In 2021, the first workshop of the pilot phase of PescArt Menorca was held with the aim of finding artists and artisans from the island who wanted to participate in the project. In this first meeting, Plastic Free Menorca and Menorca Preservation team met Magda Triay, Caramuixes, Júlia Triay and Sílvia Vivó: the first artisans to join the initiative and whose dedication and talent were vital to defining its viability.
From the beginning, these magnificent local artisans started to work and designed the first PescArt Menorca products, while little by little they made these creations known to the public through their points of sale and social networks. Given the interest generated and as a culmination of this initial phase, all the effort and work behind the initiative was promoted through an exhibition held in various towns on the island through which more than 900 visitors were reached.
Currently, there are several people from the artistic union who, in one way or another, have approached the project to get to know it, take some fishing nets and start experimenting. And it is that fishing nets are a very resistant material, with a great variety of colours and textures. Providing manual skill and imagination, the uses that can be given to them, to give them a second life in this way, are endless.
Júlia Triay - Julia8783 - is a fashion designer and knitter. She uses fishing nets to make bags and accessories. The world of fashion is one of the most polluting on our planet and Júlia wants to do her bit to change this, working on recycling materials, along with natural materials, and making timeless and quality products.
Moda y complementos
Shop: ArtSpai (Fornells)
Margarita Febrer and Ángeles Barber, the people behind Ànima Complements, make handmade bags by recycling fabrics, leathers from Menorca factories and fishing nets.
Bags and accessories
María del Mar Triay Roselló recovers roots and wood from the sea and the land. She cleans, polishes and waxes them, and then, with the threads extracted from the nets, she makes braids to create original keychains. With the different threads she also makes bracelets and necklaces, decorates bottles and pots with nets and shells.
Ecologina is an ethical fashion brand that has been working for 15 years recovering high-quality fabrics obtained from vintage clothing and surplus Italian luxury brands, which would otherwise be destined for landfill. Since moving to Menorca, she fell in love with Pescart's project and made a colorful raincoat made with rescued umbrellas. The first prototype of different creations that can be ordered, Ecologina can customize her models with colours and small changes to satisfy the client's needs.
With more than 20 years of experience, Sílvia Vivó (Syf-artesana) is a multifaceted artisan. Over the years, she has evolved influenced by the challenges that her own clients have requested. Her work is based, above all, on the personalised, adapting her experience to various materials and techniques to achieve what was agreed upon. She is monitor of various courses related to art, crafts and decoration.
Magda Triay is a craftswoman and multidisciplinary artist. Committed to sustainability, she often works with recycled materials. Following her collaboration with pescArt, and aware of the need to reuse fishing nets discarded by the island’s fishermen, she is developing her project XARXES, where she creates artistic tapestries made entirely from nets. Magda is also a painter and workshop facilitator in various disciplines.
Yolanda López Segura – Certified Teacher of the Zentangle Method (meditation through drawing). Yolanda has always had the illusion of taking part in PescArt. She has achieved this with her artisan frames that combine three elements: the Zentangle world, discarded fishing nets and Menorcan motifs. The frames are filled with fishing nets that can be seen through a small transparent window.
Del mar a la pisada: redes que cuentan historias. Este proyecto nace del deseo de dar una nueva vida a los materiales que el mar ya no necesita. A partir de redes de pesca en desuso, recuperadas directamente de los pescadores de Menorca, creamos calzado con una identidad única, donde tradición y sostenibilidad se fusionan en cada detalle. Cada diseño es una exploración de texturas y contrastes.