Villa Flora Artist in Residency Program, SESSION 2009 PARTICIPANTS: Anna Puhakka (Finland), Tjaša Iris (Slovenia), Giulio Baistrocchi (Italy)

Villa Flora Artist in Residency Program

SESSION 2009:

PARTICIPANTS:

Anna Puhakka (Finland), Tjaša Iris (Slovenia), Giulio Baistrocchi (Italy)

Anna Puhakka, Finland

Anna Puhakka is a Finnish artist, living and working in the North East of England since 2004. She graduated in 2007 from the University of Sunderland where received the Douglas Clasper Scholarship Award for Excellence. Since then she has been working continuously, exhibiting both in the North East and Berlin as well as co-founding the artist group BaseNorth.
She is an interdisciplinary artist/writer, committed to making conceptual work in any medium that best represents the idea. She doesn’t limit herself to working in the white cube and works in response to the context of her surroundings. Using an array of mediums such as installation, performance, video, photography, sound and text she creates atmospheres for the viewers to experience.
For the past months she has primarily been working as a writer on her novel and several short stories. She has also been developing a script for a silent film, which she hopes to finish by the end of the year. During her time in Slovenia, Puhakka will be working on her novel as well as creating new work to be exhibited at the end of the residency, the inspiration for which will be drawn from her time spent at Villa Flora and in Slovenia.

Web: www.annapuhakka.com

MORE ABOUT THE ART WORK THAT ANNA PUHAKKA PRODUCED DURING HER STAY AT VILLA FLORA......more...

Giulio Baistrocchi, Italy

Was born the 21/04/79 in Rome.My extended family has been my major trauma and blessing. Two aristocratic families with a strong history and cosmoplite, with english (distantly related to the Chambers family, in the navy for centuries and a painting in the Greenwich maritime museum), peruvian( my ancestors had gold mines in Peru), polish(my family came from poland in the year 1000) and Brazilian. My grandfather was a diplomat and went to a concentration (with his family and my father was 2) camp in Japan because he did not wanted to be under Mussolini’s rule after the shift of alliances. My mothers s very old family had enormous estates in tuscany,and glorious past as rulers, Pope’s generals. Both were ruined by the war, and mourned for the bygone past, my mother became alcoholic and my father ruined his diplomatic career for aristocratic pride, and I think this helped the growth of his fatal cancer. My inheritence has been a burden for many years especially as a son of a diplomat I had no roots,and difficulties in socialising.Went to posh french schools in Brazil, and Rome but I felt I had nothing in common with my spoilt fellow students . I did not suffer from my extended family while we were abroad and was not so outkast, and on my return to Europe I felt it was boring and tedious until and Brazil was escape to aristo pride self pity,arrogance, and a memento that whatever happens we must put a brave face and be optimist and happy.

Web: www.giuliobaistrocchi.com

Tjaša Iris, Slovenia

Tjaša Iris, the founder of Villa Flora Artist's Residency spent the two weeks painting for her spring 2010 exhibitions in Singapore and Hong Kong. She as well painted the above painting for Piran Ex-Tempore Painting Competition.

Web: www.tjasairis.com

The Day of the Open Studio - Branik Village Feast Day 30th August