Monica Spitera, another image

Monica Spitera, a Maltese artist

Symbolic Imagery of Archaie Gems - Fertility and Creativity. A series of works by Monica Spiteri, a Maltese artist. These 40 pieces are inspired by arhaeological heritage and culture.

Site has a good map of the exhibits.

National Museum of Archaeology of Malta in Valletta.
Site has a good map of the exhibits.

or visit the Museum the links list.

Interesting Malta

Lots or interesting and relevant brochures for downloading
which Don found for us.

You can get info on the islands in general, walks, beaches,
museums, historic sites, culture and the list goes on.

thanks Don

For those that like to dive!

For diving enthusiasts, Malta's waters hold a Bleinheim bomber, a submarine, various other wrecks, natural caves and a large variety of sealife. Tour companies offer single dive, multiple dive and training options.

Malta Archaeology

Another link to overview of the geological sites in Malta which may be of interest to the 'Inquirers'.

Valletta - A 16th Century City

All about Valetta. Great overview of the sites and things to see and do.
rika

All Malta is just one big film-set for Spielberg’s Munich

I think this link would be of interest to lots of our participants

VJ

Cerridwen Salon for the Multi-Arts

Cerridwen is the name of the Celtic Goddess who presided over the sacred cauldron of wisdom and inspiration. These salons are centered on particular themes: Women's Myth and Ritual, Ripening (Aging), and Women and Earth Ecology. They present full programs of works by women in different artistic media of expression relating to the same theme.

An brief exerpt from the letter linked in the post title. Read the entire letter and follow their links through for more history and information on the Cerridwen Salon.

www.usc.edu/isd/archives/womens_salons/background/radcliffe_letter1.html

The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons

An interesting article on the history of salons.

About St James Cavalier

If you would like to know more about the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity please follow the link to the website and consider subscribing to their newsletter. It will keep you posted about all the interesting things going on at the centre.

VJane Gordon's exhibition at the Cavalier Centre will be opening during the i5 Malta Inquiry.

Surfaces and Rapture_the hybrid prints

Installation complete March 24 2006

Opening March 31 2006

Closing April 28 2006

These works spring from an intimate embodied experience of knowing and touching Canadian Stone. They are large 40 x 52 inch layered images on paper beginning with lithographs or relief prints from Niagara Escarpment limestone and drawings of Canadian Shield precambrian rock. She has added to these prints: photo documentation of her outdoor works and interventions, texts familiar and invented, sketchbook studies, records of her travels from the escarpment to the shield and back and a suggestion of satellite touches from above as they orbit over the vast geography of the Canadian landscape.

Dual Pricing of Goods

This article may be of interest to those of you travelling
with i5 to Malta this spring.

Gozo’s unique archaeological treasures to return home

more from The Malta Independent Online.

Safeguarding Malta's Heritage

Another interesting article discovered by VJane.

Scenes from Malta

Check out this link – came across it today – whets the appetite
Don

Happy Malta

Article VJane found in her daily Malta scan.

Inquiry Collective Members

V. Jane Gordon, an award-winning artist, curator, writer and teacher was educated at Queen's University and SGW Concordia University obtaining a Master's degree in painting and drawing with a specialty in Arts Education. Her current artistic production deals with the body - in the body's curving envelope of space. She continues to examine history, recent or ancient, cultural and political and explores her human state - both natural and constructed, searching for ways to connect both the cultural and embodied experience of the lived life. Her artistic production includes painting and drawing, gallery based and landscape based installation, landscape and urban interventions, photo-documentation, and digitally layered works and projections.

Her Malta inquiry project entitled, "two and five, the cultural implications of bilateral symmetry" grounds her work in the body's presence and allows for related conceptual investigations into a broad range of subjects from ancient temples to contemporary advertising banners.

Educated at the University of Guelph, Sophie Edwards is an emerging artist/writer and a community animator/activist in the Manitoulin-La Cloche region of Northern Ontario. She has won numerous awards for her work, and been invited to exhibit with group and solo shows. Her work encompasses site installation, intervention, painting and multi-media. Through inquiries an emerging language of motherhood explains the parameters of "home" and merges with conflicting desires to be held within this circle and to simultaneously withdraw from it.

In Sophie’s inquiry project, entitled Shield and Temple, Canada’s Precambrian Shield and the prehistoric temples of Malta are places for exploration of the wildness of landscape and the culture of archaeology, respectively. Works will integrate site intervention with drawing, photography text and installation.

Gerald Allain graduated from Ryerson University in Photography and works as a freelance photographer. He has a finely-honed and painterly sensibility behind the lens. His heritage in the villages of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula first fueled his passion for photography and he still carries a strong attachment to the weathered, antic, accidental presence of the beautiful in the historic settlements of that region.

His Malta Inquiry project, "Creating in your yard," is an exploration of this highly constructed personal (haptic) space in a variety of historic human habitations. Using digital photography and video Gerald can make magic appear in the most mundane and ordinary location, allowing curiosities to reveal themselves from his "intimate distance"

Don Gordon was educated as an Engineer at Queen's University and as a photographer at the Three Schools. His photographic work is often black and white concentrating on the nuances of values in the medium. In the course of his engineering life he has routinely documented the progress of developing architectural and technical design projects as they have come into being. His inquiry project "Patch and Make Good" is an outgrowth of this documentary practice as it relates to his knowledge of buildings and architecture and his photographic practice using greyscale images. Buildings are seen as processes. These processes are fueled by time and implemented by the bodies that inhabit structures and adapt them for consecutive purposes and new uses.

His photographic work for the Malta Inquiry project will seek out and document the small details that add up to a record of human habitation from prehistoric time onward. Works will integrate image and text in a way that facilitates cultural commentary on contemporary experience.