditioned, about the fact that people are conditioned to hate a person, a place. https://www.facebook.com/thehatepolitik/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494329023994-W36IM7D5RJR09EC5DP5S/hate+futura+2.jpg collaborations t The Hate Politik y 2015 A collaboration with Kenneth Spieri, Mario Sammut and Tommi Zueggin bringing dance, music, visual art and theatre together in a highly physical performance. Without making reference to a specific situationThe Hate Politik is a piece about how hate is cultivated and conditioned, about the fact that people are conditioned to hate a person, a place. https://www.facebook.com/thehatepolitik/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494329053270-V0P4S8M16FN4W6ROLHTN/hate+futura+1.jpg collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494329037010-ZSSEV0UTU3HEMSKUUZD7/hate+futura.jpg collaborations The Hate Politic, performance view, photos by Futura Tittaferrante https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494328664456-XD8UD2N4WVFHKUEJ9R1Q/IMG_7201.jpg collaborations   t Solo i Bambini ci salveranno y 2014 m scanned drawing printed on stickers with metal globes variable Solo i Bambini ci salveranno is a collaborative project with 12,000 pupils from primary schools. Each student’s drawing was scanned, printed on stickers and placed on light globes in formation of the Orion Belt. http://valletta2018.org/events/ziguzajg-solo-i-bambini-ci-salveranno/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494328582129-HY7SJFONWRVTJVL6NMDY/IMG_7220.jpg collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494328571509-3L0467JTNU6M7PMP8YTZ/IMG_7201.jpg collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494328604124-A01B95DZ9BT2V4BDNGBT/_DSC9446.JPG collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494328887052-T4BS8JEJZY77T8Y1VJXU/Stones_10.jpg collaborations t LUX y 2015 A multimedia collaboration with Mro Dr John Galea and Chorus Urbanus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494330271076-T2VH1L8TGW8X5IJVXFTA/DZL+_25A0835.jpg collaborations PAN the Goat-God - photos by Darrin Zammit Lupi t PAN II y 2014 Hagar Qim prehistoric Temples, Malta A Collaboration with composer Ruben Zahra Produced by Soundscapes with Actor: Adrian Azzopardi Dancer: Arlette Mangion Narrator: Manuel Cauchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494330249809-ITCZ43HH3RS8F4B8POU4/DZL+_25A0792.jpg collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494329631620-FGX30UQRMAMU3WDLVVRC/ahhar+three.jpg collaborations t L-AHHAR MOLL y 2011 3artists 3 composers, St James Cavalier, Valletta A collaboration with composer Reuben Pace   produced by Malta Association for Contemporary Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494331588150-Y4JQG7EJ9YQ0PQIMOXW2/happening-2-low-res.jpg collaborations t a happening y 1999 biagio steps, valletta a performance in collaboration with artists Pierre Portelli and the Body Art Grou   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494330468361-757SVRCYJ4DY987ZDU9U/happening-8b.jpg collaborations https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/projects daily 1.0 2022-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494148590694-M465NH390VKU825XCCWQ/kbt1.jpg works kelmabejntnejn   t Kelma bejn tnejn y 2008 m oil on canvas with a series of instructive emails d 200x150 cm (each) Work by instruction, installed at MCA, Marsa. By indirectintervention the artist directs this project from inception to unveiling without ever seeing the work. Through a series of instructive emails the artist instructs the manner in which the work is painted, stretched and pan hung. In commissioning the portrait of a government minister and an iconic painting to artisans in China in a context of mass production/precarious labour conditions together with the inflation that the market of such reproductions comprises, the artist becomes another cog in the machine of consumerism. Though his role is cast in the shadows of digital communication, his intervention is not diminished and like complications - the workings in a clockwork, his actions are essential to comment on the obscure narrative of a dialogue between the two. