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BIO
Emma Fsadni was born in Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium and educated in Australia, the Netherlands and Malta where she received her B.A. Honours in Fine Arts (First Class) from the MCAST Institute for Creative Arts in 2018.
As an adolescent, Emma was absorbed in all things materialistic, with age came awareness, recognising the frivolousness that such a lifestyle brings. As a result her work tends to stem from a certain emotion or thought that would be surfacing at the time. She references contemporary observations and conflicts surrounding themes such as habits, perception, conditioning, and social conformity. Emma translates the complexity of her concepts through means of a minimal aesthetic; condensing her ideas visually, while retaining levels of intricacy in process. She gravitates towards two-dimensional media, namely drawing, printing, and painting. She finds that such mediums allow a level of sensitivity in execution to be maintained. Her work typically takes form through series, which is very much tied to the comfort she finds in sequence and repetition.
Fsadni has taken part in a number of local collective exhibitions. She has also recently launched an ongoing series of illustrative limited edition fine art prints under the primary title ‘REPOSE’. As the title suggests, they are done in her downtime and are more instantaneous and playful compared to her other work.
CV
Higher Education
2017 – 2018, First Class B.A. (Hons) in Fine Arts, MCAST, Institute for the Creative Arts, Mosta, Malta
2017, What do we Mean by Drawing? Taught by Caesar Attard School of Art Master Class, Malta
2015 – 2017, Higher National Diploma in Fine Arts
2012 – 2015, Extended Diploma in Arts and Crafts
Exhibitions
August — September 2021, Conditioned Comforts — SOLO EXHIBITION, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
May 2021, Unwoven, The Mill, Gabriel Caruana Foundation, Malta
November 2021, Current/s, Desko, Valletta, Malta
February – March 2020, Art + Feminism 2020, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
June 2019, Displacing, collaborative exhibition with Martina Camilleri, Splendid, Valletta, Malta
March 2019, Levis Trucker Jacket Contest Exhibition, Valletta, Malta
December – January 2018, Shifting Context, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta, Malta
October 2018, Notte Bianca Show, Malta School of Art, Valletta, Malta
July 2018, The Undergrad, Iniala 5 Galleries, Valletta, Malta
July 2018, ICA Festival, Local Council, Valletta, Malta