International Artist Residency / Marin, summer of 2025
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Ioana Tațer
Ioana is a multidisciplinary artist based in Canada, working primarily with fibers, painting, drawing, and print. With a bachelor in fine arts at Bachelor Of Fine Arts Concordia University, Montréal and D.E.C. in Wildlife Management- Cégep de Saint-Laurent, her practice is influenced by ecology, sociology, psychology, and spirituality. Alongside her artistic work, she has experience in ceramics, fundraising, residency creation, and ecological research.
During her residency project, Seed Memories: Exploring Romanian Ecological Heritage through Culture, the artist combines her knowledge of biology with traditional and contemporary artistic practices in an ecological and sustainable way. After a month, Ioana creted a local herbarium, helped by other locals, she dyed hemp fiber, embroiderd, wove and created bioplastics from plants around the village, developing sustainable techniques for traditional art. Also, she invited locals and kids from the village to observe flowers and insects under the microscope and to identify the forest flora. With this approach, she aims to create a bridge between community, nature, and memory, exploring how plants, soil, and landscapes are part of a living heritage just as important as human traditions.
Amélie Barnathan
Amélie is a French artist based in London, working primarily in drawing and mixed media. Her work has been showcased in solo exhibitions in Paris, Chichester, Mexico City, and London, as well as in major group shows at institutions like Château de Servières, Manifesta Lyon, and the Grand Palais.
She has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize and participated in Maison de La Chine Residency in Paris. In addition to her artistic practice, she leads collaborative life drawing workshops and has taught at the University of Art, Brighton and the Design Museum, London.
During her residency in the village of Marin, Amélie allowed herself to play, sketch, and experiment, showing to the locals a unique exhibition of in progress artworks. She is particularly interested in elderly women, whose stories she considers essential for understanding collective memory and traditions passed down through the female line. Her passions include the female body, mythology, folklore, fantasy, magic, and the tension between the sacred and the profane. She is deeply interested in the complexity of the feminine experience and how it is represented in history, myth, and art. For her, drawing is a therapeutic and introspective practice, as well as a powerful narrative tool.
Sofia Ash
Sofia is a writer working within and between poetic, essayistic, and fictive forms. After graduating in literature from the university of York, she has devoted herself to retracing her Romanian roots and ancestral histories through her writing. Charged by feelings of rootlessness and striving for a transparent approach to the world, Sofia seeks grounding in her own writing. Alongside poetry, she completed the first draft of a novel, exploring the frailty of connection between those who approach the world through veils: of dreams, fantasies, and fears, which form the architecture of this mediated reality. Her essays and poetry have been published
in literary journals such as The Wynd, Nouse, and Phi Magazine, for which she is also poetry editor.
During the residency, Sofia worked on a poetic essayistic book-length project devoted to the study of Rootedness. It explores the ancestral, linguistic, and spiritual dimensions of roots, to retrace and process her own, as well as understand the theoretical basis underlying what we understand as being rooted. Feeling torn between roots creates an openness to new ones and a malleability to move across borders, languages, and worldviews. Channeling this into creative expression can become a liberating way of rooting oneself in the world. Guided by this notion, Sofia’s project weaves together vignettes from her own history and from others with similarly complex ancestries.
Georgie Finn
Georgie is an illustrator, printmaker, furniture painter and collage artist. She studied ceramics at Central School of Art in London and has a Master degree in children’s book illustration at Cambridge School of Art.
Her artistic journey has included numerous joint exhibitions and workshops, with recent showcases at The Townhouse, Spitalfields (2023) and The Atelier by the Sea, Brighton (2024) and at David Parr House, Cambridge.
Georgie is particularly drawn to the work of folk artists, who used to improvise materials in order to create art. Inspired by their resourcefulness, she embraces a similar approach by repurposing old papers and prints. Through collage, she reconnects with the simple, tactile joy of cutting and assembling, transforming forgotten materials into new creative expressions.
During her residency in Marin, Georgie has found inspiration in the village lanscape, folk costumes and everyday interactions, creating a large series of illustrations, wood paintings on abandoned objects from the village, collage frames and stories, all shown during an open studio where the locals had the opportunity to meet the artist and engage with her work.
