John Busuttil Leaver (born John Robert Busuttil; 1964) is a Maltese visual artist and painter. He has worked in graphic book design and written about contemporary art. [1] He is philosophical about his work and sees what he does as non-commercial: a statement about the contemporary. He is known for his solo show 'A Diary of Obsessions', (2008, Saint James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta) for work which commented against overdevelopment.
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Busuttil Leaver studied at the Malta Government School of art under Harry Alden, [2] and later at The Art and Design Centre, Valletta. He began working as a graphic designer but continued to paint and participate in many collectives. [3] [4] [5] The National Museum of Fine Arts, [6] gave him a one-man showing in 1997. The Museum made an acquisition of his work later in 1999. [7] Other one-man shows followed in various galleries and art venues. [3] In 2014 he exhibited work in London.
A number of art critics and curators have covered his work including Nicholas de Piro, [8] Michael J. Schiavone, [9] Emanuel Fiorentino, [10] Dominic Cutajar, [11] Dennis Vella, [12] Adrian Stivala [13] Raphael Vella [14] and Dr Louis Lagana [15] [16] The Times of Malta published various articles. [17] [18] [19] He won a number of art competitions [20] and was featured in radio [21] and TV programmes [22] most noteworthy of which was a Canadian TV Cultural programme, 'TV Frames', [23] during their feature on Malta.