Collective Exhibition Sitges ReciclArt 2025

Enric Alonso Masana (Tremp, Lleida, 1965)
Self-taught artist who works with all kinds of materials: metal, wood, paper, stone...
For the past couple of years, he has been working with recycled materials, convinced of the need for everyone to become aware of the issues of waste and climate change. Through his works, he seeks to convey the feelings and emotions of the human condition.

Carles Barbeito i Mallafré – Fusta de Peix (Barcelona, 1968)
Shipwright carpenter, and craftsman with 32 years of experience at the Port of Barcelona, where he collects broken wood and metal pieces from the nautical world. In 2019, driven by his environmental concerns and a playful spirit, he decided to combine his craft, creativity, the materials at hand, and his surrounding environment. This is how Fusta de peix was born. Under this name, he creates pieces that evoke marine life, reflecting the connection between the sea, its creatures, and navigational tools.

Snezhana Botenovskaya, - Nia (Minsk, 1981)
Belarusian self-taught artist based in Barcelona, who transforms found materials into collages, fascinated by the alchemy of creativity, where the chaos of discarded materials is organized by color, shape, or meaning, until everything harmonizes and magic happens. She explores the ephemeral nature of things and the hidden value of rejected objects with an aesthetic that oscillates between Dadaism and visual poetry.

Isaac Carbonell - Neoplancton (Sitges, 1993)
Audiovisual creator who explores art using microplastics collected from Mediterranean beaches, giving new life to waste and raising awareness of marine pollution through image and sculpture. His project Neoplancton refers to the fact that microplastics are replacing plankton.

Steven Forster “SfoRster” (Lanchester, Regne Unit, 1960)
Multifaceted and multidisciplinary artist: sculptor, painter, musician, composer, performer, and unconventional interior designer, responsible for the entire interior design of Bodega Saltó, among others. His work explores the tensions between the subconscious and everyday life, with an aesthetic marked by symbolic narrative and dark humor. Founding member of Drap-Art and a very active participant in Barcelona’s alternative art scene.

Roberto Franco “Roby” (Sitges, 1967)
Eclectic and multidisciplinary artist, he combines technique, imagination, and humor to create works that engage with childlike creativity and fantasy. He uses recycled materials to build miniature theatrical scenes, magical characters, and surprising structures that appeal to a playful gaze and awaken the audience’s narrative spirit.

Vicky Gómez Talaya (Barcelona, 1971)
Multidisciplinary artist committed to social and environmental causes. She combines art, education, and community action to develop collective projects based on reuse and ecofeminism. She works with ceramics, textiles, plastics, and other recycled materials to create participatory installations that promote ecological awareness and social justice.

Genis Hernández (Sitges, 1961)

Artist, decorator, and set designer for cultural events who uses recycled materials in both his personal and professional work, with a focus on sustainable creativity.

Bill Miller (Cleveland, USA, 1962)
Renowned for his original collage technique using discarded linòleum from grandma’s kitchen, Bill Miller transforms this material into portraits and scenes that evoke a strong emotional and nostalgic resonance. With an extensive career in the United States, his work blends technical mastery with a committed approach to reuse and collective visual memory. His work has been exhibited internationally and is part of both private and public collections.

Jordi Prat Pons (Barcelona, 1965)

Since the beginning of his artistic career, he has worked with paper, initially incorporating bottle labels onto his artworks, until collage became his preferred medium. He now also uses other materials such as books, metal sheets, or discarded construction materials. He began recycling unconsciously in the 1990s, and it has since become one of his trademarks.

Anna Roser (Cassà de la Selva, 1974)
Sculptor, painter, decorator, and educator with a socially committed perspective and a special interest in nature, particularly the underwater world. Her practice combines diverse artistic techniques with ecological awareness, creating pieces that evoke aquatic ecosystems and reflect on the planet's fragility. She has developed educational and artistic projects that promote sustainability and respect for the environment.

Hatice Rana Tarhangil Karadayi “Ranart” (Kutahya, Turquia, 1961)
Technical architect and visual artist, she takes advantage of reuse as a tool to raise awareness about environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Her works, often made with recycled materials such as metals, fabrics, or plastics, carry strong symbolic and critical meaning. She has exhibited in several countries and is an active member of creative networks related to the circular economy.

Josep M. Pastó (Les Borges Blanques, 1964)
Based in Sant Pere de Ribes, Josep M. Pastó combines his profession in telecommunications with a solid self-taught career in the visual arts. He works with wood, clay, and assemblage as a form of personal expression.

Raimon Soldevilla (Barcelona, 1961)
Industrial designer and artist, he combines his professional carreer in design with the creation of sculptures and objects made from recycled materials. His work reflects on consumerism and the passage of time, transforming industrial remnants into pieces that evoke memory and sustainability. He is a regular participant in recycled art circuits and has collaborated with organizations and festivals that promote sustainable art.

