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Anna Calleja | New Collection
with additional paintings and contemporary craft for Christmas
19th November 20222 to 6th January 2023
Anna Calleja |Embrace| oil on canvas
Throughout the Christmas season, New Craftsman St Ives exhibits new work by Maltese born artist Anna Calleja. Calleja's paintings explore quiet moments of introspection that relate to the comfort and melancholy of home. As a young artist living and working away from Malta, her interest lies in dualities, in the tension between isolation and connection, love and pain, and in confronting an anxious present and uncertain future.
Anna graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2020. She has exhibited at Spazju Kreattiv in Malta and at Tate St. Ives, Porthmeor Studios Cornwall, and at the Mall Galleries in London. In 2020, her painting,Alone in Quarantinewas awarded the Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, and earlier this year she was awarded the Premju Ghal-Arti for Best Young Artist of the Year by Arts Council Malta.
Also on show is a mixed collection of work inspired by the very best in contemporary craft, from fine art jewellery and sculpture to studio ceramics, including ceramic 'assemblage' and collage by Central St Martins graduate Matthew Richardson, and sculptural works by Rowena Brown and Justine Allison, against a backdrop of exceptional Cornish and British painting.
For further information contact New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore St, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26 1HE.01736 795652 | info@newcraftsmanstives.com | www.newcraftsmanstives.com
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Editors Notes
New Craftsman St Ives
With an international reputation amongst art and craft collectors for its painting, sculpture and quality studio ceramics, the New Craftsman is regarded as one of the most important spaces for contemporary artists in St Ives. Founded in the mid-1960s by potter Janet Leach, it holds an unrivalled reputation as one of the country's leading art and craft venues. Today the gallery's annual programme of mixed and solo exhibitions continues to support the work of Cornwall's and the UK's very best painters and craftspeople.
New Craftsman Gallery, 24 Fore Street, St. Ives, Cornwall TR26 1HE | Tel: +44 (0)1736 795652 |info@newcraftsmanstives.com|www.newcraftsmanstives.com
For further press information or additional images contact Mercedes Smith at Fine Art Communications director@fineartcommunications.co.uk / Tel 07825 270235 / www.fineartcommunications.co.uk
