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SPEAKERS 2023

The seventh edition of Irudika will have Japan, Poland and Nigeria as guest countries to take part in the three round tables of Illustration World. Also, in Editorial World we will have guests from Mexico, France, Portugal, Colombia, Spain and many other places.

Artists, publishers, and agents will come to Vitoria-Gasteiz with projects covering illustration, cultural agents and galleries, handmade printing, children's magazines, book covers, poster design and many other subjects.

In addition, the Parallel Sectors conference will feature sustainability and illustration with biomaterials, jewellery and gastronomy as the main topics of conversation between guest illustrators.

As every year, we will have Basque links in each round table, whether they are publishers, artists or illustrators.

Abril Castillo – Alacraña

Editorial World
Morelia

Abril Castillo Cabrera (Morelia, Mexico 1984). She draws, edits and writes. She has been curator and manager of projects related to culture, writing and illustration. With Ilustradero she founded the project Iberoamérica Ilustra (El Ilustradero-FIL Guadalajara-Fundación SM). She currently runs her independent publishing house Alacraña. She is the author of the illustrated books: Chet (La Duplicadora, 2018), Sueño en dos colores (Los Indelebles, 2020), Dígalo con piedras (Pitzilein Books, 2021) and the fanzines Bogotá 2017 (Alacraña, 2023), Leí, vi, recordé (Alacraña, 2021) and Epígrafe (Alacraña, 2023).

Abril Castillo – Alacraña

Editorial World
Morelia
Abril Castillo – Alacraña

Blossom Oyeyipo

Illustration World
Lagos

Blossom Oyeyipo (b. Lagos 1998) is a visual artist living and working in Lagos, Nigeria. Her paintings, almost exclusively done in blues, explore portraits and figures of women, often in solitude and private moments of thought. Using acrylics, pastels, and charcoals interchangeably, Blossom explores themes of womanhood, self, and the place of belief systems in one's relationship to self and others.

These semi-abstract paintings are made relatively quickly to retain the fluidity of the paint to convey the varying nature of a body/self-experiencing a range of emotions in a particular moment.

Blossom has participated in group exhibitions, including Figuratively Speaking (Group) 2023-Artsy, Art at Ouida 2022, SPLIT, a Noire Experience 2022, and What about Love? 2021 (Group), Expo Lagos (curated by The Self Expression Exhibition) 2020 (Group), and The Noire Art Exhibition 2020.

 

Blossom Oyeyipo

Illustration World
Lagos
Blossom Oyeyipo

Colectivo Cerdas

Editorial World
Vitoria-Gasteiz

It is a collective created by illustrators from Vitoria-Gasteiz at the end of 2014 with collaborations from the rest of the Basque Country and Navarre. Founded by Arantza Eziolaza and Mikel Escalera as a self-publishing project, it has been adding authors up to the present day, including Natalia Albeniz, Alex F, Angel Remirez... with more than a dozen fanzines created and participation in various exhibitions and countless self-publishing fairs. In the summer of 2023, they created and organised the first small self-publishing meeting Pokon Fest in Vitoria - Gasteiz. 

The aim of Colectivo Cerdas is to disseminate the work of people dedicated to illustration in our immediate environment, trying to promote respect for the profession and express our creativity through self-managed projects and other activities.

Colectivo Cerdas

Editorial World
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Colectivo Cerdas

Diana Arias - CasaTinta

Editorial World

Diana Arias has been working since 2009 in the management of cultural and editorial projects. She is co-founder of Casatinta, a space dedicated to illustration based in Bogotá and co-director of ILUSTROPÍA - International Illustration Festival. Casatinta opened its doors in 2012 and is conceived as an independent space focused on illustration and graphic arts; Our goal is to promote the field of illustration as a professional practice.

 

Diana Arias - CasaTinta

Editorial World
diana-casatinta

Dibujatolrato

Parallel Sectors
Bilbao

“Dibujatolrato Sinparar” is an open and self-managed collective in Bilbao, made up of people who share their passion for drawing. We occupy the street, experiment and commit ourselves socially and culturally to the complex reality of the neighbourhoods of Bilbao La Vieja, San Francisco and Zabala.

After 10 years of activity with 60 tolrater@s regularly participating, many beers and almost 500 sketchcrawls, we have generated a creative culture that has made possible new individual and collaborative projects arising from this informal network of relationships. 

One of these projects is the book "20 Years Rices of the World. Recipes and Stories". The Squares Social Groups District Platform asked us to publish this book to tribute this annual event that brings together nearly 4,000 people to celebrate cultural diversity, weave community relations, occupy public space and demand the improvement of our neighbourhoods.

We created a team of three illustrators and had long coffees with 15 diverse people to listen to their stories and, incidentally, to collect their favourite recipes that they cook in "Rices of the World" in the square. 

It was Eugenio Lasarte's turn to illustrate live. He has been editing the "Amazing Trips" blog for years and has recently published "Unlikely Constructions". Eva Hidalgo, "Evanoru", offered to lovingly layout the book. She is an illustrator and graphic designer who has done dozens of freelance works. Ander Elgorriaga, who published the story "White Butterfly", coordinated the project and wrote the texts. And... in just 11 weeks this socio-gastronomic project was in bookshops.

Dibujatolrato

Parallel Sectors
Bilbao
Dibujatolrato

Ediciones Modernas El Embudo

Editorial World

Elena Odriozola and Gustavo Puerta have been working together for a long time. After various challenges and ideas, they finally took seriously the question: "What if we set up a publishing house...?" and, together with Marta, they created Ediciones Modernas El Embudo. Their aim is to produce books for children, and materialise their peculiar way of understanding what children's literature can be. They publish few books a year, almost more collections than titles, always playful, very handmade and well thought out 

 

Ediciones Modernas El Embudo

Editorial World
embudo

Estudio Bokashi

Parallel Sectors
Bilbao

The project was born with the aim of creating meeting space where we can disseminate and discuss the future of fashion.Our purpose is to organise different activities such as screenings, talks and workshops where you can share and learn about creativity and innovation applied to the world of fashion; re-discover traditional techniques and promote local proposals.

A space open to everyone, where designers, artisans, fashion lovers or anyone interested in experimenting the possibilities of textile design and bio-fashion can get in touch with each other. Estudio Bokashi is formed by Libe Kerroum and Laura Marchante.

Estudio Bokashi

Parallel Sectors
Bilbao
Estudio Bokashi

Fabián Villa – La Linterna

Editorial World
Cali

Fabian Villa is not only a designer but also a project manager at La Linterna Cali Ltda, a letterpress printing workshop dedicated since 1934 to the millenary craft of handmade poster printing using the technique of linoleum engraving and movable type.

The workshop where master printers Olmedo, Hector and Jaime produce these pieces is located in the San Antonio neighbourhood of the city of Cali, inhabited for decades by at least five old printing presses.

In 2016, the workshop went through a strong economic crisis, being abandoned by its owner, but maintained by its printers who did not stop coming to work even without being paid for months at a time. It was after a year in 2017, when Patricia Prado and Fabian Villa of Casa Ternaria, found the space and seeing the situation, rescued the workshop through a poster exhibition in collaboration with artist friends who supported the cause. They sold easily, raising money for the printers and the project. 

With a very personal style in their use of inks, gradients and technical resources, their posters are clearly recognisable. Works of art in themselves created in a handcrafted way and with great visual power. La Linterna thus becomes a place of reference for graphic artists and residency projects inside and outside Colombia.

 

Fabián Villa – La Linterna

Editorial World
Cali
Fabián Villa – La Linterna