2025
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025Żebbuġ, Gozo
Bas-Relief, 2025
Bas-Relief, 2025Completed URNA Installation, photograph courtesy of London Design Biennale
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Tea ceremonyQammieħ, MellieħaKristina,
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Inspecting rock in Mġiebaħ, MellieħaCartogram, 2025Bas-Relief, 2025
Bas-Relief, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Cartogram, 2025
Sketch by Ryan Caruana Melbourne
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Scan of Fossil in LimestoneLimestone formations, Qbajjar, GozoHal Mann Vella FactoryKlaudia, Pieta.Cartogram, 2025Qala, Gozo
Qala, Gozo
Qala, Gozo
Cartogram, 2025
Qala, Gozo
Wild fennel in spring
Qala, Gozo
Acanthus mollis
in springBas-Relief, 2025Qala, GozoBas-Relief, 2025Bas-Relief, 2025Bas-Relief, 2025Wild fennel in spring
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Limestone formations in Qammieħ, Mellieħa
Bas-relief, 2025Bas-relief, 2025
Notes
1. Cartogram, 2025
A map of fractures, a ledger of the earth’s slow negotiations with itself. This series traces the fault lines, seams, and shifting boundaries of stone—where rock plates attempt to fit together or pull apart. These fissures are not sudden; they are slow, inevitable, inscribed over time like a cartogram of unseen forces. The images capture the tension between cohesion and fragmentation, reading the landscape as a record of movement, strain, and quiet transformation.
2. Bas-relief, 2025
A landscape momentarily revealed by rain. Shallow depressions—barely noticeable in dry stone—fill with water, spelling out a hidden topography, a fleeting patchwork of basins and rivulets. For a brief moment, erosion transforms into form, absence into presence. These pools act as vessels, holding the memory of rainfall before vanishing again, leaving only the quiet impression of what once was.
3. URNA, 2024-2025
URNA is the Maltese Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2025, the project explores new rituals surrounding the body after death in Malta. This inquiry moves beyond tradition, imagining a future where burial practices are shaped by landscape, memory, and material transformation.
Conceived and developed by Anthony Bonnici, Andrew Borg Wirth, Anne Immelé, Tanil Raif, Thomas Mifsud, Matthew Attard Navarro, and Stephanie Sant, URNA brings together an interdisciplinary approach, merging design, philosophy, and material experimentation.
Its narrative unfolds as a meditation on geology, time, and dissolution—where the body, like stone, erodes into the landscape, becoming indistinguishable from the earth that holds it.
URNA received the London Design Biennale Gold Medal.
© Thomas Mifsud 2025.
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