
About the Artist
Tarcis Fenech is a queer, chronically ill artist living and working on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Their artistic practice combines their fascination with nature, death, and spirituality. Fenech’s body of work is an attempt to resurrect and reimagine extinct and surviving Maltese traditions both within and beside Christian norms, dealing with the grief that comes from living on the fringes of the diasporic community of a colonised culture.
Fenech honours the moulded remains of limited deceased creatures to infuse their work with texture and ritual. They create highly dynamic glazed earthenware sculptures that evoke ancient oceanic religions, referencing biological matter and ritualistic symbolism.
“My work is made both emotionally and physically painfully, birthing an otherworldly yet distinctly familiar collection of sacred forms.”
Group Exhibitions
2025 March, Feel Good Art Prize, Quadrant Gallery VIC
2025 January, Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery VIC
2024 December, Small Works Art Prize, Off the Kerb Gallery VIC
2024 December, PIPES, Pink Ember Studio VIC
2024 October, Exhibition for Ants, Unassigned Gallery VIC
2024 August, Sanctuary, Brunswick Street Gallery VIC
2023 September, Pieces of Spring, Bridge Darebin VIC
Awards
2024 People's Choice Award 2nd Place, Exhibition for Ants, Unassigned Gallery VIC
Publications
2025 Kahf Magazine – Issue II: Architecture
Teaching
2024 - 2025 Hand Building with Clay, Pink Ember Studio
2024 Creative Growth and Development, Pink Ember Studio
Artistic Development
2021 - 2024 Ceramics, Bridge Darebin
2021 Drawing: Anatomy, Monash University
2020 Drawing: The Body, Monash University
2020 Drawing: Introduction, Monash University
Education
2021 Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), Monash University
Membership
2024 - 2025 Pink Ember Studio
2024 - 2025 Craft Victoria