As voting opens in the Sovereign Student Art Prize for Malta and Gozo, Laura Swale talks to Sovereign Group Malta CEO Stephen Griffiths for The Sunday Times of Malta about the competition to find Malta’s most promising teenage artists.
Crop of The Little Joys by Paraskovia Podorvana, G.F. Abela Junior College
Laura is a visual artist, writer and entrepreneur from the UK, with a background in arts education, cultural event-planning and curatorial work. She is the founder of Allura, a multi-award-winning arts organisation based in Malta, established to showcase creative talent and bring it to a global audience. Laura writes visual Arts and cultural content for the Times of Malta and the Malta Independent, she is a judge on the panels of several art prizes and a regular guest speaker at the University of Malta. Formerly a secondary school art teacher and head of department of fifteen years, she is also a practising artist, regularly exhibiting and selling her work.
