AUSTIN CAMILLERI STUDIO

07/05/2026

Grateful to John Paul Grech for his words that echo so resonantly.
https://timesofmalta.com/article/wiehed-really-matters.1127958?fbclid=IwY2xjawRo9mBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeYHD7SmXRh3Iqg28dQQUgd92Krr0sHNOpc7k3qkm9PgIq3CI-vPpNpPZq_fw_aem_KZ-4LbHGOEK1dLi7AbHg-w

Great artists like Austin Camilleri – one of Malta’s finest – deserve deference and respect, not insensitive and puerile keyboard flourish, writes John Paul Grech

02/05/2026

Thanks to the editor and Times of Malta

Artist Austin Camilleri's public art prompts debates on Malta's cultural identity

21/04/2026

|press|
|Gozo, Malta]
WIEĦED, a new sculpture by Austin Camilleri, was installed in Ras ir-Reqqa, within the limits of Żebbuġ, on Monday. The project was one of four sculptures selected through an open call for Public Art in 2021 by the Ministry for Gozo and eventually commissioned by the Ministry in 2023. The four works were formally launched on 26th February at Hotel ta' Cenc, in the presence of Minister Clint Camilleri.
This scheme aspired to deepen cultural engagement by increasing the presence of contemporary public art in Gozo through a competitive evaluation process.
WIEĦED (meaning “one”) marks a bold intervention that rethinks the relationship between monument, landscape, and cultural identity.
Blending playfulness with conceptual depth, WIEĦED creates a “pure image” inspired by European statuary. The work reinterprets traditional sculptural codes through a process of sampling and transformation. The result is both familiar and disruptive: a form that retains the grandeur of classical monuments while subtly challenging the austere nature of their authority and reflecting on the more-than-human natural condition. Its form reflects the site’s coastal contour and is in dialogue with the submerged Billighurst Cave.
Public art, by its very nature, invites discussion. WIEĦED enters this conversation as a contemporary artistic intervention engaging directly with the natural environment and aims to become a contemporary coastal landmark, echoing Malta’s historic watchtowers and contributing to the island’s cultural identity.
The bronze sculpture’s asymmetrical structure, characterised by a pronounced cantilever, features a complex structure supported by a steel armature, engineered for durability in a coastal environment. Its installation involved careful structural planning and environmental analysis. No new pathways, plinth, or artificial lighting have been introduced as part of the project ensuring minimal intervention and preserving the integrity of the public landscape.
Ultimately, WIEĦED seeks to position itself as a lasting cultural symbol that connects past and present while coexisting with the natural environment.

photo caption Ivan Galea

20/04/2026

WIEĦED
h570cm, bronze stainless steel, nature
2021-2026
Ras ir-Reqqa, Gozo, Malta

The work reinterprets traditional sculptural codes through a process of sampling and transformation. Blending playfulness with iconic weight, WIEĦED creates an image both familiar and disruptive.
The project was one of four sculptures selected through an open call for Public Art in 2021 by the Ministry for Gozo and marks a bold intervention that rethinks the relationship between monument, landscape, and cultural identity.

photos by the artist and Darren Cassar

29/03/2026

12/03/2026

LUMEN,
limestone, 87x115x72cm, 2025

MaltaBiennale 26, Grand Masters’s Palace, Valletta
11/03-29/05/2026

LUMEN stands in between sculpture and architecture. Deep within compressed matter, the carving in stone is both a tomb and a womb, a sacred chamber/chapel.The concept comes from a time of simultaneous family mourning and the birth of the artist’s son.
First exhibited in Silence with Abundant Birdsong,
Lumen’s aesthetics and function interdependently revel in balance, neither self-serving nor subservient—calling for an experience that hovers between dark and light, death, and life, with one at present.

27/09/2025

Last 2 days to visit.
It has been a privilege to participate in The Space We Inhabit and to share the MICAS galleries with such remarkable artworks and esteemed colleagues and friends.
A heartfelt thanks to my studio assistants, the MICAS board, technical team, administrative and operations staff, and, in particular, to Artistic Director Edith Devaney for the invaluable support and dedication throughout this project.

‘Gozo Series’, 2023- ongoing, concrete from Gozitan construction sites, lifesize.
Colonising The Space We Inhabit in a hide and seek way.
photo by Julian Vassallo

09/09/2025

The work consists of 45 segments of cast concrete, each molded from a pristine surface in Dwejra, Gozo. But the concrete itself is not neutral - it remembers — it was sourced from 45 different construction sites across the island. Each segment is tied to a specific location, a precise provenance.

45buckets exhibited for the first time in THE SPACE WE INHABIT, curated by Edith Devaney, at Malta International Contemporary Art Space, from the 14th June till the 28th September 2025

19/08/2025

Last few days to see LEIVA in Valencia
City of Arts and Sciences | Part of “Veneradas y Temidas”

LEIVA’s final stop is now on view at CaixaForum Valencia, as part of Veneradas y Temidas (“Revered and Feared”)—the British Museum and La Caixa Foundation’s touring exhibition.
First shown on the pillory of Palazzo Castellania during Le.Iva: angerisalazyformofgrief—a solo exhibition curated by Rosa Martínez at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta—LEIVA’s name (yes/no) carries an opposition that can be translated into many other binary forms of judgement between good and bad, innocence and culpability, between witchcraft and sainthood.
Spanning over 5,000 years, Veneradas y Temidas explores the influence of feminine spiritual power across civilizations. After touring Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and Zaragoza, the exhibition concludes in Valencia.

LEIVA
Cold cast aluminium, white paint
163×42×32 cm
2021/2022

22/06/2025

'You used to be so definite” - 2010 - part of the Inverse Archeology Series

Showing in THE SPACE WE INHABIT at Malta International Contemporary Art Space, from the 14th June till the 28th September 2025

17/06/2025

"Thirteen Stones" is being exhibited in its entirety for the first time in THE SPACE WE INHABIT at the Malta International Contemporary Art Space, from 14th June to 28th September 2025.

“In Stones, I explored themes of territory and transience. With the thirteen stones, I’m obscuring their materiality—turning them into reflective objects that absorb light, becoming almost void-like, shimmering with ambiguity.”

The thirteen stones are relics: small rocks sourced from the actual sites of Austin’s major territorial intervention, STONES (1999). In STONES, boulders were gilded directly on site—on the southernmost coast of Delimara, on the cliffs of Dingli, at City Gate in Valletta, and in the middle of Xwejni Beach—and left to interact with nature.