Anna Calleja (b.1997) is a Maltese artist. Calleja’s work draws from her personal experience a vision of a world suspended between uncertainty, longing and the distance of memory. Her interest lies in dualities; the tension and dissonance between comfort and melancholy, isolation and connection, love and grief. Calleja’s painting technique is reflective of this in its reliance on a tentative balance between order and disorder in the paint surface.
The images begin from her personal archive; both real and constructed, cataloguing places held as home for a moment. Within her paintings, she connects to the current of art history via a dialog with what came before; she transforms recurring archetypes, catholic and patriarchal motifs within the language of figurative painting and employs them in an analysis of the present.
Calleja studied Fine Art at Falmouth University and has
since exhibited internationally in London, Paris, Berlin, New York City, and Dallas. In 2022, she was awarded the Premju Ghal-Arti for Best Young Artist by Arts Council Malta.
Lyndsey Ingram
23 January - 21 March 2025
Lyndsey Ingram, 20 Bourdon St, London W1K 3PJ
​
Artists: Miles Aldridge, Frank Auerbach, Sara Berman, Martha Beaumont, Simon Bussy, Gareth Cadwallader, Anna Calleja, Vija Celmins, Fred Clark, Camilla Engstrom, Lucian Freud, Maggi Hambling, Tom Hammick, David Hockney, Esme Hodsoll, Gwen John, Lee Johnson, Kasmin, Roy Lichtenstein, Eugenie Livanos, John Martin, Henri Matisse, Ishbel Meyerscough, Suzy Murphy, C.R.W. Nevinson, Cristián Fernández Ocampo, Pablo Picasso, Lucy Sparrow, Paula Rego, Katy Stubbs, Weegee, James A. McNeill Whistler, Anne-Laure Zevi.
Last Night I Dreamt of Manderley
Curated by Daniel Malarkey
Alison Jacques
24 January – 8 March 2025
22 Cork Street
London W1S 3NG
Artists: Theodora Allen; Santi Alleruzzo; Jean-Marie Appriou; Sophie Barber; Ernie Barnes; Jerzy BereÅ›; Lewis Brander; Roger Brown; Cornel BrudaÅŸcu; Polina Barskaya; Anna Calleja; Tancredi di Carcaci; Leonora Carrington; Diana Cepleanu; Leonardo Devito; Maeve Gilmore; Ian Godfrey; Krzysztof Grzybacz; Maggi Hambling; Sheila Hicks; Goro Kakei; Nicola L.; Eleanor Lakelin; Graham Little; Patrizio di Massimo; Quentin James McCaffrey; Chidinma Nnoli; Gordon Parks; Mervyn Peake; Tom Schneider; Monica Sjöö; Richard Slee; Cynthia Talmadge; Dorothea Tanning; Lenore Tawney; Mariana Varela and Aleksandra Waliszewska.
