Fish Factory

Laura Nygren is a classical double bassist in recovery, now focused on experimental music practices, voice, and creating through acts of care. A returning resident to Fish Factory, her first visit in 2019 inspired her to create her avant-pop act Show Pony, she returned this past April to develop her new work, Glisten, together with collaborator…

Lisa Wood is a visual artist, mother and partner from Scottish-Icelandic ancestry living in Treaty 2 Territory, Canada (Brandon, Manitoba). Her figurative art practice—shaped by her upbringing with her single mother and her life-long chronic health conditions—broadly investigates inclusion, marginalization and interpersonal connections (lisawood.ca). She exhibits her painting and prints nationally and internationally, and currently…

Naomi Ison is a Woven Textile Designer and Printmaker based in Nottingham, UK.   My practice explores shadow imagery and ephemeral moments. I am interested in how these fleeting moments offer momentary connection with our surrounding environment, an opportunity for calm in the turbulence and busyness of contemporary life.    Prior to arriving at the…

Amy Hill is a multidisciplinary image maker based in the South West of England. Whilst in Stöðvarfjörður, my practice helped ground me. I would make marks of the beautifully unfamiliar landscape of mountains and ocean, and the blurred snow scape from the minibus window en route to get groceries from Bónus. My writing practice became…

Alli Blakeman is a South Louisiana ceramic artist with a focus in figurative sculpture. Their process integrates the subconscious repurposing of internal dialogue of identity and southernculture. Their work explores the contrast of humor and horror in response to the narratives within their sculptures. Their time at Fish Factory was spent drawing inspiration from the…

Lise Borel is French composer and singer living in Paris. She teaches composition at Radio France Professional Children Choir and has written for musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Philippe Jaroussky, El Sistema Orchestra… Her pieces were performed in Notre Dame, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, the Eiffel Tower… Lise also sings her own compostions : she…

Martina Solárová Pauleová is visual artist from Slovakia. She loves nature,art and people. I was happy finding this combo in Iceland,at residency Fish Factory. Here I work on project Flying Time. Flying like a fish-bird? And then I developed that theme using different materials and meanings. Each piece extends the narrative, shifting between the personal…

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…