Art students express their concerns and interests

Aprille Zammit is a swimming fanatic and Steve Portera loves to play basketball and both elements feature in their colourful artwork, which involves not just painting but sculptural elements using a variety of materials.

Tori Pedersen paints and creates works on pieces of wood, often using the male portrait figure as her image source.

Elena Mustakova is passionate about photography and has taken “colour out of context” as a theme as well as a source of imagery for other work.

Andrej Perucica is interested in identity; his own and that of other cultures and how all can have similar aspirations and concerns as demonstrated through his work with masks and fortune predictions.

Ivan Bondarenko lives on a yacht and has travelled extensively and his portrait centres around this element of his life.

Natasa Perucica uses the unusual combination of architecture and motion in a series of paintings where she has been influenced by her home city in Serbia and the work of Raol Dufy.

Works by 18-year-old International Baccalaureate students, who have been developing a body of artwork over the past two years, will be on display between today and Friday in an exhibition mounted by Verdala International School at the Malta Institute of Management, in Pembroke.

A school spokesman explained that the work done by the students developed their personal concerns and interests, investigating themselves and the world that surrounded everybody.

The International Baccalaureate qualification is taken in the students’ senior year (grade 12) and their examination assessment takes the form of an interview by external examiner Raphael Vella.