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Paul Stellini in London

(Thursday, 19th September 2002)

Paul A. Stellini - Homage to an island home: Gozo is the title of a painting exhibition that Paul A.  Stellini is holding at Westminster  Hall, Westminster Abbey in London. Its is part of the Malta Day celebrations being organized by the Malta High Commission in London in September 2002. It’s the first time that the artist will be exhibiting in London and the 4^th personal exhibition overseas.

The exhibition is supported by The Malta Tourism Authority, Bank of Valletta, Ghajnsielem Local Council and the Ministry for Gozo.

Art Critic by Joe Scicluna:  The artist’s homeland, the small Mediterranean island of Gozo, is currently undergoing a metamorphic period in its history. The ‘traditional Gozo’ which seemed to defy time and development is rapidly vanishing before Stellini’s eyes. He has risen to the challenge of focusing his own particular vision on landscapes, urban and rural, as well as the traditional religious culture which symbolizes for the artist the bedrock of the island’s millennial past. His poetic vision of Gozo’s past and ephemeral present marks his works as an elegiac tribute to the culture in which he was raised and nurtured him and of which he is still proud to form a part.

Biography: Paul A. Stellini was born in Sydney, Australia, but at the age of four he returned with his parents to their native island Gozo. After studying under the private tuition of artist Paul Camilleri Cauchi, Stellini followed a course in graphic design under the tuition of Maltese artist Anthony Calleja. He also holds a diploma in Commercial Art and Interior Design. Today Paul A. Stellini teaches graphical communications at the Aguis de Soldanis Girls’ Juniour Lyceum and art at the Wistin Camilleri of Fine Arts .

Besides participating in various collective exhibitions, Paul A. Stellini regularly organizes personal exhibitions in Gozo and Malta. His works are to be found in private collections both locally and abroad, besides numerous designs for monuments, street and squares’ embellishments as well as stage designs in Gozitan localities. He proudly notes that among his patrons there is England’s soccer star Michael Owen as well as former Liverpool FC stalwarts Phil Neal and David Fairclough and the American actor Gabriel Byrnes

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