Alfred Chircop, a Maltese artist, attended the Malta School of Art, the Accademia Pietro Vannucci in Perugia, Bath Academy of Art at Corsham UK and Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome.His work shows development through the years which ranges from figurative to abstract. He has proved his mastery in many techniques in the media he uses in his work such as paintings, drawings, warercolours, etchings and aquatints, linocuts, pen and wash and monoprints. He had been exhibiting his work indipendantly since 1960 in Malta and abroad and has participated in many collective exhibitions in Malta and abroad which had his work highly accliamed by local and foreign critics. Chircop also had a teaching career in Malta at which he taught different levels in schools, showing great ability in creating great awareness and creativity at primary, secondary, sixth form and at the Faculty of Architecture in Malta where he spent his last years teaching as a Senior Lecturer teaching visual education and design. In 1990 Chrircop was awarded the Gold Medal Premio Citta di Valletta and won first prize in painting and watercolour in the first Malta International Biennale in 1995. In 1998, he was then honored with the National Order of Merit, M.O.M. in recognition of his contribution to Art in Malta.When Malta joined the E.U. in 2004, he was invited by the council of Europe to represent Malta with a one-man exhibition of his paintings, which then moved to Paris for the same reason; representing Malta. During the same time, he participated in the Salon International of the City of La Rochelle in France where he was awarded the Grand Prix and the Drand Medal of the city of La Rochelle, being the only artist who was doubly awarded, and was also awarded the Prix Groupama at the Salon International de Nantes. In 2005 he managed to have a one-man exhibition in Berlin, at the Palace Hotel in the middle of the city. Chircop represents Malta in the Hope and Optimism Portfolio, a Global art project where Heynits Castle Art Centre in Namibia displays his work. His works of art are found in both private and public collections in Malta and Abroad.
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www.alfredchircop.com/about.html - 08.04.2013.
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