Residency artists and researchers Painting, drawing, printmaking Petra Mutka artist, painter Artist Petra Mutka (os. Tiisala) (born 1975) lives and works in Helsinki. Petra stayed at the Saari Residence in early 2008, shortly after it first opened. ‘While at the Residence I painted, went for walks, picked mushrooms and got to know nice people: it was the ideal place for all those things. The work I did at the Saari Residence formed the basis for an exhibition to be held at Helsinki’s Galleria Sinne in October and November 2009.’ ‘The 2008 works displayed on my WEBSITE were done at the Saari Residence’. Petra Mutka worked at the Saari Residence in September and October 2008.