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 Sina Farrugia was born and educated in Malta. She graduated with distinction from Mater Admirabilis College of Education in 1971. 
She studied Art at the Malta School of Art and Ceramics at the Malta School for Craftsmen. She has been a teacher of art and ceramics since 1971 in local government schools and is now subject co-ordinator for art with the Education Division. Meanwhile she is still teaches at Sir Luigi Preziosi Area Secondary School in St. Andrews. 
In 1984 Sina set up her own Ceramic studio and continued to study ceramics in England where she worked with many potters specialising in different areas and techniques of the craft. 
She is a member of the Malta society of Arts Manufacture and Commerce. 
Sina has exhibited her work Malta, Germany, Greece and America. 

Work 
Sina’ s work is of an expressive nature. Her fascination with the vessel form started her on the exploratory journey of this medium .Her love of sculpture strengthened the respect she had for clay, which itself offers such possibilities as a sculptural medium.  
Her work of the seventies was mostly related to vessels, both thrown and handbuilt.  Eventually the nature of the work took a more personal vein, becoming more expressive. 
 She learnt to appreciate the vessel form through her contact with Ganni Bonnici and her English tutors. Her Maltese tutor, Gabriel Caruana, showed her the joy of the free-style sculptural approach favoured by the Italian school of Ceramica d’Arte in Faenza. Now Sina’s work is hand built, often combining vessel-forming techniques with modelling and sculptural ones. She also makes murals and plaques. 

Firing  
The work is fired in an electric kiln at earthenware temperatures. Some of it is fired many times and various glazing techniques may be used on the same piece until the desired effect is achieved.  
Some of the work is Raku fired on the roof of Sina’s house in a home-made top-hat kiln. 
 

Education 
St Louis Grammar School, Sliema, Malta   
1963-1968  Drawing and Painting  
Teachers  Margaret Chircop  
                 Vincent Apap  

Malta School of Art  
1967-1969  Drawing and Painting   
Tutors  Harry Alden   
            Esprit Barthet  
            Fr. Marius  Zerafa  

Mater Admirabilis College of Education 
1969-1971  Course in Teaching 

Targa Gap School for crafts. Mosta,  Malta  
 1971-1991 Ceramics Course:  
Throwing, Handbuilding, Sculpture, Glazing and Firing Techniques  
Tutors:  Granni Bonnici  
              Neville Ferry  
              Gabriel Caruana  

Wenford Bridge Pottery, Bodmin, Cornwall : 
 1988 and 1989  Course in Traditional English Pottery  
Tutor: Seth Cardew  

Brunel University, Uxbridge: 

1990 Course in Clay and Glaze Composition   
Tutor: Harry Horlock Stringer  

1991 and  1992 Course in sculpture from life using Clay   
Tutor: Jo Miller   

1992   Surface Pattern and Decorative Techniques.  
Tutor:  Paula Grey   

1993 Mould Making and Slip Casting.  
Tutor: David Cowley  

1994  Course in Throwing   
Tutor: Brian Dewbury   

1994   Course in Sculpture from Life.  
Tutor: Jo Miller  

1995 Raku a New Approach   
Tutor: John Dunn   

Cambridge:   
1993 Handbuilding and Smoking Techniques  
Tutor: Jane Perryman  

Yorkshire: 
1997 Sculptural Ceramics 
Tutor: Jim Robson 

Hale, The Lake District:  
2000  Traditional English Slipware and Woodfiring Techniques  
Tutors Vicky and Michael Eden
 
 
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