Residency artists and researchers Painting, drawing, printmaking Ilkka Väätti Visual artist, researcher I’m a veteran artist who works mostly with paint, but I also work do graphic art and architectonic sculptures occasionally. I work as a part-time instructor at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Lahti University of Applied Sciences, and am currently chair of the board of the Finnish Artists’ Studio Foundation. I’m a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Arts on the University of Lapland, in my work for the doctorate includes the PhD thesis itself and two broad bodies of exhibited work. The PhD thesis consists of two parts: small-scale studies on the cultural history of the centre of the Earth, and an annotated document of my own artistic work. I worked on these projects during my stay at the Saari Residence.