Catie stayed with us during the month of November 2015. She is the founding principal of the art and architecture firm, Alibi Studio and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. Her work and research captures spaces and material effects, focusing on the development of atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light and darkness.Newell’s creative practice has been widely recognized for exploring design construction and materiality in relationship to location and geography, and cultural contingencies.

Before joining the University of Michigan as the Oberdick Fellow in 2009, Newell was a project designer at Office dA in Boston.

You can see more about her here:
http://www.cathlynnewell.com

Oscar is an illustrator from Taipei who stayed with us during September 2015. He studied information management in university and barely painted or do some artworks before 2011. He says he started painting in 2011 because of a heart-broken accident. Initially, he just wanted to paint something to release sorrow. In the process, he found there was so much fun in painting. He started posting works on the internet and then received some positive feedbacks. In his experience, he learned how to paint after painting. During his residency here he was interested  about the melting of the Arctic Sea.

To see his work:
http://www.oscartsai.com/

Émilie Bernard was a Canadian artist who was here during August and September 2015.
Her motivation to come to the Residency was influenced by a previously stay in Iceland, which affected a lot her way of making art. Émilie worked in a lot of drawings coming from an sculpture background and using elements to create motifs and patterns, repeating simple lines, shapes and forms to compose complex images.

You can see more of the project she developed with us and her other interesting work here:
http://emilie-bernard.com/home.html

Jessica stayed with us for a month in the summer, August 2015. She comes from the US and she says she is continually in the search for “light and laughter”, which she certainly brought to us. Jessica is interested in imagined landscapes and creatures from faraway places. Her time at the Residency was an approach for her to the “landscape of the soul”, working in a lot of medias: ceramic, drawing, painting and installations…

You can see more of her wide work and her biography here:
http://www.jessicagaddis.com/

Meet Jessica here:

Thank you, Jessica!

Grace Fechner is an Artist from the United States. She stayed with us for the summer months of June, July and August in 2015. During her stay Grace made a brilliant mural that now brightens the hallway in the Factory.

If you want to see more of her works you can visit www.gracefechner.net

Olivia Hancock is an Artist and a Writer from England and she spent May – June 2015 with us working on her paintings and novel. Olivia was also fond of the attic in the factory and spent some good times up there splashing some paint around while working on her big paintings.

Olivia showed some of her works in the Factory during her stay and you can see them and many more here: www.olivia-hancock.tumblr.com

Olivia´s interview here!

Thank you, Olivia!

Veit Schmoll is a German photographer who spent the April of 2015 with us and made some pretty impressive installations for his photo shootings up on the attic of the factory. He spent most of his stay in a thermal overall (except when he played the drums), although the attic is aesthetically interesting and photogenic, it is also freezing cold in that season! 

Here www.veitschmoll.com and here www.veitschmollphotography.tumblr.com  you can see some of his works and here www.soundcloud.com/phyte you can find his musical creations.

Veit talking about his experience as an Artist in Residency here:

Thank you, Veit!

Jeff Godfrey is an American Artist based in New York and spent the month of March 2015 with us working on his paintings and music.

One of the first things Jeff did after he arrived here was to perform his music on a concert held in the Factory Concert Hall.  Jeff makes music under the name of Hollowbones and here you can hear some of that: www.hollow-bones.bandcamp.com  …and here you can take a look at his artworks: www.jcgodfrey.wordpress.com

Susannah Bolton is a Scottish Artist who stayed with us during September 2014, and so did Amanda R. Wieczorek, her next door neighbor in the great city of London. Despite that the two of them had never meet before, until fate decided to introduce them to each other here in the East of Iceland :)

Here below you can see a short interview with her and Amanda.

If you want to get to know Susannah’s works you can visit www.susannahbolton.com

Amanda R. Wieczorek is an American Artist based in London. She stayed with us during September 2014, and funnily enough so did her next door neighbor Susannah Bolton. The two of them got to know each other for the first time during their stay and a bond of friendship was created. Here below you can see a short interview with her and Susannah.

If you want to see some of Amanda’s works you can take a look at www.amandawieczorek.com