Shaun Grech- Gallery

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Showtime: Times of Malta 2005

It looks very much as though the Grech family is currently making a concerted bid for the title of Malta's first family of the arts. Just lately Herman has directed a play, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, for the MADC at St James. Charlotte has contributed this month's Been There... Seen that... to Showtime. Another brother Alex was seen last April in Masquerade's production of The Odd Couple. And now another Grech male sibling, Shaun, is muscling in on the arts scene.

Young artist Shaun Grech is however, very much his own man. His subjects are figures... people, but his style is unique. He keeps his own counsel and paints a variety of singular "portraits", which challenge the viewer to discard the accepted norms of figure painting and abandon themselves to Shaun's view of humanity.

To say that some of these images are disturbing is a considerable under-statement. Staring eyes, large red mouths and an overall abstract feel, all contribute to a series of offbeat, yet strangely compelling paintings.

Shaun is currently exhibiting his work at a fairly new gallery, 33 Melita Street, Valletta. The exhibition closes on February 12.

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