Mark Sagona

MARK SAGONA, Ph.D., is the Head of the Department of Art and Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, where he lectures in Fine Arts and Art History. He is a practising visual artist, academic, art historian and curator. Over the years, his art has moved on to research, interpret and explore a wide array of themes in a distinct personal timbre which combines boldness of expression, the sensuality of colour and the spirituality of light. The increased mixed-media experimentation with light and colour has become a dominant concern for the artist, both in his figurative and abstract works. His powerful abstracts find their roots in his early figurative and landscape compositions but have been increasingly invested with a spiritual dimension that is often the result of the artist’s state of mind at a given moment in time. In 2022, he curated ‘Identity of an Island’, a landmark exhibition of contemporary art held at Teatru Astra in Gozo.