Anna Calleja Morning Light, 2022 Ink and Chalk on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Anna Calleja (b.1997) is a Maltese multidisciplinary artist primarily working in paint, print and sculpture. Calleja has exhibited across the UK and abroad, at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, at Tate St. Ives, Porthmeor Studios, and at the Mall Galleries in London amongst others. Calleja was the recipient of a Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition for her 2020 painting 'Alone in Quarantine'. Calleja was recently a finalist for the Premju ghal-arti award for Best Young Artist of the Year, an award by the Malta Arts Council that celebrates the main achievements in the Maltese cultural scene. Her work retires to the comfort and melancholy of home, using the process of painting to create quiet moments of introspection. She looks back on her own notions of comfort to confront an anxious present and grapple with an uncertain future. Calleja's interest lies in dualities; the tension and dissonance between comfort and melancholy, isolation and connection, love and pain. Education First class honours in BA (hons) Fine Art from Falmouth University Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: Finalist Premju Ghal-Arti Best Young Artist, 2022 (pending results) Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award, ROI Annual Exhibition 2020 Best Emerging Young Artist, ARTZ ID, 2020 C-A-S-T Residency, Helston 2019 Midas Award at the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange 2019 Malta Arts Scholarship, 2017-2020 Exhibitions: 2022 Domestic Bliss, Beaux Arts Bath, Bath Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London Sea Sunset Moon, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta 2021 Anna Calleja: On Hold, New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives RP Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London Homebound solo exhibition, Palazzo de La Salle, Valletta, Malta Launch Exhibition, Morgans, Falmouth ROI Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Extraordinary Postcards for Extraordinary Times, Newlyn Art Gallery Postcard Exhibition, Highgate Art Gallery, London 2019 Environments, Tate St. Ives Tate Collective Producer at Otobong Nkanga Ustudio, Tate St. Ives Anna Calleja and Will Calver, Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These four works (one oil painting and three ink drawings) sit in between comfort and melancholy suspended in quietude. I look back on my own notions of comfort to confront an anxious present and grapple with an uncertain future. Two of the ink drawings depict my cat, sitting still in silent ambivalence or bathed in morning light. While the world grows ever more turbulent, divisive and moves steadily towards climate crises, the cat passively sleeps on, as do we. 'Homebound' portrays a figure suspended in time, between past and present, life and death and comfort and melancholy while 'Scissors' plays on the Ancient Greek myth of Atropos, one of the three fates, who holds the shears that cut the thread of life. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardizes the charitable work we do. Anyone found doing will subject to legal action.
Anna Calleja Morning Light, 2022 Ink and Chalk on Paper Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Anna Calleja (b.1997) is a Maltese multidisciplinary artist primarily working in paint, print and sculpture. Calleja has exhibited across the UK and abroad, at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, at Tate St. Ives, Porthmeor Studios, and at the Mall Galleries in London amongst others. Calleja was the recipient of a Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition for her 2020 painting 'Alone in Quarantine'. Calleja was recently a finalist for the Premju ghal-arti award for Best Young Artist of the Year, an award by the Malta Arts Council that celebrates the main achievements in the Maltese cultural scene. Her work retires to the comfort and melancholy of home, using the process of painting to create quiet moments of introspection. She looks back on her own notions of comfort to confront an anxious present and grapple with an uncertain future. Calleja's interest lies in dualities; the tension and dissonance between comfort and melancholy, isolation and connection, love and pain. Education First class honours in BA (hons) Fine Art from Falmouth University Select Exhibitions/Awards Awards: Finalist Premju Ghal-Arti Best Young Artist, 2022 (pending results) Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award, ROI Annual Exhibition 2020 Best Emerging Young Artist, ARTZ ID, 2020 C-A-S-T Residency, Helston 2019 Midas Award at the Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange 2019 Malta Arts Scholarship, 2017-2020 Exhibitions: 2022 Domestic Bliss, Beaux Arts Bath, Bath Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage, London Sea Sunset Moon, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta 2021 Anna Calleja: On Hold, New Craftsman Gallery, St. Ives RP Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London Homebound solo exhibition, Palazzo de La Salle, Valletta, Malta Launch Exhibition, Morgans, Falmouth ROI Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2020 Extraordinary Postcards for Extraordinary Times, Newlyn Art Gallery Postcard Exhibition, Highgate Art Gallery, London 2019 Environments, Tate St. Ives Tate Collective Producer at Otobong Nkanga Ustudio, Tate St. Ives Anna Calleja and Will Calver, Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork These four works (one oil painting and three ink drawings) sit in between comfort and melancholy suspended in quietude. I look back on my own notions of comfort to confront an anxious present and grapple with an uncertain future. Two of the ink drawings depict my cat, sitting still in silent ambivalence or bathed in morning light. While the world grows ever more turbulent, divisive and moves steadily towards climate crises, the cat passively sleeps on, as do we. 'Homebound' portrays a figure suspended in time, between past and present, life and death and comfort and melancholy while 'Scissors' plays on the Ancient Greek myth of Atropos, one of the three fates, who holds the shears that cut the thread of life. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardizes the charitable work we do. Anyone found doing will subject to legal action.
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