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.

Akshay Kumar Seebaluck studied Fine Arts at Karnataka Chitrakala Parisath, Bangalore and completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indira Kala Sangeet Vishwavidyalaya,Khairagarh University India and was graduated with a Master degree in Painting in same university. He has been awarded a Gold Medalist for B.F.A at the I.K.S.V.V University. Akshay has been working in continuous guidance of his father, artist, Chayetan Seebaluck at the Raphael Art Galerie, Mauritius.

Akshay’s philosophy “Nature is the only master who helps to create a real piece of art, without nature the ideal art wouldn’t have existed." It is in India at the Khairagarh University that he has found the true sense of painting, where he was surrounded by nature with a really artistic environment where his passion for painting arose. He has been working with watercolour, gouache, acrylic, ink, charcoal and mix media. Currently exploring the diverse abstraction in art, his artworks are based on his journey in the art field, in which he is continuously implementing new ideas and experimenting new media to it. There are different series which he has done concentrating on different medium like, colors, waste materials and light projection.

Akshay is in permanent exhibitions at the Galerie Raphael, Pointe aux Cannoniers, Mauritius. Some of his other exhibitions are as follows:

• Watercolour Group Exhibition at the I.K.S.V.V. University Khairagarh, India
• Duo Exhibition in Mauritius at the Alliance de Français, Belle Village, Mauritius
• Group exhibition at International Kala Mela 2017, New Delhi ,IGNCA, India
• “Crash” : 9/11 and its aftermath, installation art commemorating 9/11curated by Johny M L, at I.K.S.V.V Khairagarh,India
• Curated Khairagarh Ink Festival in collaboration with Inktober at I.K.S.V.V.
• Artwork Exhibited at the Kochi Biennale 2018-2019
• Artwork Exhibited at Mauritius International Art Fair 2019

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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 new 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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