About the artist
Mario Agius (b. 1956) studied sculpture and design with the late Maltese artists Anton Agius and Harry Alden and furthered his studies in the UK with sculptor Ian Norbury. Juginder Lamba, a sculptor of international repute described Mario’s works as if they ‘oozed with humanity and the human condition in a truly universal sense’
Agius’s sculptures are in constant dialogue with our surroundings and aim to create connections and parallelisms between human life and drama expressed with natural materials such as olive trunks, Carrara marble and Gozo hardstone. He has exhibited his works both locally and internationally and his sculptures are found in private collections worldwide. Some of his international exhibitions included collective shows organised by the British Woodcarvers Association in the UK and by the Marzi Art International Gallery in Hamburg, Germany and other collective shows in Gotland in Sweden and in the city of Nantes in France.
Two of his large-scale public sculptures are exhibited permanently in Beesle – Holland where he sculpted a 3.5 metre St George from one wooden trunk and at the Mġarr Terminal in Gozo where he has the sculpture named ‘Komunita’ which was selected through a national competition.
Location
Ħamet roundabout, Triq ta' Ħamet, Xagħra
