As Allura wins an award in the creative category of the Malta Innovation Awards for its ‘open studios,’ Laura Swale explains the concept as a “twist on the traditional gallery format, which has the potential to attract a more mainstream audience because of its informality, the face-time with the artist, the chance to see the making process and the reduced emphasis on the price tag.”
The Malta Innovation Awards 2017
Laura is a visual artist, writer and entrepreneur from the UK, with a background in arts education, cultural event-planning and curatorial work. She is the founder of Allura, a multi-award-winning arts organisation based in Malta, established to showcase creative talent and bring it to a global audience. Laura writes visual Arts and cultural content for the Times of Malta and the Malta Independent, she is a judge on the panels of several art prizes and a regular guest speaker at the University of Malta. Formerly a secondary school art teacher and head of department of fifteen years, she is also a practising artist, regularly exhibiting and selling her work.
