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Bibliography

Il-Munita - September 1984
House Journal of Mid-Med Bank Ltd (now HSBC Bank Malta plc)

Maltafest 89 - Malta 25 Sena Indipendenti
M altese Contemporary Art Exhibition catalogue

The Times - 27 June 1989
"...and Brian Grima's whose Magrittian Surrealism might see him developing further in that genre."
Emmanuel Fiorentino

The Times - 15 August 1990
" Brian Grima's Dali versus Canaletto is a cross between an artistic game and a stylistic dilemma - one of the best new works in the exhibition."
"Dali versus Canaletto by Brian Grima shows to what extant Maltese artisits are aware of the historic artisitic perspective in art itself translating it into a language of its own existence."
Adrian Stivala

Le Livre d'Or des Collectionneurs et Amateurs d'Art - 1992
1st Edition (1992-1993)

The Times - 24 July 1994

" ...Brian Grima, with his typical liking for surrealistic imagery, takes a detached bird's eye view of the Citadel in Gozo, an island refuge as it sits aplomb upon a sea surrounded outcrop of rock."
Emmanuel Fiorentino

De Lumine Melitensis - 23 October to 12 November 1994
Exhibition catalogue - Write-up by Prof Francesco Quinterio

The Times - 18 December 1994
" ...Brian Grima has established himself as being practically the only practising artist to come readily to mind where a surrealistic keynote to his work offers a firm basis."
" Thus with a pride for a cultural and architectural legacy with which he sees his country endowed, Grima uses to the best advantage his impeccable draghtsmanship to create an imagery derived from a mine of Maltese monuments...."
Emmanuel Fiorentino

It-Torca - 1 January 1995
" Mahduma minn artist li jidher sew li irnexxielu jrazzan it-teknika tal-pittura klassika u akkademika, din il-gabra ta' kwadri fiha elementi fem interessanti..."
" L-Indafa li biha huma mahdumin dawn il-kwadri li jaghmlu usu minn numru gmielu ta' kuluri, f'kull kaz hija karatteristika ohra posittiva li taghmel lil Brian Grima artist fit-triq lejn il-maturita artistika, teknika u kulturali."
Adrian Stivala

Il-Munita - September 1995
House Journal of Mid-Med Bank Ltd (now HSBC Bank Malta plc)

Theatrum Melitense - 23 October to 9 November 1997
Exhibition catalogue - Write-ups by Prof Francesco Quinterio and Emmanuel Fiorentino


L-Orizzont - 8 November 1997
" Il-Wirja ta' Brian Grima tista' tigi interpretata bhala vizjoni teatrali mimlija fantasija, nostalgija ghall-passat glorjuz u b'ironija lejn Malta tal-lum"
George Glanville

The Times - 2 November 1997
" The feeling for this transportation of malta-concieved images, so meticulously clean and sharply-defined that even the ticking away of time would not even be picked out in the emanating stillness, runs throughout Grima's current exhibition of 11 paintings and three etchings at the Contemporary Room of the Fine Arts Museum."
Emmanuel Fiorentino

The Malta Indipendent - 2 November 1997
" There is something unmistakably theatrical about Brian Grima's recent paintings. Grima's Malta is more like a ghost town, an island at a standstill, a surreal place without a memory of the last two centuries."
Raphael Vella

The Malta Bankers Journal - Issue 4, April 1998

Kullana Kulturali - L-Arti Moderna f'Malta
Edited by John Paul Cassar - Published in 1998 by PIN Publications

HSBC Staff Art Exhibition - 25 April to 3 May 2002
Exhibition catalogue - Write-up by Jeremy A Hunt
" We have Brian Grima, whose surreal and meticulously detailed canvases and drawings are stunning."

International Dictionary of Artists who painted Malta - 2nd edition
Edited by Marquis Nicholas de Piro - Published in 2002 by Audio Visual Centre Ltd
"Paints in oils and also is an etcher. Grima is now perhaps the most popular surrealist producing pictures based on local scenes. His technique is skilled."

The Circle - November 2003 - Special Edition - Men

Design & Decor - Autumn 2004

Aut Esse Aut Non Esse - 1 to 5 November 2004
Exhibition catalogue - Write-up by the Artist

The Circle - December 2006

Exhibitions

Collective Exhibitions
1989 - Trade Fair Exhibition
1989 - Maltafest Art Exhibition
1990 - Trade Fair Exhibition
1990 - Maltafest Art Exhibition
1990 - Mid-Med Bank Staff Exhibition
1991
- Trade Fair Exhibition
1992 - Eden Foundation Art Exhibition
1992 - Teacher's Art Competition
1994 - Teacher's Art Competition
2001 - HSBC Bank Malta Staff Exhibition
2002 - HSBC Bank Malta Staff Exhibition

Personal Exhibitions
1994 - De Lumine Melitensis

1997 - Theatrum Melitense
2004 - Aut Esse Aut Non Esse

The exhibition was set up at the National Museum of Fine Arts, South Street, Valletta from the 30 November to 13 December 1994.
The exhibition was set up at the National Museum of Fine Arts, South Street, Valletta from 23 October to 12 November 1997.
The word etching is derived from the Dutch etzen - to eat. Therefore, in order to make an etching at all, one must employ an eating-away, or as it is technically.....
The exhibition was set up at the Malta Chamber of Commerce & Enterprise, Republic Street, Valletta from the 1 to 5 November 2004.
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