As from this month, Seasus has chosen sculptor Joseph Casha to represent its commitment and support towards culture and art in Malta. With the artist celebrating his 50 years of career, Seasus proposed to develop a brand new website where to host and promote the artist's works of art online. The launch of the website www.josephcasha.com coincided with the launch of a high quality art book entitled Joseph Casha-Fantasy & Reality, which was also part-sponsored by Seasus.

Joseph Casha now finds it easy to maintain his website by using the Seasus eBridge Web Site Management Framework. It provides a number of web site management and support tools, including content and user management, newsletter publishing, stock management and web site activity monitoring. This means the artist can regularly update his press articles and gallery by simply logging online, anywhere, any time.

This venture is just the first of a number of activities being initiated by Seasus to enhance its presence on the local and international markets, whilst addressing Corporate Social Responsibility.

About Joseph Casha Dip. Fine Arts (Rome) sculptor

‘Malta has produced a young sculptor, Joseph Casha, who has benefited from a particular combination of Latin and British influences, and after studying in Italy and Britain, has emerged as a leading Maltese artist with a marked individuality’ [Sculpture International magazine No.3]

He has made works of art in a multitude of media – plaster to be cast in bronze, limestone, alabaster, marble, various types of wood [occasionally gilded], ceramics, terracotta, fibre-glass, etching, lino-cut, ink and collage. His works range from the non-figurative to natural representation. He has been, besides a sculptor and ceramist, a designer of postage stamps and Trade Fair posters. His church works include stained glass windows and tabernacles. He was responsible for the monument to Pope John Paul II at Attard.

Joseph Casha studied at the School of Art, Valletta [1959 – 1961], at the Accademia di Belle Arti, [1961 – 4], at the Istituto Statale d’Arte [1961 -2], at the Scuola dell Arti Ornamentali [1963 – 4], all found in Rome. Between [1964 -5] he was at Brighton College of Arts and Crafts on an Art Teachers’ Course. In his professional life, he was Teacher of Art in state schools, Head of a Primary School and Head of the School of Art where he still teaches sculpture having retired five years ago.

He is married to Mary nee Magro and has three daughters and four grandchildren.

This text is taken from ‘Joseph Casha – A Retrospective Exhibition’, Bank of Valletta- December 2005-January 2006; exhibition curator Louis P Saliba.