Nina Gerada, portrait by Lisa Attard
Nina Gerada is a Maltese artist who works with clay, landscape, and the body to explore embodiment. Her processes are intuitive and durational. She makes associations between multitudes of references: figurative, prehistoric, geological, make-shift. In Gerada’s work the ageing, changing body is often likened to weathering landscapes. She searches for belonging in place and across generations.
Born in Malta in 1983, she moved to London where she studied art, design and architecture. Her approach to making is influenced by the various fields of design in which she has worked – architecture, urban design and production design for film. Operating at vastly different scales and timeframes, from walking entire islands, to mapping and sculpting tiny hand-held figurines. After 22 years abroad, she returned to Malta, and this homecoming has become a central focus in her work.
EXHIBITIONS
What Moves Between Us, Axis Gallery, Malta, September 2026
Malta Biennale, Citadella, Gozo, Malta, March – May 2026
Variations of Emergence, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, December 2025
Frammenti, solo exhibition, Thrown Contemporary, London, November 2024
Clay/ Craft/ Concept, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, August – September 2024
So I Cannot Loose My Way, Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, July – August 2024
Debut: Inaugural open, &Gallery, Edinburgh, April 2024
Malta Biennale, Grandmaster Palace, Valletta, March – May 2024
Fresh, British Ceramics Biennal, All Saints Church Hanley, September - November 2023
Collect 2023, Somerset House, London. Represented by Thrown Contemporary.
Extended Commentary, The Daphne Festival, St. John’s Church London, October 2022.
Cartography of Care, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, October 2022.
Collect 2022, Somerset House, London. Represented by Thrown Contemporary.
The Winter Exhibition, Thrown Contemporary, London, UK, November - December 2021
Leach 101, London Craft Week, 61 Southwark Street, London UK, October 2021
The Winter Exhibition, Thrown Contemporary, London, UK, November - December 2020
Breasts, Asymmetry & Fashion, Hermitage Moorings Pierhouse, London, UK, October 2019
Multiples, Lennon Gallery, Edinburgh, October 2018
Exploring the Political Agency of Mapping and Maps, UCL, London, UK, September 2012
TALKS / WORKSHOPS / BOOKS
#WIP PechaKucha, Valletta Design Cluster, Malta. May 2026 – ongoing
No Other Motherland, Church of St Catherine of Italy, Valletta, Malta. April 2026
Through Her Eyes, Valletta Design Cluster, Valletta, Malta. July 2025
Divergent Perspectives, Malta Society of Art, Valletta, Malta. September 2024
My Body in My Hands, Sam Lucas & Nick Grellier. May 2024.
Goddess Making Workshop. Hagar Qim Temples, Malta. April 2024
Cosmo-poetic Figurations, MUZA, Valletta, Malta. April 2024
Breasts, Asymmetry & Fashion, Hermitage Pier-house, London, UK. October 2019
Ad-Hoc Drawing Workshop, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK. December 2012
Exploring the Political Agency of Mapping and Maps, UCL, London, UK. September 2012
We Must Kill the Father, London Metropolitan University, London, UK. March 2011
Uncommon Malta & Gozo, Miranda Publishers, Emma Mattei. May 2011
PRESS & MEDIA
April 2026: Times of Malta, Artist Nina Gerada to Reflect on Her Complex Relationship with Malta
April 2026: Times of Malta, Space, Belonging and the Malta Biennale
December 2025: Times of Malta, Artist Residency Programme by MSA and Arts Council Malta comes to an end; Artists Martina Georgina and Nina Gerada share elements of their extensive research process in final event
January 2025: Ceramics Monthly, Unpredictability and Balance: The Work of Nina Gerada, Tim Saunders
April 2024: Malta Biennale; A celebration of contemporary art, history and heritage on the islands of Malta, Edel Cassidy
April 2024: Dazed Digital: The emerging artists exploring resistance in the Mediterranean; These are the artists you need to know from the recent Malta Biennale, Claire Marie Healy
March 2024: Fad Magazine, Malta Biennale 2024 – Review, Tabish Khan
March 2024: Art Dependence, Malta's First Art Biennale opened, and it is Impressive
December 2023: ArtForum, Details for First Ever Malta Biennale Announced
December 2023: Art Review: Malta Gets its First Biennale
July 2021: Wired Magazine, Feature Cover
Jan 2021: Ceramics Review: New Talent
EDUCATION
2018, HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING FELLOW, FHEA,
Advance HE, First floor, Napier House, 24 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6AZ
2009 – 2011, POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARCHITECTURE, (First Class Hons)
The Cass, London Metropolitan University, London, UK.
2003 – 2006, UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE,
Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK.
2002 – 2003, FOUNDATION COURSE IN ART AND DESIGN, CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, University of the Arts London, UK.
TEACHING
2013 – 2020, DESIGN TUTOR – FIRST YEAR ARCHITECTURE,
London Metropolitan University, London, UK.
2014 – 2020, DESIGN TUTOR – FOUNDATION IN SPATIAL DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE,
London Metropolitan University, London, UK.
2014 – 2015, DESIGN TUTOR – DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE,
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.
FILMS, PRODUCTION DESIGN
June 2015 – October 2015
ART DIRECTOR MALTA, ‘Débarquement Immédiat’
November 2012 – April 2013
PRODUCTION DESIGNER + ART DIRECTOR, ‘Simshar’
August 2010 – September 2010
PRODUCTION DESIGNER, Kukumajsa Productions, Malta.
SELECTED ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN
February 2013 – 2015
DESIGN STRATEGY CONSULTANT, Freehaus, London, UK.
July 2011 – February 2013
ASSOCIATE URBAN DESIGNER & PROJECT COORDINATOR, Publica Associates, London, UK.
June 2011 – July 2011
PROJECT MANAGER & DESIGNER, Redundant Architects Recreation Association (RARA) + The Mill, London, UK.
November 2006,
FREELANCE ILLUSTRATOR, Paradigm, Conrad Shawcross, London, UK.