Meet the artists

Bonaci’s paintings breathe with the textures and tones of the Maltese land, where stone and sea fold into the contours of memory. Her work carries the quiet weight of nostalgia, layering colours that represent a landscape both ancient and eternal. Shaped by moments of her own journey, each piece becomes an intimate offering. An emotion, a fragment of experience that expands outward into the universal. In this way, the personal dissolves into the shared, inviting empathy and connection through the act of looking. Central to her visual language are figures inspired by Malta’s prehistoric heritage. For Bonaci, these forms do not represent goddesses but rather Ancestors, people of the past who become vessels bridging past and present, creating a sense of stillness suspended in time.

Ed Dingli is a visual artist whose work explores themes of identity & place, the quirks of humanity and the intricacies of nature. Blending storytelling with a graphic, expressive style, he experiments with both analogue and digital media, including painting, printmaking, and large-scale murals. 

Originally from Malta, Ed moved to the UK to study Graphic Communication at the University for the Creative Arts, where he completed a thesis on ethics & social responsibility in design. Now based in Portugal, Ed works as an independent artist with a focus on creating impactful visuals for causes including climate justice, human rights and environmental regeneration.

Herkli Mátyás Barnabás (b. 1987) is a Hungarian illustrator, animation filmmaker, and architectural artist based in Budapest. Trained in architecture, he transitioned to illustration and animation after several years in the field, finding in them a more personal form of artistic expression. His graphic style blends architectural precision with the influence of Hungarian artists of the 1960s and 70s.

Working primarily in black and white, Mátyás creates symbolic, narrative-rich works often infused with subtle humor and satire. His inspirations include the literary worlds of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, whose magical realism echoes through his art. His works explore themes of individual and society, spiritual searching, and the beauty and absurdity of human struggle.

Sebastian Tanti Burlo’ (b.1987) is a Maltese political cartoonist, painter and writer, currently residing in London. His cartoons have been published weekly in the Times of Malta since 2014. 

Graduated in Architecture + Urban Studies from the University of Westminster (London). Under the name Burlò, he has been exhibited in Malta, Barcelona, Florence and London. His work combines current affairs, satire and writing to create a socio-commentary of today’s times in bold paintings. His last solo exhibition, ANTIC HAY was shown by Cicek Gallery, London (2024). Burlò’s  most recent group show FAMILIAR was exhibited along side, Lydia Cecil, Katie Rockley and Adam Roud at The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (2025). He is married to the artist Lydia Cecil.

Artist Statement - A farrago of themes that have brought me joy or worry over the past few years. Nature, journalism, post-truth, climate change, society, etc. represented in oils, ink, pencil colour and words.

Award-winning British artist Pete Codling continues to redefine contemporary figurative drawing and sculpture with a powerful fusion of historical narrative and modern sociopolitical commentary. With a career spanning over three decades, Codling’s work ranges from large-scale public art to intimate, intricately detailed drawings. His latest works push the boundaries of scale, storytelling, and the human experience. Born in Zambia in 1969 and raised in the UK by Anglo-Irish parents, Codling’s journey has taken him from Cornwall to London, Scotland, and ultimately Portsmouth, where he is now based. His education at Portsmouth College of Art & Design, East London Polytechnic, and Wimbledon School of Art laid the foundation for his distinctive practice, which interweaves sculpture, drawing, and site-specific art.

Tarini Sethi works across mediums, with rich drawing and painting practices that she then translates into large metal works. Across her practices, she creates her own language of futurism, imagining the body as a site of infinite possibility. 

Challenging the normative standards of form and gender,Sethi's figures reflect utopian worlds where bodily structures are malleable and fluid. She is interested in the blurring of boundaries, between erotic and abject, human and non human, creating a world that’s ultimately defined by love and acceptance. Her work responds to the culture of sexual repression and gender inequality she encounters in India, creating universes that dare to imagine otherwise. 

Sethi's aesthetic practice draws upon the deep world of Indian art history, referencing various schools of painting in her signature compositions. Her metal works translate the two dimensional works into immersive experiences, where light and shadow are as much a medium as metal itself. 

Tarini Sethi got her BA in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College (2010) and her BFA in Drawing at Pratt institute (2014). She has  participated in solo and group shows in India, LA, Miami and Japan including Kult Gallery, Singapore (2018), Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai (2019, 2020), Chemould Colab, Mumbai (2023) , Art Basel, Hong Kong (2021), Geek art, Japan (2024), Rajiv Menon Contemporary, LA (2024, 2025) ans fairs like Art Mumbai, Untitled Art Fair, Miami (2024) and India Art Fair (2025) and Paris Asian Art Fair (2025)

Crafting alternative realms using the wide tonal range of graphite, Péter Gallov covers the page with eerie smoke floating between the curled-up layers of dreams and the vast voids of imagination. Gallov invites us into his cave of personal contemplation, where symbols shake off their hierarchies and start a new life. Galactic hot dogs, burning bones, sly insects, sweet puppies and hand-crafted trails of fire join in a subversive symbolist symphony, evoking the arcane magic of nursery rhymes. In the alchemy of graphite transforming into an illusory vapour, haunted-happy entities emerge with their smirks, gravitating towards the moons of unknown planets. Gallov’s world-building is a precision activity, where the creator must tend to every last teardrop, fly-eye and volcanic ash particle, amping up the contrast between his childish, regressive iconography and the die-hard determination of the works’ technical development. In his volcanic lore, Gallov tells tales about the circular path of the individual, the ever-returning pursuit of balance in a world where ghoulish forces take turns at twisting the ribbons of our fate.

Peter is represented by longtermhandstand, Budapest.

Tiny Island Series is an ongoing collaboration of screen-printed editions illustrated by Jimmy Grima (@tinyislandstudio) and hand-pulled by Max Saliba (@islandofprint) in Nadur, Gozo.Max is a Maltese creative, illustrator, and printmaker from the island of Gozo, based between Gozo and Malta. He studied Graphic Design and Interactive Media at MCAST - The Malta College of Arts, Science & Technology, graduating in 2014.
Today, his practice spans branding, visual communication, and screen-printed editions. Beginning with painting in his early teens, Max later developed a self-taught approach to silkscreen printing that shapes much of his work.

Since 2019, he has run Island of Print, his basement studio in Gozo, where he produces solo screenprint editions and maintains a collaborative space for artists who want to create their own.Jimmy Grima is an artist and theatremaker. He creates drawings, graphics, texts, multimedia installations, theatre and events. Originally from Malta, a place where nature and its ghosts are often woven into everyday life, his work also explores the politics of memory, historiography, remembrance, and archiving. The vernacular and the margins are key elements in his focus.