NEAL CAMILLERI
Neal Camilleri, born 1999, is a Maltese born ceramic and sculptural artist working between Malta and London. His practice explores memory and emotional landscapes through objects that feel at once ancient and newly imagined, translating architectural rhythm and ornament into vibrant, tactile form.
Working across porcelain, glazed ceramics, and glazed parian, alongside painting and mixed media sculpture, Camilleri treats surface as a site of storytelling. Pattern becomes a kind of quiet architecture, built through repeated marks and tessellated skins that recall mosaic and fragment, while colour acts as an emotional register, creating works that are uplifting and resonant, playful yet precise. All info for selected artwork All info for selected artwork
Porcelain and clay works that fuse architectural pattern with a playful surrealism, using vivid colour and tactile surface to hold memory, emotion, and place.
His objects often hover between vessel and figure, guided by a quietly surreal sensibility that turns familiar archetypes into characters, containers, and companions. Works such as Brassy and Stone hut show this approach through porcelain forms with pronounced presence, while Twin Relationship expands the language into an architectural scale. All info for selected artwork All info for selected artwork All info for selected artwork
Camilleri’s studio process begins with everyday moments, conversations, and fleeting observations, then moves through experimentation until the work arrives at its final mood. In parallel, he produces intimate oil on canvas paintings, including the series I took the rock with me, currently on view at Marie gallery 5, extending his inquiry into memory and place through quiet scenes and coastal light. All info for selected artwork
He studied ceramics at Central Saint Martins and has exhibited internationally in London, Ireland, New York City, and Malta.
Across sculpture and painting, Camilleri returns to the same premise, that form can behave like memory, accumulating, shifting, and quietly brightening the rooms it enters.
