Tony Briffa (artist)

Tony Briffa (born 1959) is a Maltese artist currently living and working in Denmark since 2002.

Education

Following his studies in Malta in the late 1970s in drawing, painting and ceramics, Briffa was awarded the Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship in Arts & Crafts in 1995. One of his mentors was Maltese ceramic artist Gabriel Caruana. Other mentors throughout his career include Les Blakebrough (Australia), Peter Callas (USA), Nina Hole (Denmark), Robin Hopper (Canada), Janet Mansfield (Australia), Fred Olsen (USA).[1][2]

Briffa was a visiting scholar at the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania in Australia and also taught ceramics at the School of Arts and Crafts at Tarġa Gap, Mosta, Malta, which was renamed Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology in 2001.

gollark: Wait, presupposes that *god* can do that (which is required if said god is omnipotent), or that *people* can get future information?
gollark: Oh, and if you can get answers on yes/no questions about the future that also allows you to transmit information backward through time, obviously.
gollark: If you could tell the future that way, there would already be autodivinators (or, if you can't do that, many minimum-wage people flipping coins) used for picking stocks.
gollark: (if it's *not*, then the chance of getting two heads or two tails is... a half, anyway)
gollark: *can't tell if bizarre joke or not*

References
  1. Vella, Victor (30 July 2009). "Fugue but not escape". Times of Malta. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  2. "Tony Briffa". Absolute Arts. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
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