Kristina Zammit Endrich has been awarded an MA with distinction in Christianity and the Arts, a unique programme offered by the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London, in association with the National Gallery in London.
Under the mentorship of Prof. Ben Quash, Zammit Endrich and a handful of other students on the MA were allowed unparalleled access to the resources of the National Gallery, where they immersed themselves in the art history and theological dimensions of Christian art and related their findings and conclusions to the contemporary world.
After finding herself fascinated with the concept of devotional space and the dynamics between who and what inhabits it, she chose St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, the conventual church of the Order of St John, as a case study for a paper on the subject. This, in turn, further cemented her decision to focus on the function of particular images in a devotional space as the subject for her final dissertation.
In her dissertation, entitled ‘The devotional function and significance of images of The Annunciation in Italian Renaissance painting’, Zammit Endrich delves into Marian iconography, a visual vernacular intricately woven into the religio-artistic identity of the Maltese islands.
She currently lives in Saskatoon, Canada, where she works as worship director at C3 Church Saskatoon, and guest lectures at St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan.
Ms Zammit Endrich carried out her MA after she was awarded a Malta Arts Scholarship financed by the government.