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Shannon Renner
Shannon is a US ceramicist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her focus during residency consisted of a compilation of lighthearted experiments as she attempted to push the envelope of color, canvas, form and purpose. Shannon’s work often surrounds themes of queerness, femininity, aging and humor. To her, ceramics serves as a vessel for exploration, curiosity and…
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Alexandre Lapointe Thibault (LeRøux)
Alexandre Lapointe Thibault (LeRøux) is a multidisciplinary artist from Quebec, Canada, working at the intersection of music and video. During his Residency at the Fish Factory, he worked on instrumental piano compositions deeply influenced by nature, drawing inspiration from the vast and rugged landscapes of Iceland. Routine and repetition emerge as key themes, evoking the…
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Risa Horowitz
The Fish Factory is a badass, fabulously outfitted DIY oasis of a space for art and culture. I loved working within a multinational group of artists practicing in a range of media—from ceramics and drawing to electronic synth and neo-classical music composition and video. I loved being a part of this amazing community built by…
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Scott Murphy
Visual and recording artist Scott Murphy stayed at Fish Factory in February and March, continuing recording and mixing his debut collection of four EPs with his homemade 70’s-style modular synthesizer. Moody winter weather and long hours of darkness were the perfect companion with which to lose myself in sound and are reflected in its content.…
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Charlotte Searle
Iceland’s strangely familiar yet entirely new landscape has provided the space to play, contemplate, and freely explore my process without distraction or dictation. Its ever-changing landscape has seeped into my practice in ways I hadn’t expected, shaping my approach to material, repetition, and the unknown. Having access to a ceramics lab has revealed a curiosity…
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Ada Leenheer
Ada Leenheer is a mixed media artist based in the Netherlands. During my residency at the Fish Factory in February, I sought to move beyond the surface – both my internal and external landscape. Investigating the human condition, I embraced chaos and mystery, pushing each gesture and iteration to its limits, allowing chance and uncertainty…
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Ludovica Perosin
Ludovica Perosin is an artist based in Scotland. She works with the themes of humor, drama, solitude and playfulness.Mainly a print-maker, at Fish Factory worked on embroidery on paper.She hopes her pieces speak for themselves. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ludov/ Website: https://ludovicaperosin.co.uk/
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Chris Vola
Chris Vola is a writer and bartender based in New York. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA program, he is the author of two novels, a collection of short stories, three books of poems, a coffee-table conspiracy theory book, and three books of cocktail recipes. His most recent work is The Cocktail Atlas: Around…
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Kate Wurtzel
Kate Wurtzel (Ph.D) is a visual artist, art educator, and professor at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, United States. Her previous work focused on emergence, body movement while painting, and the importance of ritualization in the creative process for someone who is neurodivergent and has a physical disability. She initially went to the Fish…
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Jenni Brant
Based in Dubuque, Iowa – as Midwest USA as it gets – Jenni Brant is a ceramicist, arts administrator, and advocate for community-driven creative initiatives. Her clay work is recognized for its distinctive color palette, slip-trailing technique, and attention to ornamentation in functional pottery. During her November residency at the Fish Factory – Creative Centre,…
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Sydney Michelle Katz
I’m an American multimedia artist with a background in theatre, photography, cinema, stone carving and, most recently, clay. After graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, I left the acting world to study performance and media at the University of Texas at Austin and, later, filmmaking at…
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Tereza Kociánová
Tereza Kociánová, born in the Czech Republic and now residing in Akureyri, Iceland, is a visual and mixed textile artist. She holds a BA in Textile Design from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, and studied a MA in Print Textile from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. Additionally,…
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Lily Petch
Lily Petch is a visual, multidisciplinary artist and writer from Worthing/London UK. Her practice ruminates on the capacity writing has to outlive the human body. This takes visual form in text, land art and installation based work, embedded sensitively into rooms, institutions and environments. Her installations display fictional and poetic arrangements of objects centred around…
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LeeAnn Perry
LeeAnn Perry (she/they) is a speculative fiction writer, electronic musician, generative audiovisual artist, and scientist based in San Francisco. I initially came to the Fish Factory intending to work on fiction pieces, and as soon as I arrived I was inspired to experiment with form: I wrote a piece that took the form of a…
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Winter Break
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in 2024—it was such a bright and eventful year! Nearly 90 artists brought their creativity to Fish Factory, filling the year with inspiring art, music projects, and exhibitions. Without you, this place simply wouldn’t exist! As we head into 2025, we’re excited to continue working on our…
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Camilla Eustance
Camilla (she/they) is a Naarm-based multidisciplinary artist, sustainability advocate and learning designer. She has exhibited in multiple spaces including NOIR Darkroom, Counihan Gallery, Schoolhouse Studios, Platform Arts Geelong and Honey Bones Gallery. She is halfway through a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University. Camilla also has experience teaching art and painting murals. In 2024,…
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Elizabeth Evans
Elizabeth Evans is a multidisciplinary artist from California, US. The Fish Factory Artists Residency gave me the time and space to pursue artistic projects and questions that are important to me. I came to Iceland as a 2-dimensional collage artist but being in the center’s spaces with other artists engendered new directions in my thinking…
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Nancy Pilkington
Nancy Pilkington is an artist from Stanstead Abbotts, UK. During my stay at the fish factory I had a unique opportunity to gather myself creatively. I enjoyed testing the limits of my practice, learning a new skill and taking up an old one. I began working with clay which helped build my intuition. As I…
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Caroline Galderisi
Caroline Galderisi is a multimedia artist and photographer from Brooklyn, NY. Through layering and collage Caroline will continue this project back in NYC’s coastal areas to print cyanotypes on different objects such as driftwood and shipping containers. Website: https://galderisi.space/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinegalderisi
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Bailey Sherwood
Bailey Sherwood is an oil painter who resides in Newberg, Oregon. Over the last several years I have done work that engages in the interplay between the natural and the unnatural by incorporating stage pieces placed in natural environments. During my stay at the Fish Factory residency, I was interested in horror and sci-fi texts…
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Cula Bula
Cula Bula – Mixed Media Artist from Ireland I made my second visit to the Fish Factory this year, to honour some time out for my self. I had been working on getting my health on track and hoped to ease myself back into creativity after such a long break. I wondered around the landscape…
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Lucy Sherston
Lucy Sherston – an artist and illustrator living on the South Coast of the UK. My work often takes the form of digital collage, where I scan in hand painted elements and layer them together digitally. I think of my work as little fragments of a patchwork, that when pieced together build up a sense of…
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Arielle Brackett
Arielle Brackett is a metalsmith and educator based in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA in metals at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2017. She has shown nationally and internationally, including Canada, Romania, Russia and Finland. Brackett has been published in numerous books, magazines and online platforms including in Society of North…
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Riley Faulds
Riley Faulds is an environmental scientist in the streets, and a poet in the sheets. Originally from Whadjuk, Bindjareb and Wadandi Noongar Country on the west coast of Australia, he’s currently studying his doctorate in World Literatures at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on how the contrasting systems of colonial expansion in Australia,…