GRAND PRIZE | MAHNAZ YAZDANI
PUBLIC AWARD | NIKOLA LISTEŠ
ONLINE GALLERY
BOARD OF JURORS
Born and based in Turkey, a graduate from Izmir Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Dpt. of Visual Arts, where she earned her MA in visual arts education. Hilal is an independent cartoonist, currently teaching at the city of Izmir’s private art schools. Hilal has contributed to the Images of Justice political cartoon series since its conception. See her work here.
Ares was born in Havana 1963. His education included the study of medicine (Graduated in 1987) and psychiatry (Graduated in 1993). His first cartoon was published in 1984. Ares has made oil paintings and animated films; he currently works in Havana as a freelance artist and illustrator (mainly children’s books). His works have been published around the world. He has won 133 international awards and has published twenty two books. He has illustrated more than eighty books and has worked in TV and film with some of his works being used to make short animated films (Filminutos). In 1994, Ares was nominated by Witty World Magazine (USA) to be included in the list of the best cartoonists of the world, He is included in the survey of the Twenty Most Outstanding Cuban Cartoonists Of The 20th Century. In 2002, Ares received the National Culture Medal from the Cuban Cultural Minister. Ares has been part of Images of Justice series since 2019. See more of his work here.
Ramon Blanco Barrera, from the University of Seville, the Faculty of Fine Arts, is a visual artist with the name ‘233’. Ramon sends social and political messages in order to make people reflect on their communities, both local and universal, constantly bringing up human rights concepts and values. He uses the number ‘233’ in reference to the ‘identity game’ of our overpopulated world system. His artworks have been exhibited all over the world; one of his recent projects, ‘THE UNIVERSAL GAME. One flag to connect us all’, an outreach art project from the HRREC at the uOttawa, marks the International Human Rights Day (December 10) through a message of union, diversity and rich global exchange and inclusivity. His other projects include: ‘Integração’ in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2014) and ‘Is this dangerous? The carry on version’ in Seville (Spain, 2015). Ramon has been awarded several grants, scholarships and artist residencies, working in the UK, Argentina, Western Sahara, Palestine, Brazil, Canada and the USA among others. He is the Winner of the Second Prize in the Crossing Borders International Competition by Emergent Art Space in San Francisco (USA) in 2012. Ramon is one of the Founders and Cultural Managers of ‘magenta BICYCLE’, a sustainable art and education project based in Cañada Rosal (Spain) and he has worked as production and artist assistant for the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition: La Biennale di Venezia (Italy) in 2013. Ramon has taught at the Winchester School of Art of the University of Southampton (UK) and nowadays he teaches Digital Image and Engraving at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Seville (Spain).
OUR PARTNERS
The HRREC is a co-founding partner of the festival continuing to contribute to the organization and delivery of this edition. Celebrating its 40th anniversary with Professor John Packer as the Centre’s Director, the HRREC has been a leading hub for creative and critical research and educational projects on various subject-matter including the arts and human rights. The HRREC provides an excellent platform for our public exhibition and interorganizational dissemination, publication and promotion of the festival. More information on the Centre is available at: Arts and Human Rights Programme.
The Shift is a global movement aiming to ‘shift’ and change the discourse on the right to housing. The Shift, recognizing housing as a human right—not a commodity or an extractive industry—restores the understanding of housing as home and challenges the ways financial actors undermine the right to housing. Using a human rights framework, The Shift provokes action to end homelessness, unaffordability, and evictions globally. The Shift’s Global Director is Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing. A lawyer by training, Ms Farha has helped develop global human rights standards on the right to housing, including through her topical reports on homelessness, the financialization of housing, informal settlements, rights-based housing strategies, and the first UN Guidelines for the implementation of the right to housing. She is the central character in the documentary PUSH regarding the financialization of housing, currently screening around the world. Ms Farha launched The Shift in 2017 with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and United Cities and Local Government. For more information on The Shift, see: https://www.make-the-shift.org/
The Lincoln Alexander School of Law is the culmination of years of planning, legal consultation and approvals, but it started as a belief that this institution’s innovative approach to learning should be applied to the study of law.