The first scholarship recipient of the Molini di Triora creative residency is printmaker Riina Uisk.
A creative residency dedicated to the memory of Estonian artists Malle Leis (1940-2017), Villu Jõgeva (1940-2019) and Andrus Joonas (1970-2021), which was recently established in Molini di Triora by Sandra Jõgeva, Henrik Jõgeva and Triinu Keskpaik, the founders of The Road to the Lost City, decided to award a kind of scholarship to the first resident by covering her travel expenses.
Born in 1977, she received her master’s degree in graphic and interdisciplinary arts from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Riina Uisk has participated in exhibitions as well as designed books and art objects. Several times, her books have been selected as one of the 25 most beautiful books in Estonia. Riina Uisk has compiled, designed and illustrated the Muhu Oabitsa (2021) together with literary scholar and semiotician Kadri Tüür, who is also the founder of the Muhu Heritage School. Riina is from Muhu and is fluent in the local language. Together with Juhani Püttsepp and Hilja Kull, she co-authored the children's book Sõnatrikid (2018). Riina Uisk has also become interested again in letterpress printing, especially linocut, with which she had no proper contact with during her university days. She is interested in simplicity in art.
Riina Uisk plans to use her time at the Molini di Triora residency this summer to work on her upcoming series of children's books focusing on children who are forced to live with rare diseases including by preparing her designs for the linocuts for the books.
