Željko Beljan (1984) graduated from the Department of Animated Film and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 2021. His interest encompasses craft, folk art, outsider art, traditional handiwork techniques, as well as the position and perception of handiwork in contemporary art. He is an alumnus of the WHW Academy Class of 2022 and a finalist for the 2023 Radoslav Putar Award. He exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad.