Palvishee holds a Master in Fine Arts from ESADMM (École Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée) and a first-class degree with honours in Arts with specialization in Painting. After university, she joined the School of Fine Arts of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) as Lecturer. Diagnosed with deuteranopia (Red-green colour blindness) during her teenage, she did not abandon her passion of Art and earned a scholarship to the ESADMM, France after being ranked 1st in her undergraduate studies. She is a Mauritian artist and her artworks are everything about women. Palvishee is also known for her ability to interpret a subject in a variety of styles; this being consistent with her mercurial and creative personality. In addition to her goal of inspiring students and other artists, her purpose is to entertain the viewer and to create a mood or feeling about the subject matter. Palvishee believes that there is always something new to learn and loves to see her students learn and take a chance with their painting sharing their unique life perspectives.  

Kaderbaccus Mohammad Aftaz (born 1993), is a Mauritian Contemporary Artist. Aftaz specializes in sculpture in various media including wax, metal, wood\branches, scrape materials, whether it is man-made objects or natural made. He developed his curiosity into 3-D artworks since his first year as an Art student at the M.G.I and went on to choose Sculpture as specialization for his final years. Aftaz was curious about materials and mostly problem solving while working with them. Despite being an Art student he had participated in various art Exhibitions and Events and also collaborated with many Mauritian and international Artists. His major research is about “Deconstructivisme” where he analyzes and deconstruct concepts and materials to gives us different ways to look at a Sculpture. His Master`s and present research is about ‘the fragility of the human body’, where he approached the human body in a deconstructive way to create organic sculptures which reflects the Mauritian health problems.

Chairman and Founder, The Sovereign Group

Howard Bilton is Chairman and founder of The Sovereign Group – one of the world’s largest privately-owned consultancies specialising in the provision of offshore trusts and companies and associated international tax advice.

Howard currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Howard holds a joint honours degree in classics and law from the University of Keele and is qualified as a Barrister and called to the Bars of England/Wales and Gibraltar. As a visiting non-resident Professor at Texas A and M University, he assists with their LLM and Master’s degrees in International Tax and Offshore Centres. He is a regular contributor of articles to numerous newspapers and technical news wires.

In Hong Kong in 2003, Howard formed The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF), a charitable organisation also registered in Guernsey, Malta, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom. SAF runs a range of art prizes designed to increase the exposure of artists in the region, while raising money to help disadvantaged children. SAF has raised over US$9 million and has helped thousands of disadvantaged children using expressive arts as a means of education and rehabilitation.

Howard is also the Founder and Chairman of Howard’s Folly Wines, Portugal. All wines use art on the labels and often feature work by finalists of The Sovereign Asian Art Prize of the same year. A proportion of the wine operations revenue goes to support SAF.

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