Tarcis Fenech is a queer, chronically ill artist living and working on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Their artistic practice combines their fascination with nature, death, and spirituality. Fenech’s body of work is an attempt to resurrect and reimagine extinct and surviving Maltese traditions both within and beside Christian norms, dealing with the grief that comes from living on the fringes of the diasporic community of a colonised culture. Fenech honours the moulded remains of limited deceased creatures to infuse their work with texture and ritual. They create highly dynamic glazed earthenware sculptures that evoke ancient oceanic religions, referencing biological matter and ritualistic symbolism.