Noel Galea Bason

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Noel Galea Bason (born 1955 in Floriana ) is a Maltese sculptor and medalist .

Career

Maltese course coin at 5 cents (since 2008)
Maltese 50 cents circulation coin (since 2008)
Maltese 2 euro circulation coin (since 2008)

Noel Galea Bason trained as a medalist at the Scuola dell'Arte della Medaglia - Giuseppe Romagnoli of the Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome from 1975 to 1978 . From 1977 to 1991 he was the only coin designer and medalist at the Maltese mint, which closed in 1995 .

In addition to several state gifts from the Maltese government for monarchs and other foreign dignitaries, Galea Bason has made some works for public spaces. After two sculptors failed with their abstract designs for a monument to the Maltese statesman Dom Mintoff on Castile Square in Valletta , Noel Galeea Bason was commissioned with a sculpture. It was unveiled in May 2018.

Galea Bason has designed numerous medals and more than 60 coins, including a series of ten coins for San Marino and a series of 28 medals with portraits of the Grand Masters of the Order of Malta , created between 1998 and 2002 . His most famous coin designs are the three different faces of the Maltese euro coins issued since 2008 with a stylized representation of the Mnajdra on the coins at 1 cent, 2 cents and 5 cents, the coat of arms of Malta on the coins at 10 cents, 20 cents and 50 cents, as well the Maltese cross on the 1 euro and 2 euro coins.

Noel Galea Bason lives and works in Naxxar .

Works (selection)

Sculptures and reliefs

Coins and medals

  • Face of the Maltese euro coins with three different motifs (since 2008);
  • Death Medal on Dom Mintoff (2012);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Maltese police (2014);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin 100 years of Maltese aviation (2015);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin Temple of Ġgantija (2016);
  • Sterling silver collector's coin for 10 euros, for the 100th birthday of Dom Mintoff (2016);
  • 5 euro gold coin with a depiction of a historical 4 tari patakka coin (2016);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin Temple of Ħaġar Qim (2017);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin Solidarity and Peace from the series From children in solidarity (2017, only engraving, based on a design by student Katya Muscat);
  • 2 euro commemorative coin Temple of Mnajdra (2018);
  • 2 euro commemorative cultural heritage coin from the series From children in solidarity (2018, only engraving, based on a design by student Nicole Dimech);
  • Sterling silver collector's coin worth 10 euros, on the occasion of Valletta's appointment as European Capital of Culture (2018);
  • Silver coin for 10 euros and gold coin for 100 euros for the 50th anniversary of Bank Ċentrali ta 'Malta (2018).
  • Coins designed by Noel Galea Bason

  • 2 euro commemorative coin commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Maltese police (2014)

  • 2 euro commemorative coin 100 years of Maltese aviation (2015)

  • 2 euro commemorative coin Temple of Ġgantija (2016)

  • 2 euro commemorative coin Temple of Ħaġar Qim (2017)

  • 2 euro commemorative coin Solidarity and Peace (2017, only engraving)

Other work

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography , Noel Galea Bason's website, accessed December 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d More Info , Noel Galea Bason's website, accessed December 13, 2018.
  3. ^ Ivan Camilleri: Plans for Dom Mintoff monument modified. Monument expected to be inaugurated by end of year , Times of Malta , March 13, 2017, accessed December 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ Castille Square soon to host Mintoff's monument. Works are in final stages , Times of Malta , May 20, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ a b Claire Caruana: Watch: Mintoff monument celebrates the future - Muscat , Times of Malta , May 31, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018 (with video of the unveiling).
  6. ↑ Isabelle Borg: The Iconography of Evil in Maltese Art . In: Paul Clough and Jon P. Mitchell (eds.): Powers of Good and Evil: Moralities, Commodities, and Popular Belief . Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford 2001, pp. 210–232, here pp. 225–226 and illustration p. 211, ISBN 1-57181-313-6 .
  7. ^ The Verdala Palace, Malta , Royal Collection Trust website , accessed December 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ a b c d Norma Saliba: Model of Mintoff monument for Castille square is ready Website of Television Malta , September 7, 2016, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ James E. Kloetzel et al. (Ed.): Scott 2009 Standard Postage Stamp Catalog. Volume 4, JO . Scott Publishing Co., Sidney, OH 2008, p. 812, ISBN 0-89487-420-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Galea Bason, Noel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bason, Noel Galea (frequent misspellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Maltese sculptor and medalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Floriana

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