Iris Tonies
Iris Tonies (1975, Zeist, Holland) is a dutch artist. Travelling is closely entwined with her work. Therefore she calls herself a nomadic artist. She lives on a sailing ship. She sails, arrives in a port, plants her roots on the shore, sets foot by making art and then leaves for the sea again. After she finished art academy in Utrecht, she had several exhibitions in Holland, during which she refurbished a classic sailing ship to a live-a-board. After half a year of living on board Melquiades, she pushed off from Marina Seaport near Amsterdam to sail around western-Europe to Port Vell in Barcelona. In Barcelona she started an exhibition- and working complex for travelling artists, Estudio Nómada. Here she makes her art and organizes exhibitions of travelling related artwork in cooperation with other nomadic artists.