Matt Stober is a multi-instrumentalist/composer from the East Coast of the United States. In July 2025 he returned to the Fish Factory for the second time. In addition to his solo work under his own name, he is the creator of the post-rock/math-rock Instrumental band, In-Dreamview. While there he recorded a 17 track instrumental album,…

During my residency at The Fish Factory this July, I developed a sound-art project called Teel-Dah, which aims to redefine how sound can be used as a tool for healing. Inspired by ancient sound healing traditions, the project explores the therapeutic effects of natural sounds and frequencies on mental health. I focused on capturing field…

Orli Swergold is a Brooklyn–based artist and curator whose hand-wrung paper-pulp paintings—applied to wood and metal substrates—investigate physicality by balancing the rigor of manual labor with delicate, up-close patterning. Treated as organismic entities, their wobbly or outstretched gestures reach beyond the rectangle to elicit empathy on a humanoid level. For Swergold, painting is serious play:…

Lex is a composer, theatre-maker and sometimes-visual-artist living on Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). “On approaching my time in Iceland, I knew I wanted to learn more about the Hidden People. I’m interested in cultures that interact with nature spirits as a way to make sense of hostile environmental conditions. As human-driven climate change is making…

Kiley Brandt (MFA) is a video artist from North Carolina. In her work, Brandt attempts to inspire empathy through sound, poetry and immersive installation to better communicate dissatisfaction with the current political climate and the uncertain displacement many feel within it. Her research areas include diaspora, adoption, immigration and Mexican/American Border politics. She was a…

Jessie Kilguss is a singer, songwriter and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has released 5 albums, most recently What Do Whales Dream About at Night in 2022. She sang harmony and played the harmonium with Freddie Stevenson, opening for the Waterboys all over Europe on their Modern Blues tour. Kilguss is a former actress who made the…

Brian Conery is a visual artist based in Richmond California, part of the Bay Area. June 2025 Before arriving at the Factory my practice was primarily about painting and works on paper. I came to Fish Factory wanting to explore abstraction more fully and also respond to any direct experiences here. At once I found…

Simon Berz is a transdisciplinary artist, drummer, and sound researcher from Switzerland who explores the intersection of natural environments, geology, and contemporary sound art. During a residency in Iceland in 2015, he began working intensively with Icelandic basalt stones—materials millions of years old—and developed the TECTONIC instrument, which combines these stones with real-time electronic processing.…

Mariam Gouverneur Mckeown is a writer currently living in Suffolk, United Kingdom. She writes poems, essays and stories (in that order) about the things she sees and feels. *** For me, one of the most difficult things about being a creative person is coming to terms with it. How silly it sounds sometimes to hear…

Shelley Simpson is a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She attended the residency after completing her PhD. “It is a long journey from Aotearoa to Iceland. I was interested to think about what it means to be a guest or manuhiri in such a place- so far from my home. In my creative practice…

Peter Klett is an artist based in Washington State, USA. Through video, photography, sound, and woodworking, my work reflects on the layered ambiguities of our relationships—with ourselves, those around us, the things we carry, and the environments we inhabit—and how these entanglements guide and complicate our search for meaning. During my residency, I began working…

Fien Brakkee is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work is a poetic and sensitive exploration of the physical and spiritual relations between the landscapes that surround us and the landscapes that live within us. Inspired by the ephemeral evidence of memory, vivid yet untouchable atmosphere of place and the sometimes elusive elements…

my month long residency at fish factory was an entirely unexpected journey. before getting here, i was at a residency in rural finland, wondering where i would go next. in the quiet winter and a deep conversation with my grandpa rock friend, i asked myself: “if i don’t have to worry about money or anything,…

Martina Solárová Pauleová is a visual artist from Slovakia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in 1998. In her life, she has welcomed her sunny sons: Tadeáš, Martin, and Kristian. In my recent work, the passage of time and shifts in scale play a central role. The piece is composed of…

Marina Guiu Almenara is a multidisciplinary artist working in visuals and theatre, based in Barcelona. Using arts as political activism for children’s rights and against sexual violence to women. Through illustration, painting, printmaking, writing, and performing theatre, she seeks to generate a tension between the poetic and the political creating a bridge between the social…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…