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494054838956-Y1XLIVAIAKVH4M8DQS4J/3.jpg works - blohladawl concept-project t Bl-ohla Dawl Libbist y 2014 - ongoing m disused site, stainless steel, light box, lights, hard stone cladding   Bl-ohla Dawl Libbist is the winning proposal for a monument commemorating the Maltese Republic. The artist chooses a marginal disused ditch in Valletta as the main site for this monument using a non-space to create a place for aggregation. The work departs from the premise that a Republic is a living idea, an unconditional belief in the fluctuating characteristics of the nations identity. The absence of the pedestal, removes the necessity of the gaze. Then in the absence of seeing, there will be room for being.     http://news.mytemplart.com/conceptual-monument-celebrate-republic-malta/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494181467895-6ZV8OFQ6GHJ7LRPI0O7G/deposition+view+copy.jpg works deposition, installation view, kulturzentrum, konstanz t deposition y 2006 m double video projection, 6min 20sec, 50sec lag between projections d variable   Depositon takes on an indirectness that suggests death as an empty signifier of cleanliness. The idea of a broken incomplete sign keeps the audience suspended in anticipation for a promised-but-never-delivered resolution.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494148003497-7SH2Z2V4CFNZ1QI3HKS9/ged3+copy.jpg works Homo immortalis t Homo immortalis (it takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait) y 2011 m plaster of paris, carrara marble d 12x6x4cm each (x9) Homo immortalis (it takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait) was first exibited in I Fought the X and the X won at Muzeul de Arta, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Echoing the musical tradition, the work uses souvenir-like busts of discredited men of power. The busts of Hussein, Amin, Ceaucescu, Aleman, Suharto, Milosevic, Gheddafi, Ben Ali and Marcos were shrouded and cast in cheap fragile material. Dictators dream of immortality and monumentality. In times of revolution, these monuments and symbols of the regime’s authority are generally the first target of the revolutionaries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494162339650-JS2080NAOE7F22WGMLW1/AC-13.jpg works Convalescence of an interrupted conundrum, installation view, Borders. t Convalescence of an interrupted conundrum y 2003 m 12 papier mache' statues , light bulb, cling film d 180x100x70cm each statue, installation : 330cm diam x 190cm In the work, a collection of village feast statues by the artists grandfather, Wistin Camilleri (1885-1979), are wrapped in cling film and installed in a claustrophobic vaulted space. As a result the statues are fictionalised: construed as 'art' in popular imagination, they are now presented as 'art' on another level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494322264625-5UDEADRZJCS9B3N5CD05/wall.jpg works untitled t untitled y 1998 m concrete bricks, frame d 300x200x50cm   Installation in a Catholic Church is the most intense period of the liturgy, the easter time. The church was handed to the artist and no masses were celebrated for the 15 day duration of the whole exhibition. the brick wall was cutting the congregation from the altar and titular painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494326965802-AY9R2M0MZJUQ7I8G1XXO/_MG_7143.JPG works Zieme   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494331804905-EQSFGOYTOIUE305O69JR/P5044077++May+04%2C+2017.jpg works Sebgha . seven t Sebgha y 2017 m found Globigerina Limestone with text engraving d 95x180x80cm Sebgha unveils a text engraving on found Globigerina Limestone which is arguably the most sought after sedimentary layer in the mediterranean building industry. Texts are taken from seven poems by the six Maltese poets: Ruzar Briffa, Norbert Bugeja, Claudia Gauci, Maria Grech Ganado, Adrian Grima, Daniel Massa and from the band Brikkuni. This object, taken from a wider series of site-specific interventions explores the transient and contingent aspects relatable to time as it concurrently occupies a space temporarily. A dichotomy emerges through its malleable nature: easily worked but also prone to a lveolar weathering, and yet used in fortifications and bastions. Instantaneously, the acts of engraving, fortifying, or demarking a boundary is counteracted with process of salt crystallisation that has its own manner of eroding, erasing and sculpting into nothingness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494332064106-QMQ3APYL9TKT1DX1XMXU/xwejniface.jpg works - stones   t Stones y 1999 m in situ and quarried upper coralline limestone, 22crt gold leaf d varied A site-responsive intervention with a series of installations across the Maltese Archipelago. Taking as