Matyou Galea, b.1986 is a hyper-media sculptor and researcher working out of the island of Malta. Currently a member of staff at the Department of Digital Arts, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences within the University of Malta, where his research and practice focus primarily on the integration between software and sculpture. Galea works primarily in sound, video and the idea of social sculpture, locating the act of sculpture as an intervention in society rather than one in matter.

Galea exhibits his work regularly in his native Malta, and overseas. His sculptural interventions attempt to dismantle the idea of segregated disciplines within the arts, in order to create hyper-disciplinary, multi-modal, and constantly mutable situations and scenarios.

matyougalea@gmail.com

Exhibitions

Dorothea Space, Fontana Gozo September 2018

Generic Wedding

Triton Square, Valletta                                                                        September-October  2018

Science in the City 2018, Notte Bianca 2018

Mice, Carbon and Tritons

Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta                                                                      September  2018

Remembering the Future: Digital Arts in Malta 1989-2019

Valletta Contemporary, Valletta                                                       July  2018

Here & Now

School of Art, Valletta                                                                       April  2018

VAC – Visual Acoustics (VIVA2018)

ISIA Faenza, Italy                                                                             Sep-Oct 2017

Premio Nazzionale Del Disegnio

UN Human Rights Building, Geneve, Switzerland                          Feb-March, 2017

NRW Forum, Dusseldorf , Germany                                                 March-April, 2017

Leeuwarden, Town Hall, The Netherlands                                      April-May, 2017

Villa Claudia, Vorarlberg, Austria                                                   July-August 2017

IN TRANSIT

Greenwich University, London                                                         November 2016

Point and Shoot (Weapons of Mass Distraction Series)

Universidade Lusofona Lisboa, Lisbon                                           October 2016

Sculptural Situation for Articulated Lamp

Gallery Last Touch, Mosta                                                              August 2016

On the Rocks (Constructed situation for 3D Printer, Lamp and Frozen Evidence of Civilization on an Over Populated Island)

Dar id Djalogu, Safi                                                                        November 2015

Percezzjoni

St. James Cavalier, Valletta                                                          June 2015

Axra

Architecture Project (AP) Valletta                                                January 2015

BYE BYE BIRDies

Malta,House, Brussels                                                                     November 2014

Divergent Thinkers

Blitz, Valletta                                                                                   August 2014

Divergent Thinkers 03

Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta                              August 2014   

The Bieganski Art Festival, WW1 Memorial Exhibition

Gallery Last Touch, Mosta                                                             May 2014

XiV

Blitz, St Lucy Street Valletta                                                         September 2013

Human

MCAST IAD, Targa Gap, Mosta                                                                               June 2013

Revolution, End Of Year exhibition

MCAST IAD, Targa Gap, Mosta                                                                               July 2012

Refreshments Provided, End Of Year exhibition

Malta Fairs &Conventions Centre (MFCC), Ta Qali November 2011

Kwalita Malta (Maltese Cultural Expo)

Old University Building, Valletta                                                 October 2011

Malta Design Week

MCAST IAD, Targa Gap, Mosta                                                                               July 2011

Flavors, End Of Year exhibition

Bornholm Art Museum, Bornholm, Denmark                             September 2010

European Ceramic Context 2010

St James Cavalier, Valletta                                                         July 2010

MCAST IAD End Of Year Exhibition

Public Works and Collaborative Projects

Ministry For Education and Employment, Floriana  September 2012

Education Monument

Mild Steel  380 x 180cm (approx. excluding base)

Permanent sculpture

St Anne’s Square, Sliema                                                              April 2012

Installation for Ghanafest

Mild Steel and Textiles (Dimensions various)

Collaborative Project (temporary)

Presidents Palace, Verdala                                                          December 2011

Nativity Crib

Mixed Media

Collaborative project (temporary)

MCAST Library, Mcast Main Campus, Corradino                       January 2010

Three of Knowledge

Ceramic Mural 800 x 250 cm

Collaborative Project (permanent)

President’s Palace, Valletta                                                          December 2009

Nativity Crib

Plaster of Paris 400 x180 cm

Collaborative Project (temporary) 

Papers and Essays

Soft(ware) Sculpture: Spatial and Temporal Interventions in Audio-Visual Media – Ph.D. Thesis, 2018, University of Malta

Soft Sculpture – DRHA Conference, 2018, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta.

Software//Sculpture – MaKS Research Seminar, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, 2018, University of Malta. 

Sculpting Sound Waves, Spatially Aware Instruments and Video Sculpture - Sound-Image Symposium, 2016 University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

Sculpting Sound - International Conference Stereo and Immersive Media, 2016, Lisbon, Portugal.    

Aural Representation Systems - MFA Dissertation, 2015, University of Malta.      

The Shape of Sound – BA(Hons) Dissertation, 2013, Malta College for Art, Science And Technology (MCAST).                                                       

matyougalea@gmail.com