statement.
Nina Gerada’s work remembers languages, archaeological digs, city maps and the female form. She begins by carving and tearing clay, exposing fault lines. A subtractive rather than additive process, echoing the carved limestone spaces of her homeland. These broad actions are combined with intricately tooled forms that skirt close to figurative imaginings of the megalithic temples of Malta. She slices her sculptures into smaller sections. They are contemplatively recomposed, searching for patterns and connections across multiple scales. Through this process she explores her heritage and post-colonial identity alongside her experience as a migrant and mother in the UK.
biography.
Nina Gerada is a Maltese artist, designer and teacher. She is a graduate of London Metropolitan University (2011), The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2006), Chelsea College of Art (2003) and is a Higher Education Teaching Fellow (2018).
Gerada has been selected to exhibit at the British Ceramics Biennale Fresh 2023. She is represented by Thrown Contemporary Gallery and has exhibited at Collect 2022 and 2023 with them. Amongst other exhibitions, Gerada has exhibited at London Craft Week (2021) and as part of The Daphne Festival (2022) commemorating the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. She has collaborated with The Bbook Project and exhibited at ‘Let’s Talk Breast’. Gerada is a member of Spilt Milk Gallery a collective of artist mothers and has participated in ‘Maternochronics’ (2021) and ‘Cartography of Care’ (2022) both exploring themes of parenting and care through art.
Her ‘Nollini’ sculptures were featured in Wired Magazine (2021). In her work as a Production Designer on the feature film ‘Simshar’, Gerada won the Best Production Design Award at the Bridges International Film Festival (2014). She is currently collaborating with Caz Hildebrand and a brick works to develop large public sculptures.