Fish Factory

Joel Crosswell is a contemporary artist from Tasmania, Australia. While drawing and sculpture often form the foundation of his practice, his artistic process is highly exploratory, with a broad and evolving material language. His work frequently traverses themes of identity, the human condition, and the metaphysical, with an affinity for figurative work and narrative-driven forms.…

Alix McIntosh is a photographer based in Edinburgh. Her work explores landscape and the quiet traces of human presence within everyday spaces and environments. I came to the Fish Factory wanting to slow down and make work away from the pace of everyday life. The winter landscape and shifting weather shaped my days around walking…

Kajsa Wingerup is a Swedish-American visual artist with a speciality in portrait photography. During her Photography B/A in Edinburgh, her long-term documentary and fine art projects explored themes of identity, strength, and vulnerability, focusing primarily on small niche communities with diverse subjects and exploring the layers that make up their personalities. Her time at Fish…

Emma Todd is an installation artist from Virginia, USA, working with multilayered, phenomenological, and playful approaches to space-making. As part of the November artist residency, she spent a transitional winter period incubating in eastern Iceland, in its beautiful, complex landscape where a poignant sense of isolation paired with a warm togetherness at the Fish Factory.…

Alex Tam is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Colorado but calls sunny Los Angeles home now. He works mainly in digital forms such as photography and graphic design and most recently has found great fulfilment working in the physical medium of clay. He spends most of his time on the wheel exploring various closed and…

Andrea Cormier is a singer-songwriter based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During her time at the Fish Factory, Andrea spent her days in Studio Silo where she wrote and recorded new songs for her next album. She also took the opportunity to cut a 7 inch vinyl, make prints in the darkroom, and learn how to…

joj (they/them @jojthefirst) is a France-based American nonbinary writer of creative nonfiction. They are a self-described collector of underutilized graduate degrees, the most recent (2020) an MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University. Their work explores themes of place, class, queerness, parenthood, infant loss, plant medicine, and the nomadic/peripatetic. Their writing has appeared in Insider,…

I attended the Fish Factory Artist residency with the intention of interviewing people about how they balance caring for the earth and taking care of themselves. I then planned to write essays and create art in response to the interviews. All of that happened, but my project doesn’t even begin to capture the vastness of…

Eve Gittins is multidisciplinary visual artist, who is currently studying a masters in animation at the School of Digital Art in Manchester, England. Working with tactile mediums her artistic outlet over the last few years has taken the form of paper mache masks. Eves’s focus has now sized down, as she focuses on puppetry and…

Jess Distill is a multi discipline artist and singer/songwriter from England.  Fascinated by sound and texture, Jess’ art is inspired by nature, literature, philosophy, history and the human condition and explores our relationships with each other and the world around us. Whilst in Iceland, Jess explored the nature around her by collecting sound recordings  texture rubbings and macro…

Helena Barnes (b1992) is a painter living in the North East of the Scottish Highlands. She works primarily in oils and acrylics on panel and unprimed canvas, and is interested in how material behaviour — absorption, layering, removal, and viscosity — can evoke the shifting, unstable, and liminal qualities of landscape. The slowness of oil…

BEAM is a new kind of climate institution — part creative studio, part research lab, part public imagination engine. Founded by Annie Chen and Zoe Lee, BEAM approaches the climate crisis as both a planetary emergency and a cultural inflection point—one that demands new connective tissue between science, technology, ecology, and society. Their work investigates…

Janine van Veen is an artist from the Netherlands who works with video and performance art. She was an artist-in-residence in September 2025. “I went to Iceland with my own polka-dotted van (for those interested: inspired by Pippi Longstocking’s horse and the work of Yayoi Kusama). After one week of slow traveling, I arrived at…

Eleanor Sykes is an illustrator and author based in Scotland. Working predominantly with mixed media on paper, she brings together themes of traditional folk practice and childhood imagination through her storytelling imagery. She spent her residency filling a small collection of empty sketchbooks with quick and intuitive drawings that were inspired by an entirely new…

Jane Affleck is a is a writer and artist based in Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island (PEI), which is on the east coast of Canada and part of Mi’kma’ki, the unceeded lands of the Mi’kmaq people. Jane has taught undergrad-level writing, English lit, and art history courses. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The Great…

Montana van Duijn is a Maine based artist who interacts with her world through performance, video, and natural landscapes. Her work is based around finding her spirituality through the connection she can find through body based contact to the natural world. This is often shown through video based pieces, and installations. During her time at…

Nick Wishart is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work merges sound, light, and movement. Using custom-built electronic instruments, sensors, and code, he creates immersive performances and installations that transform gesture and environment into audiovisual experiences. His practice explores the boundaries between technology, art, and play. “I had an incredible time at the Fish Factory residency,…

Geertje Brandenburg, is a Dutch artist who works with installation, collage, text, and craft. In artworks built up from her extensive visual archive, Geertje questions the versatility of identity. As someone named after several people Geertje interweaves herself with others, presenting a version of the truth that fluctuates between myth and a half-remembered moment. Geertje’s…

Madelyn Gowler is a queer, film-based artist focusing on materiality and experimental processes of image making. They are currently residing in the Canadian prairies – Winnipeg, MB and received their BFA from the University of Manitoba. They mainly work with textiles, installation, super 8 film, and analog photography. Their practice focuses on meditative processes of…

Daria, a Ukrainian artist, sketcher, and visual storyteller currently based in Czechia. My month at the residency felt like an art adventure, a rare chance to fully dive into my practice. Coming from Ukraine, landscapes hold a therapeutic weight for me, and painting them in bold colors became a way to process both movement and…

The Land Rover – a temporary sculpture When I came to the fish factory I had the intention of making a UFO. This sort of happened, but so did lots of other things. I did a collaboration with Rachel Saxby. I handed over some test videos and we discussed how she could play with the…

Tania Joanna Van Hoofstadt is a Belgian mixed media artist. Originally trained as an architect, she found herself craving more creative freedom—and about 20 years ago, she turned to sculpture and painting. Since then, her work has evolved into a tactile exploration of texture, color, and material. From moss and lichen to metal scraps and engine…