Q&A with Eve Cocks
When was your blog first online? After months of planning and preparation, I was very happy to launch my very first blog post in mid-December 2017. How would you describe yourself? Ambitious, hard-working, a perfectionist and humorous (when I’m not too stressed with deadlines). What else do you do for a living? Running a blog … Continued
Art: Aaron Bezzina: Reflect, Now/Then, T/Here, 2017 (Lenticular prints), and Black Painting I & II, 2017 (oil on canvas), both shot at Valletta Contemporary pre-opening Fundraiser Exhibition in December 2017
When was your blog first online?
After months of planning and preparation, I was very happy to launch my very first blog post in mid-December 2017.
How would you describe yourself?
Ambitious, hard-working, a perfectionist and humorous (when I’m not too stressed with deadlines).
What else do you do for a living?
Running a blog is time-consuming, so I dedicate most of my time and energy working on it. I also lecture on the history of modern art and assist my partner in managing his catering business.
Who have you interviewed or what have you reviewed?
Local and foreign artists, art collectors, art historians – in a nutshell, people who contribute (or have contributed) to the modern and contemporary visual art sector.
What is the concept behind your blog and why did you decide to start it? The concept is to create an online educational and informative resource on contemporary art and artists in Malta where art enthusiasts, students and the likes could discover and learn about this field of interest.
The idea started from some casual chats I had with my business partner Pierre Mizzi (of Logix Creative Ltd). I admit that he believed in my potential for being able to do this more than I did myself and it was thanks to his charming persuasion and technical support that I took the plunge to commit myself fully to it.
What do you look for in an interviewee?
I usually tend to go for the suffering artist – meaning artists who are fully committed to their art practice, who invest quite some time in developing a well-informed, well-researched, distinctive visual language.
What or who has been your most exciting find?
Each and every artist or topic that I’ve dealt with so far is exciting in their own way.
Who or what has been the most challenging moment since it has been online?
Keeping up with the artists’ requests to be featured on the blog, and running the blog as a start-up on a tight budget.
What keeps you going or inspires you?
My passion for art and people’s positive feedback and their showing interest in learning more about Malta’s modern and contemporary art scene.
Can you tell us who is up next or give us any clues?
There are quite a few contemporary artists in the pipeline: Tom van Malderen and Matthew Attard are two of them…
Check it out: www.evecocks.com