reference the Duchampian ready made and flipping the concept diametrically opposite, the artist marks north, south, east and west points of the whole national territory to delineate its land, labelling it as 'museum'. The gilding survives for 4/5years, just the period nature takes to reclaim the interventions. In its formal crafting this work also heralds at centuries of the familiar process of gilding stone patterns in the local churches in gold leaf. But the artist’s sensibility towards the materials he chooses to work with, points out perhaps unassumingly, at a shift that occurs in and through this work. The moment he singles out the chosen rocks, unaltered, they had become stones. The intervention on the stone itself transcends the sculptural object in its reflective light. Call this art -and instantaneously, the work itself had started reverting to rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494333092417-OPXW6X8SITIGG7RVPWY0/Milkshake+AC+9.jpg works t No y 2012, m cotton, linen, lace, embroidery d 140x40cm   The artist commissions four parents of gay individuals a part of an intricate traditional lace work pattern. Mechanically, the prayer of contrition becomes formulated when the pieces are embroidered on the central part and all components of the work: digital,analogue and physical are sewn into one object. First exhibited in Milkshake, an exhibition about the queer body during gay marraige and adoption debate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494054675776-1L4KJY37N0NKJHCP6MSV/18339618_1484135658326474_899529414_o.jpg works Prayer t prayer y 2001/2002 m cast and hammered aluminium d 320x200x165cm     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1554213678516-YD7IJKQ3NXHHXW7L7VRT/wardija.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494327338489-HFHBAZIVVZC1F9FPKBUH/IMG_2971.JPG works Night has fallen t night has fallen y 2016-17 m physical and digital neon, full HD real time video 21:9 d 60x18x4cm Commissioned for the exhibition Malta - Land of Sea, BOZAR, Brussels. Consisting of a physical piece and a video installation that creates a dialogue with a dormant 18th century traditional ‘Tal-Lira’ clock, the work makes use of the Maltese language to explore time scans in a timeless and yet ever changing seascape. The artist suggests to challenge the pertinence of the island as a cognitive device for territorial description of time in a politically charged sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494232404287-E68W7OEQW8XY6MYUFORM/IMG_6508.JPG works Ghost Trip series t Ghost Trip Series y 2015 ongoing m video and works on paper d variable The Ghost Trip series started with works on hotel paper during an artist’s residency in China and most were first exhibited in Henderson Centre, Beijing. The ground of this series slowly shifted from hotel paper to found or reproduced graphic drawings that were eventually ‘erased’ with subsequent layers of non-newtonian ink and tar, emphasising the gravitational essence in dualities, opposing delicate marks (embossed using lead spheres from bullet cartridges) to imbued stains of pigment and underlay graphic information. The starting point of both planes is political and deals mainly with transitory paths, migration and displacement. The artist tends to think of them as Loss maps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1672139113468-2IUGCQPADFI10NVX8ZYJ/Hope.jpg works https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1672138499929-TVLBU52OR6EAZFC196QP/BRIANGRECH-AustinCamilleri-5053.jpg works https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/news daily 0.75 2025-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/5c112689-0807-4224-98e5-991e5d91e95b/leiva+caixa.jpg news Leiva is part of the final leg of the exhibition VENERADAS Y TEMIDAS at the CaixaForum In Valencia 8 May-31 August 2025 https://caixaforum.org/es/valencia/p/veneradas-y-temidas_a168375572 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/aa8f73fc-94c5-4eac-a0ab-56d722c7bdda/Website-event-Exhibition-436x320px.jpeg news 45bucketsplus, a new work by the artist will be shown in THE SPACE WE INHABIT, at the Malta international Contemporary Art Space In Valletta. 14 June 2025 – 28 September 2025 https://micas.art/exhibition/the-space-we-inhabit/ https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/590a0abce58c6287a4237ba4/1494270560778-8ZH20BIGEVMLC2I56GTF/P5044044++May+04%2C+2017.jpg Contact https://austin-camilleri.squarespace.com/biography daily 0.75 2025-06-03