Arrate Rodriguez Martin is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer, collagist, video maker, book lover and devoted reader from a small city in the Basque Country, called Errenteria. She graduated in Fine Arts in Bilbao and then in Creative Illustration at Eina school in Barcelona. She finished a Master’s degree on Ceramics in 2023.
She started as a freelance illustrator back in 2006, from then on she has been developing her art in different ways, such as her personal work and since In 2014 she created Savanna studioa, with Carlos Ndungmandum.
She enjoys blurring the lines between disciplines, combining fiction and autobiography, so you can never tell what is real and what is not. Her work is closely connected to literature; understanding books as a physical object, or translating their content into images.
She is also interested in the concept of unheimlich. She loves a big fire.
She lives and works between Bilbao, Bizkaia and Hendaia, French Basque Country.
