About Matthew Robert Shirfield

Matthew Robert Shirfield (b. 2000) is a Maltese artist based in Malta. He attained a first-class degree in his B.A. (Hons.) in Fine Arts with History of Art from the University of Malta in 2021 which he followed with an M.Phil. from Trinity College Dublin for which he was awarded a distinction in 2022. He has advanced under several tutors, including the Maltese artist, Raymond Pitrè and the Maltese academic, Professor Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci. Shirfield has assisted in numerous projects including the Malta Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale, and he was one of the project managers for the 2023 Mdina Biennale and an assistant in the Changing Gear project. His art works can be found in several local and international private collections. He has also participated in numerous joint exhibitions, including the Malta Society of Arts annual members exhibition Perception (2019), the Strada Stretta Concept exhibition, Dante: Il Folle Volo, Vie Smarrite, La Prima Radice (2021), the University of Malta B.A. (Hons) Fine Arts project The artistic genre of ruins interpreted as the depletion of moral and aesthetic values, the University of Malta B.A. (Hons) Fine Arts project The Damned Sublime and he participated in Identity of an Island - Gozo: Art between Past and Present (2022). Recently, Shirfield’s works were published in an academic publication by Professor Schembri Bonaci titled, ‘Death Unto Boredom’ (2023). Shirfield is also an independent researcher who has written articles as well as academic papers pertaining to the twentieth and twenty-first century art.