Ed is from the USA and came to work with us for the summer of 2017. He is one of those people who can do just about anything as well as being a great company! During those summer months he installed a gearbox into the factory van with Vinny, took part in finalized the air conditioning system in Studio Silo and faced one of the biggest concrete fixings on the building that we have ever undertaken.

Ed spearheaded the building of the Fish Factory Vessel for the raft competition of Stöðvarfjöður and along with Jessica Woodrow and Jonathan Hafner brought about the absolute victory in the competition!

Jonathan Hafner is from Germany and he came to us in February 2017 and will be volunteering with us for the next months on all sorts of carpentry task for Studio Silo and the Factory as a whole :D

Michal Somoš stayed with us during November 2016 and we could really have had him a bit longer :) Michal could not only do everything, he was also a great company. During his stay he was a massive help in the making of the ventilation system for Studio Silo and he also sorted out some lighting system for the Concert hall !!

Peter is a wonderful and professional carpenter from Australia who came all the way to Iceland to help us with some stuff :) We’re working on a new Shared Studio space and Ceramics studio. Peter gave us a helping hand with building all the furniture to studios! What a handy man! He even says that he has a special language to communicate with a woodcutting machines… such a mysterious volunteer! We’re so lucky and honoured to have him in the Factory! He’s keen on staying here until all the furniture is done!

Coco is a volunteer from Germany who joined our forces during 2016 summer. At the moments she’s improving her master skill at *sparkling* and sanding the walls! :D Coco’s guitar music in the morning besides coffee is a reason to start great and productive day whatever is happening in our heads either outside the Fish Factory. She’s staying here to help us finish Ceramics studio and new expanded shared studio we’re working on!

Comhghan & Harry are a pair of Irish gemstones who joined us up for a week in the month of February 2016. These geniuses brought with them music and singing and some crazy car mechanic skills! :D

Sif Yraola, half Icelandic, half Spanish, came during the last week of February and stayed until the beginning of May 2016. Sif help with all sorts of stuff at the Centre, like organizing the Paint Storage with our friend Saga Ásgeirsdóttir (true passion), helped organizing a 3 day study visit to the Centre for all 12 year old elementary students in Fjarðabyggð and lead a workshop with her friend Chris. During her stay Sif also took care of morning meditations which many of our Residency Artist took part in with great success!

Tom came all the way from Israel to join us up for the months of February and March 2016. Tom helped us with wiring Studio Silo, but his true passion was found when he started to clear out heaps of scrap metal and reorganize the electric workshop. He also lead a great music workshop with Vinny for the kids in Verkmenntaskóli Austurlands :)

Tom is a talented musician and he played music with us and did some jam sessions in the Concert Hall. His specialty for every dinner party was grand plates of delicious Hummus!

Raitis Bobrovs came to stay with us in October 2015 and originally the plan was that he would stay for the next two months… but time kept passing and Raitis kept building, and building and fixing. In all Raitis stayed with us for 9 months and it felt like loosing an arm, leg or an eye when he left us… life was not the same. Raitis became a truly dear friend and a strong backbone in our ever growing family. He is such a talented and creative person and one day… we hope he will be back and to throw some pots and build some crazy ass furniture from scrap!

Raitis did an unbelievable amount of work in the Factory, and just to mention a few, he helped us with the building of Studio Silo, completely revamped the wood workshop, raised the walls of the new ceramic workshop and bigger artist studio, managed creative workshops with Elena, fixed the roof, held our hand during some plumbing moments, threw away copious amounts of scrap metal, built doors and fitted windows and he could just about do everything! Not to mention that Raitis is also a doctor in chemistry… :)  Wow.

Tomáš Lanča is a Czech gentleman who stayed with us a couple of weeks in October 2015 and along with Raitis he reorganized the storage room (which was frankly upside down) and built shelves and got everything into place. Tomáš also showed some great woodworking skills and built himself a beautiful xylophone during his stay :)

Steve is a electronic engineer from New Zealand. He is also known now as DJ. Lightning Kane, but that is a long story involving Fleetwood Mac, Whitney Houston and others alike.

Steve stayed with us for 6 weeks in September and October 2015. During that time we had a lot of fun with him and accomplished a massive amount of stuff. There is nothing that Steve can’t do and he is absolutely crazy and we absolutely love him :D

Annie (Vinny’s mom!) and Ed Quinn stayed with us in August 2015. The pair did all sorts of handy work and helped us renovate the new artist house which we where moving into at the time. Annie and Ed are just plain wonderful and great fun to have around. Loads of Love! :D

Klemens Hannigan stayed with us in August 2015.

Enrico Preuß is from Germany and he stayed with us for 3 months, from May to July 2015 to help us build Studio Silo and fix up some audio gear. Enrico is our one and only Sparkle Masse Master! It was great to have him on board and during his stay he got involved in all sorts a stuff with us and truly became a important team member.

Enrico and Vinny formed the band Trux’o’flux which during it’s sort lifetime performed at Seydisfjord festival and lunched a guerrilla gig at Lunga Festival, – a gig which became known for burning speakers and awesome sound :) And here is a video that Orange ‘Ear made about Trux’o’flux:

Just before Pólar Festival 2015 we built a new stage in the Concert hall with Enrico. That was a really fun project because we built the stage is nearly entirely built from the floor of the hall!  You can see the magic in the video here below :)

Matyáš Cigler is a Czech gentleman who stayed with us for six weeks in March and April 2015 and helped us out with the building Studio Silo. During his stay Matyáš made Bar Matyáš in our Concert all and truly proofed his bartender skills :)

Many things can be said about Matyáš and we laugh alot together… but perhaps it is best if he tells about his stay himself! We took a short interview with him and you can find it here below :D

Steve is not a man… he is the Celtic thunder! When others handle one he tackles three! In the snowing days of February 2015 he came all the way from Ireland to help us to lay plaster boards on the walls and ceilings of Studio Silo. Steve is a true jack of all trades and taught us all the tricks in the big book of plasterboarding :D

It was in November 2014 that Ruairí Leddy and Pearse O’Toole from Ireland came to stay in Stöðvarfjörður for just one night at Vinny and Una… that one night quickly turned into a couple of days in a dirty overall with a spanner in the hand, dismantling a massive Ice making machine! Here below you can see a video of their adventures in the Factory :)

Fanny and Nico joined us in the summer of 2014