Family Memory: 3

Christabelle Azzopardi is a Malta-based oil painter whose practice combines a realist approach with abstract elements. Her work is rooted in figurative and personal influences, exploring the relationship between imagery, memory, and personal experience through layered oil painting.
 Azzopardi's artistic practice began with the influence of her mother, who first introduced her to art and continues to play an important role in her artistic development. Her practice focuses on discovering and working from personal photographs, using them as a starting point to explore different approaches to painting. She experiments with projection techniques to transform photographic references into expressive painted compositions.
 Personal and family imagery remains an important element within her work, allowing Azzopardi to explore how photographs can preserve, reconstruct, and reinterpret memories. Azzopardi is based in Malta and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from the MCAST Institute for the Creative Arts. She is currently pursuing a Master of Education in Art, with the aim of becoming an art teacher.
 Her work has been exhibited at the MCAST Open Day in 2022 and at the Spazju Kreattiv ICA Festival in 2025.