Featured on Risotto Issue #36, 2020 - (Risotto is one of Scotland’s leading Printing and Design Specialist Studios)
'Mama, allura din Imhabba?" (Co-authored and Illustrated with Mark Scicluna) awarded Best Original Work (Ages 0 - 7) and Best Production at the Malta National Book Prize 2018. Published by Merlin Publishers.
Winner of the Kelpies Illustration Prize 2018 (Scotland, UK)
One of six Petit Bateau (French Design Label) 100 ans competition winners - 'Culotte' Illustration selected from more than 14,500 Entries (2018) and now for sale at Petit Bateau
Selected Artist for the Malta Creative Europe Desk Promotional Strategy - 2017
Awards & Recognition
"Dar tal-Holm "children's picture book, Merlin Publishers 2022
"Mama, Allura din Imhabba?"children's picture book co-authored & co-illustrated with Mark Scicluna, Merlin Publishers 2017
Published Books
Published Book Illustration
‘La Ragazza Mela’ - Casa Editrice Le Lettere, 2021
‘A Rent Seeker’s Paradise’ - Book Cover for author Mark Camilleri, 2021
‘Wild Girl, Wild Boy’ - AVC Publishers
‘Stellini Kursar Malti’ - Merlin Publishers, 2020
‘Beltin: Stejjer minn nies minsija’ - Merlin Publishers, 2019
‘Il-Vinkulari - Il-Muftieħ tal-Passat’ - Merlin Publishers, 2019
'Tikka Qari: Il-Misteru tal-Arlogg, it-tieni parti' - Merlin Publishers, 2018
‘Lorella u l-ġenju li ma kienx jaf jaqra’ - BDL Publishers, 2018
'Tikka Qari: Super Nina' - Merlin Publishers, 2017
'Tikka Qari: Il-Misteru tal-Arlogg' - Merlin Publishers, 2017
'Tikka Qari: Dar Gdida ghal Guzi' - Merlin Publishers, 2017
'Tikka Qari: Ir-Ragel tal-Mantell Iswed' - Merlin Publishers, 2017
'Il-Vinkulari - Il-Vjaggaturi taz-Zmien' - Merlin Publishers, 2017
'Patatinu - Il-Hmar ta' Qalbu Tajba' - Horizons Publishers, 2017
"Tikka Qari: Il-Hadd id-Dar tan-Nanna" - Merlin Publishers, 2016
"Roki Jixtieq ikun Annimal iehor" - Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2016
Selected Published Editorial Illustration
Illustrations for Women’s Running Magazine (US), October 2020
Illustration for ‘A Broken Mirror’ published by the Commonwealth Writer on Adda Stories, 2020
Cover Illustration for Business Agenda Publication (Malta), June 2019
Cover Illustration for Business Agenda Publication (Malta), 2018
Cover Illustration for Country Profiler - Cyprus Country Report, 2018
Illustration reworked for ‘In the forest of our childhood’ published on ‘trees’ Journal of International Tree Foundation Volume 75 - Autumn 2018
Illustration for 'In the forest of our childhood’ story published on Adda-Stories, 2018
Cover Illustration and Editorial Illustrations for Malta Gaming Authority Annual Report 2016 - 2017
Editorial Illustrations for Cyprus Investments Fund Guide 2016 - 2017
"No Cause for Celebration" published on 'Pushing out the boat magazine' Issue 14, 2017
Cover illustration for "Fittixni" a book by Antoinette Borg, published by Merlin Publishers, 2016
Illustration for "Her Sister" story published on Adda-Stories, 2016
Cover Art (2015) and Editorial illustration (2013) for Schlock Magazine - online
Cover Illustration for Issues 8, 9, 10, 11 of Indulge Magazine, 2014
Selected Press
Live Feature on ‘TVAM’ (TVM) on my new picture book, ‘Dar tal-Holm’ - December 2022
The ‘From Illustration to Book’ Exhibition Opens the 2022 Malta Book Festival featured on Arts Council Malta - November 2022
Featured on 'The Book Seller' for Winning the Kelpies Illustration Prize in 2018
"Mile-stone Gender Equality Publication" - A feature on my book "Mama, Allura din Imhabba?" on The Times of Malta - June 2017
"A Space Boy Dream' webcomic featured as one of MaltaToday's Best Ideas in 2015
"Colouring Outside the Lines" - Interview on MaltaToday Newspaper - September 2015
Feature on my design for "Little Dudes" Berlin on Behance Toy Design Served - 2015
Feature on 'Xebgha Nies' on 'Il-Bizzilla' Air Malta's In-flight Magazine - 2014
"What if the toddler were an insect?" - Interview on MaltaToday Newspaper - March 2014
"Faces, faces everywhere" - Review on Xebgha Nies Exhibition on The Times of Malta - March 2014
Feature on 'A Space Boy Dream' webcomic on 'Let's Go' Ryan Air magazine - 2013
Comic Strip Artists and their "Space Boy Dream" on Malta Inside Out - 2012
Events / Workshops / Mentorship / Other Projects
Founded Malta Community of Illustrators in 2020 and built a team of talented local illustrators to launch various local illustration projects and to create a space and online hub for Maltese illustration. Live updates on our Instagram.
