The Consell de Mallorca awarded the prizes on Wednesday, including a new honorary award this year: the Trajectory of Craftsmanship Award, which went to Guillem Bujosa.
The Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council) has awarded the Craftsmanship Awards of Mallorca 2024 to the chapel of La Misericòrdia on Thursday. The Tramuntana Viva project by the marble worker Miquel Busquets Escobar, from Esporles, was awarded the highest award, the Artesania de Mallorca Prize, which recognises excellence and sustainability in craftsmanship. This award has a monetary endowment of 7,000 euros.
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Marger Miquel Busquets wins the Craftsmanship Award of Mallorca 2024
The awards, which have given out 35,000 euros, now include a new honorary category: the Artisan Trajectory Award. The teixidor Guillem Bujosa Cañellas, from Santa Maria del Camí, has received this award, highlighting his more than 20 years of dedication to traditional weaving techniques and his contribution to Mallorca’s cultural heritage through the language telescopes.
As for the other winners, Raquel Pou Alarcón, a glassblower from Campos, won the Artisan Tradition Award (5,000 euros) with El Setrill, for keeping alive an artisan technique with a long history. The Campos jeweller Damià Mulet Vanrell has won the Artisan Design and Innovation Award (5,000 euros), with Brot de Taperera, a work that combines botanical tradition and modern design. Araceli Iranzo Placer from Llubí was awarded the Crafts Promotion Prize (5,000 euros) for her project Artesania Viva. Sowing Future, which promotes the transmission of craft knowledge between generations.
As for the Artisan Fashion Award (4,000 euros), the winner was Yolanda Beatriz Izquierdo de la Rosa from Capdepera for Barbara, an innovative work in fashion accessories. As for the Gastronomic Artisan Prize (4,000 euros), the winner was Nadal Lladó Juan, a forager from Campos, with Panada de 1940, a recipe that reinvents the traditional recipe for panada.
Finally, the Impuls Prize went to EASDIB student Jaime González García, from Calvià, with his work Pencas de Chumbera en Flor, which stands out for its originality and freshness.
The jury of the Artesania 2024 Awards also awarded three runners-up prizes of 1,000 euros each, highlighting the high quality of the works presented. The winners were Andratx guitar maker Fernando Luis Rubin Saglia Pereyra with Rèplica Guitarra Martin 1918; Palma silversmith Josep Antoni Ferrer Ferrà with Perdivera, and Palma blacksmith Onofre Martorell Ribera with Farcidets de Neula, Tradició i Modernitat.
A sector that is alive and has a future
The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, highlighted the success and quality of this edition and thanked the artisans for preserving the arrival of the island: ‘Mallorcan craftsmanship is a treasure that we must protect and I want to express my firm commitment to promote it and make it known’, he added.