Steven Santander
Steven Santander is an american-eucadorian visual artist, architect and chef based in New York. His passion for craft and design has led him to learn from a wide range of artisans, including jewelers, cobblers, welders, woodworkers, leatherworkers, and multimedia artists. This broad creative background deeply informs how he approaches ingredients, storytelling, and the overall curation of each culinary experience.
As part of the residency, Steven created multiple culinary experiences, inviting the local community to interact with the food through sculptures, paintings and re-interpreted dishes using the local ingredients from Crasna market. His final exhibition at the Dragu mansion, a historic site currently under restoration, was conceived as a journey through space, the exhibition guided visitors across multiple rooms, each chosen for its architectural qualities, lighting, and transitions, integrating large-scale drawing in yellow ink in the culinary labirinth. The interplay between the mansion’s deteriorating state, its architectural elements, and the designated pathways created an experience of constant anticipation, encouraging the audience to see the building in new ways.
Gaurav Ogale
Ogale is an indian visual artist and writer whose projects intertwine nostalgia, personal aesthetics, and visual documentation. In 2023, he was selected for the India Art Fair x Apple Digital Artist in Residence program, where he presented the series “Words x Visuals”, created in collaboration with prominent voices from the Indian subcontinent.
Throughout his career, he has led the Visual Content and Design department at the Sarmaya Museum, worked as an illustrator and author for National Geographic Traveller India, curated at Space 118, served as a creative consultant for Avid Learning, and been part of the curatorial team at the Royal Opera House Mumbai.
As an artist, he has participated in international residencies and exhibitions in Casablanca, Berlin, Goa, Marrakech, and France. He has been invited as a speaker at institutions such as the Faculty of Visual Arts – BHU Varanasi, Faculty of Fine Arts – Baroda, DICE Vancouver Film School, and MICA Ahmedabad, and has taught a course on Understanding Contemporary Aesthetics and Visual Documentation at Parsons India Campus.
During the Made in Sat residency, Gaurav Ogale explores the traditional practice of embroidering wall hangings through the lens of reinterpreting socio-cultural norms around feminism, individuality, gender, and self-love, engaging in conversations and collaborations with women from the village. Collaborating with women from the village, he developed a series of embroideries inspired by the traditional peretare, opening a dialogue between traditional crafts and modern concepts, starting from the question of marriage as the central conversation topic within the small host community.
Cécile Tissot
Cécile Tissot is a visual artist who explores, in her own words, "the magical arrangement of things that leads to the divine". Born in 1970 into the Windhausen family, Dutch artists renowned for their religious paintings, she was drawn to artistic expression from an early age. Alongside business studies and a career in humanitarian work for child protection reform in Romania, she learned and experimented with a multitude of artistic techniques - drawing, painting, engraving - and discovered a particular attraction for sculpture, which she learned in London in the 1990s, where she exhibited and sold her work regularly between 1997 and 2004 (The Gallery at Cork Street, City Lit). She went on to specialise in direct carving of stone and wood at the Ateliers Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, and since then has been developing a protean body of artistic research.
In 2021, the Musée Belmondo in Boulogne-Billancourt invited her to show eight sculptures in the group exhibition "Dialogue", and gave her Carte Blanche as part of the European Heritage Days 2023. Cécile taught modelling for 7 years in Paris (Association des Amis du Parc Brassens) and regularly gives workshops and courses on sculpture and nature, most recently at the Musée Belmondo and the Maison de la Planète in Boulogne-Billancourt (plant prints, sound sculptures, sketchbooks, etc.).
Her project explores the idea of the altar as a meeting point between earth and sky, matter and sacred. Working with clay, wood, stone, plaster, wax and found natural elements, she created a series of small altars, each embodying gestures of connection to the divine, objects that hold space for water, fire, offerings and light, inviting us to reflect on how we bring holiness into daily life. Cécile is inspired by local traditions, leaving the landscapes, encounters and synchronicities shape the work.