ARTNA Exhibition (An online collaborative exhibition of illustrations about the destruction of Malta's environment)
Panel discussion at the Malta Book Festival 2020 on the business of Illustration
Kliem ix-Xjuh (An online collaborative exhibition celebrating the vulnerable and elderly) - we also distributed postcards of our illustrations to various homes.
Malta: A Meeting Point (A collaborative exhibition with the Maltese Embassy in Spain) 2021
Collaboration with Maltatoday newspaper where we feature one of our members’ work in their weekly culture section.
Arts Council Malta new office murals - an MCOI collaborative project 2021
Malta and our Way of Life (A collaborative exhibition with the Maltese Embassy in Spain) 2022
Launch of the second Malta Illustration Annual at the Malta Book Festival 2022
Panel discussion at the Malta Book Festival 2022 on Book Publishing and Illustration, 2022
Awarded practice research funding from Arts Council Malta for 'Creative Maltese in Parallel' project 2018
Artist in Residence (Illustration) at Edinburgh College of Arts 2017 - 2018
Malta Arts Council Evaluator for Community Art Projects in 2016
Behance Portfolio Speaker & Portfolio Reviewer in collaboration with Pure Concepts Design Agency - 2016
Character Design workshop in collaboration with Mark Scicluna as part of the National Book Festival - University of Malta - 2016
BPW Malta (Business and Professional Women) Careers Day Mentor - 2014 and 2015
Selected Exhibitions
Fjura - collaborative exhibition with photographer, Kurt Paris - Malta Institute of Professional Photography, 2023
From Illustration to Book - collaborative exhibition where I showed my work and which I also helped organise as Malta Community of Illustrators. The exhibition was a project by Malta Arts Council and Book Council Malta - MFCC, Attard, 2022 and 2023
il fuq mill-għatba - an online collaborative exhibition with photographer, Kurt Paris - Online, 2020
Spread the Ink - a collection of screen prints (featuring one of my works) by Alexandra Aquilina - DESKO, Valletta, 2020
Minn taħżiża għal qoxra (Part of the Campus Book Festival) - University of Malta, 2019
Wiki Loves Art 2019 - Art+Feminism - Space C Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta 2019
Compendium Collective - Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 2018
50 Posters for Malta Collective - San Anton Palace, Attard, 2018
Xebgha Nies Collective - St.James Cavalier, Valletta 2014
MADA 2012 Collective - Camberwell College of Arts, London 2012
The Art of Silence Collective - General Workers’ Union, Valletta 2010
Interview with Maltese Illustrator and Designer, Philip Sultana, 2022
Editorial for the Malta Illustration Annual 2022 focusing on the challenges of AI Art, 2022
Interview with London-based Maltese illustrator, Daniela Attard, 2022
Interview with Portugal-based Maltese illustrator and designer, Ed Dingli, 2022
Interview with Maltese illustrator and digital artist, Zack Ritchie, 2022
Interview with Maltese artist and illustrator, Julian Mallia (Julinu), 2022
Review of ‘Illustration Research Methods’ by Rachel Gannon and Mireille Faucho, 2022
Review of ‘The Power and Influence of Illustration’ by Alan Male, 2022
Review of ‘Illustration: A Theoretical and Contextual Perspective’ by Alan Male, 2022
Review of ‘The Fundamentals of Illustration’ by Lawrence Zeegen, 2022
‘Creative Maltese In Parallel’ Illustrated Research project as part of my art residency at Edinburgh College of Art - This was a practice-research project supported by a paper that also included illustrated data and findings. Supported by Arts Council Malta (Research Fund)
Several Interviews have also been carried out with Maltese illustrators such as Prof.Gorg Mallia, Marisa Attard, Inez Kristina and others, however these are yet to be published on the MCOI blog.