Shoko Matsuki is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. She’s focusing on drawing and recognizes herself as an illustrator. But! She’s not afraid of exploring other things! She was working on Lino–Cutting/Printmaking during her stay. Although, she was working on sketches and was building up her project focused on the disconnection from rest of the world. Project was researching the haunting feeling of belonging nowhere which started for Shoko when she was 14 years old and is still there.

/ More of her artwork /
http://www.shokomatsuki.com
Check out the interview about her stay here:

Thank you Shoko!

Anna Choutova is 22 year old Swedish painter based in London. She chose our residency because the idea of isolation, remoteness and disconnection from outer world and cities seemed to be suitable at the time.

“In London I was getting so anxious of city living and there was just no time for yourself, even if you’re alone – you still had all the noise of the outside world just in your head.. And my work was just becoming super effected by living in urban place. I knew exactly what my paintings would be before I even did them and just started killing my love for my art, so I though -ok – I need total change of atmosphere, I need somewhere where I can just be in quiet and not have distractions and then see what comes out. So I came here.”

Anna was working on paintings that hopefully will be included in her upcoming exhibition in London called “BAD ART 2”. You can read more about exhibition here:

BAD ART by DAZED: http://bit.ly/2dxvex1
BAD ART by NOTION: http://bit.ly/2dYCTGq

BAD ART 2 by Creators Project: http://bit.ly/2d8bEGM
BAD ART 2 by NOTION: http://bit.ly/2dQN2zO

/ Check her artwork /
http://www.annachoutova.com

Full interview with Anna is on our YouTube channel:

https://youtu.be/iFg8b9wWVPA?list=PLv37xlpmRFDiQcfMATVKxD6OaH3H3XYhm

Thank you Anna!

Jesús Portal  is an ‪artist‬ from Spain and stayed in ‪Art Residency‬ for August. He’s an art teacher and writing an art education book for High–School students in Spain. The architecture of town, villages of Iceland and Fish Factory has been the main source of inspiration. Camera, music and Stöðvarfjörður was combined into the mural he was working.

The main creative field he is working on – artistic education. His education is linked to being an artist in contemporary art, visual culture. This book is being produced by Jesús himself and his one of the good friends Lucia Ordoñez.
Everybody loves Iceland for its’ nature: mountains, waterfalls, glacier and so on. So do I, but my artistic background so connected to architecture and geometry, so I fell in love with the architecture of this place, that’s why I decided to do a mural inspired by the nature’. All the small details of the architecture: color, corners, frames, fences joined in one dialog for a mural. The outcome seemed to become surrealistic abstract new village.

Jesús’s educational blog: https://saberversaberhacer.wordpress.com
more of his artwork: www.jesusportal.es

here’s an interview with Jesús:

Thank You, Jesús!

Benjamin Whitney Buhl is a third–year MFA program student at University of South Florida, USA, specialises in Multidisciplinary program in found object sculpting. Ben choose our Factory for Residency because of, as he says ‘Vibe’ – he was feeling really fitting in our ‘always in progress’ mood.

‘The less distractions – the better for the residency’ he says. This is why Iceland was a good country to book residency in – just silence in artistic chaos. Ben was getting energy from fjord’s mountains that surround residency and getting greener and greener everyday he stayed here. The endless openness of Atlantic Ocean at the end of the fjord was one of the ‘extremely intensely beautiful’ things that Ben did not expect before his arrival..

Full story from Ben’s lips in interview bellow:

Thank you Ben!

Nele is a contemporary artist from Hamburg, Germany. She stayed with us during the months of May, June and July 2016. Her field of work is new media, from installations made with textile, to works of photography, audio and video. During her period of residency she did a lot of audio recordings in the surroundings and started to make an science-fiction audioplay, connected to the nature of Iceland. Also she took a lot of photographs and was fascinated by the strange fog of Stödvafjördur that inspired her very much to pick up the pencils and draw again.

Thank you Nele!

Marine Schneider is an illustrator from Brussels, Belgium. She came to the Fish Factory as an Artist in Residency in June 2016 with a specific project in mind, but the impact that the surrounding landscapes and the factory itself had on her made her change her mind completely. She started to experiment with wood, by turning her drawings on paper into 3D sculptures made out of leftovers wood. Quickly, the sculptures became less and less controlled and more and more inspired by the shapes of the pieces of wood she could find.

Marine´s web site:  http://marineschneider.com/

Thank you, Marine!

Lavinia Hanachiuc is a Romanian-born ceramic artist and fine art photographer. She stayed with us during May 2016. Her work originates from an organic mélange of eastern European folklore and superstitions, Latin blood and memories from a childhood lived under an oppressive political regime. Her work is at times following the materials and it’s very short lived , designed to interact with the audience at community events.    Hanachiuc  has resided in the United States since completing her university studies and has continued to create art and teach the thrill of chasing ideas and making beautiful objects to a wide audience. She is based in Ann Arbor , Mi.

check out more of her work: https://www.etsy.com/people/almapottery

Here you can watch an interview we did with her:

Thank you, Lavinia!

Marisa is a contemporary jeweller and artist from Tasmania, Australia but currently lives in Norway. She undertook a residency in May 2016 to research the coastline of the east coast of Iceland. Her practice focuses on the appropriation and translation of textures and fragments, collected from walks along island shorelines. What is found is an interesting reflection on the island’s coast. Often it explores migration, plastic debris from industry, geology, marine life etc. Marisa takes the fragments and their secret narratives in the studio and translates them into wearable objects.

By doing so, she creates a collective and visual dialogue about an island, as each island is unique.

Check out more of her work: See more of her work:
http://marisamolin.com/

Watch Marisa´s interview here:

Thank you, Marisa!