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 PrizeQuadrant Gallery VIC

2025 January, Small Works Art PrizeBrunswick Street Gallery VIC

2024 December, Small Works Art PrizeOff the Kerb Gallery VIC

2024 December, PIPESPink Ember Studio VIC

2024 October, Exhibition for AntsUnassigned Gallery VIC

2024 August, SanctuaryBrunswick Street Gallery VIC

2023 September, Pieces of SpringBridge 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