Norbert Francis Attard
At our gift shop, Valletta Contemporary represents one of our artists: Norbert Francis Attard.
Norbert Francis Attard started as a self-taught painter and graphic artist before turning to installation art in 1998. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Malta in 1977, practicing the profession as architect for twenty years until 1996. He lived in Germany in 1978/1979 working with the firm ‘Licht in Raum’, directed by Johannes Dinnebier, one of Germany’s pioneers in light design.
Attard now focuses on a contemporary art practice that incorporates architecture, sculpture, photography, video and installation, to explore his major interests in places and their memories. He blurs the boundaries of these disciplines to incorporate the irreducible physicality of sites, and to explore their sedimented multiple layers of memory, treating them as a product of place, of social interaction, and as a generative process.
He is a founding member of stART (2002) - a group of Maltese contemporary artists; a committee member of the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts (2002-2005) and currently director of GOZOcontemporary since 2001 - an art space, offering self-directed residencies to international and local artists, on the island of Gozo



Floating Island I (1980)
22.7cm x 22.7cm on 35.5cm x 32.5cm
Edition: 120
God I
25.2cm x 25.4cm on 44cm x 34cm
Edition: 150
Contradictions (1978/1979)
30.4cm x 22.3cm on 42.7c x 33.7cm

Hierarchy (1978)
21.1cm x 21.3 cm on 30.5cm x 30.5cm
Edition: 200

Foundation (1982)
33cmx 23.9cm on 44cm x 34cm
Edition: 160

Compassion (1977/1978)
12.3cm x 13.8cm on 34.5cm x 24.cm
Edition: 120

Tower of Babel (1977)
22.5cm x 15.5cm on 35cm x 23cm
Edition: 120

After Mass (1977/1978)
21.6cm x 15.2cm on 43cm x 30cm
Edition: 100

Tile Coasters
Set of 4 Coasters
Engraving on 6mm Birch Plywood
10cm x 10cm
29 euros (unframed)

Tubes
Digital Print
48cm x 68cm
43 euros (unframed)

Options (1982)
24.1cm x 31.2cm on 44cm x 34cm
Edition: 180

Aliens by Nature (1981)
26.7cm x 25.3cm on 42cm x 34cm
Edition:120

Only One Man (1978)
21.4cm x 21.4 cm on 30.5cm x 30.5cm
Edition: 300

Family Tree (1980)
27cm x 41.4cm on 29.1cm x 44cm
Edition: 130

Affinity (1977)
27.4cm x 23cm on 36cm x 28cm
Edition: 40

Floating Island II
22.7cm x 22.7cm on 35.5cm x 32.5cm
Edition:90

Journey of Discovery (1978/1980)
21cm x 21cm on 35.5cm x 32.5cm
Edition: 130

Gallinar
Digital Print
48cm x 68cm
58 euros (unframed)

Saltpans (1982)
25cm x 33.2cm on 44cm x 34cm
Edition: 180

Gabriel's Sword (1982)
25.5cm x 25.5cm on 44cm x 34cm
Edition: 150

Compassion (1977/1978)
12.3cm x 13.8cm on 34.5cm x 24.cm
Edition: 120

Hypogeum (1980)
20cm x 15cm on 33cm x 27.5cm
Edition: 120