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Nadège Renée Cassar x Alfie Gatt

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Nadège Renée Cassar is an established contemporary jewellery artist whose practice combines traditional craftsmanship with modern design. Her work explores identity, storytelling and artistic expression through jewellery, bringing artisanal techniques into a contemporary creative language.
Alfie Gatt is an award-winning Maltese artist whose work blends realism with surrealist narratives. Working especially in watercolour and oil, he explores Maltese culture, architecture and everyday life through a distinctive visual language.

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Tamar Durglisvili

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Tamar Durglisvili is a self-taught Georgian designer whose creativity is rooted in family traditions, human relationships and an appreciation for handmade craftsmanship. Her work combines traditional Georgian ornamentation with contemporary design, placing the creative process at the heart of her practice. Working extensively with leather, Tamar revives traditional leather-sewing techniques in Sighnaghi while exploring modern approaches to form and decoration. Her distinctive style combines carefully selected colours with traditional and contemporary motifs. She presents her creations under her own brand and has participated in exhibitions and festivals in Georgia and internationally, including Greece, Germany and Italy.

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Zelda designs

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Zelda designs is a Maltese brand creating handcrafted jewellery and accessories that merge textile craftsmanship with contemporary design. Each piece is individually constructed using developed hand techniques, combining fibres, metals and embellishments into sculptural compositions. Rooted in slow-fashion principles, the brand values intentional making, durability and individuality over mass production. Its collections reinterpret familiar textile processes through a modern design language, transforming materials into distinctive wearable objects that celebrate craftsmanship, personal expression and the evolving dialogue between heritage and contemporary design.

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James Dimech

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James Dimech is a Maltese paper artist and designer whose practice intersects sculpture, fashion, architecture and craftsmanship. Following three decades in interior architecture, he began exploring paper as an artistic medium in 2016. Through folding, pleating, manipulation and unconventional construction techniques, James transforms this fragile material into complex sculptural forms. His work has been exhibited internationally and recognised through several awards, including the Lucca Biennale Cartasia Achievement Award. Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches paper manipulation, sharing and developing the craftsmanship at the heart of his work.