Besides pursuing a career in architecture, Lawrence Buttigieg is also an artist and freelance researcher; in 2014 he was awarde his PhD from Loughborough University. For more than two decades, the recurrent theme of Buttigieg's studio-work and resea...More
Besides pursuing a career in architecture, Lawrence Buttigieg is also an artist and freelance researcher; in 2014 he was awarde his PhD from Loughborough University. For more than two decades, the recurrent theme of Buttigieg's studio-work and research has essentially been the representation of womanhood. Consequent to his practice-based doctoral research, he creates box-assemblages--three-dimensional, body-themed, artefacts--through which his association with the female subject is taken to an acutely intense level. By means of these artworks, Buttigieg examines concepts of alterity and selfhood, and challenges the dominant role of male subjectivity in the western world. Furthermore, the box-assemblage not only allows him to explore the spiritual with the aim of exploiting that which is Other in the western theological tradition, namely God and the Divine, but also to draw links between the feminine and the transcendental.
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The Arts in Society
Odette Mulumbwa Chalwe
