SPEAKERS 2024

Cecilie is part of art and design duo Gilles & Cecilie Studio. She graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art with a BA in Graphic Design and is a member of Grafill, The Association of Illustrators (UK), Tegnerforbundet and Norske Billedkunstnere. She is also an avid bookbinder and printmaker after falling in love with craft during her college years. and later working at fine art bindery Wyvern in London and teaching printmaking as a visiting lecturer. 

Somebooks is a Seoul-based publisher, set up in 2009 to provide an independent publishing platform for illustration, pictured-book and conceptual image-book by artist and graphic designer.  Over the last few years, they had connected Institute of Picture book and artist from worldwide to publish books of the highest and quality not only image but also content.  Most of their books contain a numbered and signed by author and artist in a limited number of copies.  They distribute the editions directly from Korea to overseas countries.
Sunkyung Cho was born in 1959, Seoul, Korea, studied graphic design and illustration at Hongik University, Seoul, Korea, after he did an MFA at SVA "Illustration as visual essay" NY, USA, and he started "Some Institute of Picture book" form 2003 in Seoul, Korea,  "Somebooks" was born as a picture book publishing house in Seoul, Korea, Illustration and Picture book project for all around world.

Nacida en 1998, Roma, Coca Puma es el apodo de Costanza Puma, una artista ecléctica con formación en nu-jazz que se mueve en un horizonte híbrido y atípico, entre el dream pop, el nu-soul, la electrónica, el ambient y el post-rock. Etérea y magnética, utiliza la voz y las texturas de sus producciones para construir un mundo propio. Interno e individual, ante todo. Luego generacional y, finalmente, humano.Nos presentará en Sectores Paralelos temas de su disco “Panorama Olivia” con las ilustraciones en vivo de Alejandra Oviedo.

De formación artista, nacida en Basilicata y vivida en la Toscana, trabaja entre libros, entre semana, y entre vinilos en la noche.

Tiene en su elenco musical distintas mezclas entre la milonga a la cumbia, hasta el calypso, la música balcánica, la samba o el latin jazz. Ha viajado por todo el mundo expandiendo sus divertidas sesiones y música en festivales, salas y teatros.

Desde hace ocho años es la dj oficial que ameniza las cenas de networking y clausura cada edición de Irudika.

Puntada Bastarda is the project in which Elena Rodríguez unites her two passions, embroidery and music. At the beginning of his career in the graphic arts sector, his career was linked to various projects within the Biscayan music scene. With this project, Elena manages to transmit, stitch by stitch, the passion for the records that have marked her life and with which she enjoys so much. He currently participates in different projects organized by Bokashi.

A librarian for public reading and the National Children´s Book Centre, she spent time in the United States where she worked in special effects at the Boston Opera. There she became acquainted with the world of artists´ books. Upon her return to France, Elisabeth Lortic founded the association Trois Ourses with
two fellow librarians: Odile Belkeddar and Annie Mirabel. For 30 years, their association, which they called Les Trois Ourses (The Three Bears) created a dialogue between art, books and children through their actions in libraries, schools and kindergartens.

Their adventure began with the desire to showcase the process of creating artistic books, whether by emerging artists or forgotten works from the previous century.

Their logo was designed by Paul Cox, and their catalogue filled with authors and artists such as Ianna Andreadis, Marion Bataille, Jill Hartley, Remy Charlip, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari, Katsumi Komagata and many more. In 2018 Les Trois Ourses will end its existence, but Elisabeth is still active, as she is currently one of the most important personalities in the mediation of art and artist's books worldwide.

Elizabeth Builes was born in Medellín. She has dedicated herself to exploring nature through visual storytelling. In 2013, she won the Tragaluz Illustration Award and thanks to this recognition she participated in the book ‘Johnny and the Sea’, by the writer Melba Escobar, which was included in the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany. She has published in several publishing houses in Colombia and Latin America. Her assistants, Piñata and Carambolo, accompany her on long days of drawing and greet her when she comes home from running.

Enara Bravo aka Ruda Handpoke (Barakaldo 1981), trained in audiovisuals, I left that field some time ago to develop a work and life project in the rural world. For years I have been a handpoke tattoo artist in the Bilbao studio Petra Tatuajes and at the same time I develop textile pieces with a special interest in native
wool. My work explores the intersection between tradition and avant-garde, with a focus on needles, rural memory and sustainability. As a blackwork tattooist, I have always favored tattooing without a machine.

Although I design digitally, I return to tradition now of tattooing by building my pieces stitch by stitch, simply with needle and ink. My flash is composed of pieces of flowers, antique embroidery, broken vases, crying eyes, animals, warriors or elements of old school and ignorant style that are building the imaginary Ruda Handpo.

In textiles, I use natural materials and ancestral techniques, working with wool from my sheep, processed in a domestic way. Through felting, embroidery and the recovery of old fabrics, I explore themes such as feminism, class consciousness or the preservation of rural knowledge. The needle is the common axis that runs through my work, whether on leather or textiles, transforming both digital designs and traditional techniques into narratives that dialogue between the present and the past.