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 stop motion animation for a short, experimental film which will be released later this year. Working with themes of folklore, feminine identity and the male gaze to produce an otherworldly, bizarre and freakish delight for the eyes and ears.

August 2025 was Eve’s second visit to the Fish Factory, she used the time as an intense pre-production period for her film. Working on her stop motion puppet, concept art and a live action segment of the film which the other artists kindly helped with up in the hills. Her first visit back in 2023 inspired her current project, so revisiting to work on the film felt like an amazing opportunity. Using the idyllic landscape for inspiration and being a consistent reminder of our inherent connection to nature helped ground her project.

“The studio and the artists I shared it with was the perfect space to focus on my film, Kris and Vid were so sweet and accommodating too. It’s a proper passion project. I loved being there during blueberry season as well, free snacks straight from the ground on our hikes was amazing, all hail the Fish Factory!”