Helena Torres (Neuquén, Argentina, 1971)
Designer and creator with a long international career, she transforms unconventional materials and waste into fashion and interior design pieces. Her work stands out for the elegance of its forms, experimentation with textures, and a strong ecological sensitivity.

Judith Cunillera
Presents a sculptural series inspired by ritual dances and collective ceremonies from various cultures. Using turned wood and industrial objects, he creates symbolic figures that evoke memory, movement, and regeneration, showing a clear commitment to sustainability and critical reuse.

Mónica Draghi (Buenos Aires, 1966)
Argentinian architect and artist who builds visual narratives from textures and recycled materials. Her work invites us to find beauty in the imperfect and discarded, offering a poetic commitment to sustainability, respect for the natural cycle, and the symbolic transformation of what has been cast aside.

RichHARD HoffMAN (London, 1974)
Born in London and based in Sitges, his work is a visual satire infused with British humor. He subverts institutional symbols and formats, such as postage stamps, to address social issues with wit and critique. He has exhibited internationally in cities such as Miami, Singapore, and New York.

Lisa Rubin (Pittsburgh, USA, 1971)
American artist based in Barcelona who works with mixed media, found objects, and photography. Her work is a poetic mosaic on existence, blending organic and artificial elements to explore fundamental questions about consciousness and human nature.

Macarena Pinilla (Zaragoza, 1992)
She is a visual artist based in Sitges, exploring the connection between human beings and nature. Her abstract work emerges from meditative observation of the environment. She investigates cyclical forms shared with other living beings and reflects on the distorted relationship between society and the natural world.

Rosa Puig i Torres (Esparraguera)
Rosa Puig Torres is a multidisciplinary artist who works with recycled materials and found objects, giving them new visual narratives. Her work reflects on memory, the passage of time, and the transformation of matter. She combines collage, assemblage, and sculpture techniques with a poetic and critical perspective.

Sílvia Isach (Sant Pere de Riudebitlles, 1986)
Internationally recognized and awarded under the artistic name Sínoca for her digital architectural mapping works, she also creates analog collages in parallel, reusing paper and everyday materials as a creative act committed to the environment. Her portraits construct personal universes from forgotten fragments, blending chance and intention.

Eva Lovrics (Barcelona, 1961)
She is a visual artist born in Barcelona to a Spanish mother and a Hungarian father, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. After earning a degree in Humanities from McGill University in Montreal, she returned to Spain, where she has developed an extensive career as a creative director in advertising. Although not always exclusively, she has maintained a consistent artistic practice throughout her life.

Aina Lúa (Barcelona, 1988)
Founder of the project Precious Plastic Nomads, she lives in Piera and combines art and activism to promote sustainable alternatives and raise awareness about the environmental crisis. A multidisciplinary artist active in graphic design, VJing, body painting, and performance, she blends spiritual symbolism, sacred geometry, and reflections on nature and emotion in collaborative projects and live visuals.

Marisa Domínguez (Buenos Aires, 1969)
She is a visual artist with additional training in fire arts and applied arts such as printmaking, Tiffany glass, and screen printing, focused on the poetic transformation of discarded objects. Her work reinterprets the imagery of classic fairy tales through a critical and contemporary lens, exploring sustainability, identity, and the hidden beauty in what is cast aside.

Alejandra Bourda (Buenos Aires, 1969)
Alejandra Bourda trained with renowned Argentine glass artists such as Rita Newmann and Mabel Waisman. She currently explores the secret life of flowers after they wither, preserving them through artisanal techniques. Her work unveils a sensory universe full of textures and colors, transforming flowers collected from different parts of the world into unique pieces such as hats, headbands, earrings, and rings. Her creations fuse nature, memory, and ephemeral beauty.

Onyis Martin (Kisumu, Kenya, 1987)
Kenyan artist working from Nairobi. His work examines urban landscape, migration, and communication through murals, collage, and installations. Projects like Talking Walls confront tensions between consumerism, freedom of expression, and collective memory.

Patrick Tagoe-Turkson (Accra, Ghana, 1978)
Renowned Ghanaian artist who transforms flip-flops found in the sea into works that reference traditional Kente fabric and the migratory stories of West Africa. His vibrant and critical work combines art, ecology, and memory, turning waste into high-impact visual archives.

Ocean Sole (Nairobi, Kenia, 2006)
The name Ocean Sole plays with the words “sole” and “soul”, which sound the same. It is a social enterprise from Kenya that stands out for combining environmental awareness with the creation of art and the generation of employment. It organises beach and waterway clean-ups, reuses tons of flip flops in artwork and decorative objects and employs more than 800 people.

The actions of this initiative want to make a difference in the difficult situation of the oceans and their spirit is to return what they earn to change the lives of many, through employment, education and food.

Often these actions go viral on social media and this is how Drap-Art discovered this initiative in 2006 and collaborates with it, since 2018.