Medium: Mixed media on paper
Size: 24.5 cm x 18.5 cm (unframed) 43 cm x 37 cm (framed)
Year: 2020
Artwork Description: A subtle golden light emanating through a tiny window of an apparently old building alludes to the title of this artwork, ‘Insomnia’. Sleepless nights endured by artists, composers and writers, who can’t close their eyes on their creative verve, and yet long to fall asleep and surrender to the night’s shadows.
Joyce Camilleri holds a Masters Degree as an Art Teacher (University of West of Scotland). She currently fills the post of full-time Art Teacher at the Malta School of Art, whilst constantly developing a personal visual language that pushes the boundaries of contemporary drawing, printmaking, painting and mixed media practices. This all brings about both figurative and quasi-abstract visual metaphors that meander along the fine line that divides, yet unites the real and the surreal. Such artistic research enables Joyce to explore the poetic space of contemporary art forms, whilst constantly nourishing and revisiting an artistic process that is allowed to prevail over subject-matter. Artistic intent and process-led practices retain interchangeable roles throughout her approach to art theory and practice.
