Mary Buckland // June, July, August 2018

Mary Buckland is an artist who works in multiple mediums, including embroidery, bookmaking, and various printmaking techniques.

She is from Yellowknife, Canada, and spent June, July, and August 2018 at the Fish Factory residency following her graduation from university.

During her time at the Fish Factory, her focus and inspiration were personal and communal memory intersecting with the landscape; and the erasure of memory through time and the elements.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Buckland // June, July, August 2018

// More of Mary Bucklands’s Work //

https://www.mary-buckland.com/

https://www.instagram.com/mary.makes.things/

Check out the interview here:

 

Thank you, Mary!

Sara Walters // July 2018

Sara Walters is a writer and Ph.D. student from East Tennessee who joined us at the Fish Factory in July of 2018. While in residence, Sara completed a draft of her yet-untitled young adult novel and worked on her doctoral research in the portrayal of trauma in the young adult genre.

Home in Tennessee, Sara is a full-time student and activist, working with liberal and democratic groups around the state, and advocating for the political arm of Planned Parenthood to promote access to affordable health care for women, LGBTQ+ people, and other marginalized groups. This activism feeds into her research on trauma, and how the language used to portray these stories impacts young women.

 

Sara Walters // July 2018

 

//More of Sara Walters’s Work//

https://saradoesthings.com/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/saradoesthings/

Check out the interview here:

Thank you, Sara!

Franck Sarfati// July 2018

Franck Sarfati is a sculptor from Brussels, Belgium who joined us here at the Fish Factory in July 2018.

He came here to focus on his Limoges porcelain sculpture projects for his upcoming solo show in Brussels and to experimenting new shapes and ideas.

While he is in the residency, except working in the shared studio, he also explored and inspired a lot of Iceland´s landscape and geology.

Franck Sarfati// July 2018

//More of Franck Sarfati’s Work//

www.francksarfati.be

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/francksarfati/

Check out the interview here:

Thank you, Franck!

Sally Richardson //  July 2018

Sally Richardson is a multiplatform artist, writer, director, performance maker and producer.

She is based in Perth, Western Australia and she joined us here at the Fish Factory for a month of July 2018 to focus on researching her solo creative practice and process and working in response to place and environment.

During her residency, she developed a number of projects with a focus on photographic, film and writing explorations.

Her thematic and philosophical focus being; ‘the melancholy blue of distance’ & exploring this in the context of Wabi-Sabi as a creative/artistic aesthetic.

Sally Richardson //  July 2018

//More of Sally Richardson’s Work//

Check out the interview here:

Thank you, Sally!