GND Fellows

Nueva Darsena Group Fellowship

The Nueva Darsena Group is a family catering and hospitality company in Cantabria, that has made the illusion, humility and quality the engine of its success. The group is formed by Posada Santa Ana, the restaurant La Dársena, the Hotel Mar Azul and Surf, the Surfances hotel and the Torres de Somo hotel.
The passion for art and its social commitment added to the desire that the archaeological heritage and the wonderful natural scenarios of Cantabria go beyond the borders has led them to grant an annual Fellowship consisting of 100% of the participation fee in the seminar Art in the Origin.

Fellow 2020

Christina Evans
Christina Evans is a LA-based Australian dance artist and actress who creates and performs multi-faceted creative works, primarily focussed on the issues of our time. Her solo piece ‘TOYS’, based on sex trafficking, was nominated for 7 awards (winning 3), at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival and debuted in New York at the 2018 International Human Rights Arts Festival. ‘TOYS’ was also performed across Australia, including a sell-out season at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. In 2010 she was awarded an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship, spending time in Antarctica researching Antarctic ice and its signs of climate change. From this spectacular experience she developed dance works ‘Polarity’ and ‘Body of Ice’, which were presented at Australian National University’s ‘Antarctica Festival’ in Canberra (2011), at Federation Square as part of the 2011 Melbourne Fringe Festival, and the ‘Art & Antarctica’ Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012). Her dance piece ‘Made In Australia’ explored sweatshop labor and was developed into a film that was a Best Dance Film finalist at the Australian Dance Awards. She performed with the acclaimed Tony Yap Company for two years, immersed in Butoh and site-specific dance, performing her solo ‘Elements’ at ‘MAP Fest’ amongst 800 year-old ruins in Melaka, Malaysia. In film, she has credits including the biggest Australian documentary of all time ‘That Sugar Film’, which explores the effects of a high-sugar diet on a healthy body. In additional to dozens of other roles, she recently filmed ‘Bezerk’, which delves into a harrowing mental illness. Christina spent most of her childhood performing and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) from the esteemed Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.   www.christina-evans.com
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Fellow 2019

Palma Christian Martínez
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
I begin my printmaking practice in the Engraving Workshop the Island of Gran Canaria. I have a degree in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca and a Masters in Science Illustration from the Institute of Education and Sciences of Lisbon. I am currently a doctorate student at the University of Salamanca and coursing by modules the Masters in Graphic Art at the Fundación CIEC (Center for Contemporary printmaking). I am a member of the Grafik I Väst gallery in Gothenburg, Sweden.  I have participated as a volunteer and in the Open Portfolio session at the International Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference Impact 10.
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