Maggie Middleton // September 2018 Maggie Middleton is a printmaker and artist from the US. She was with us for the month of September 2018. She is currently studying for her MFA in Printmaking at the Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta  in Wrocław, Poland. She received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College where she graduated with High Honors…

Nikolina Kovalenko // September 2018 Nikolina Kovalenko attended Fish Factory residency in September 2018 where she was working on a series of paintings titled “Guardians Of Northern Lights”, processing and interpreting Icelandic sagas and legends through the visual landscape and cultural associations. She is interested in humanity’s vanishing connection with Nature and strives to expose…

Deidre Cavazzi // September 2018 Deidre Cavazzi is a multimedia choreographer from Southern California.  She spent September 2018 at the Fish Factory, where she gathered visual and textual material based on the relationship between landscape and folklore for a future performance project. Deidre has always been passionate about collaborative projects that embrace and explore the relationship…

  Debbie Fish // September 2018 Debbie Fish is an installation artist and set designer based in Wellington, New Zealand and she joined us for the month of September. Her installations are inspired by environmental and social concerns and she is particularly interested in the use of found and recycled materials in her work. During…

Jenni Ward // September 2018 Jenni Ward is a ceramic sculptor and installation artist based in Santa Cruz California. Jenni joined us here at the Fish Factory in September 2018. She is inspired by biological forms with a particular focus on structures and patterns in nature. Her time spent connecting to her environment and exploring…

Klara Brydewall // August 2018 Klara Brydewall is a metal and jewelry artist from Sweden. She was with us for the month of August 2018. During her stay here at the Fish Factory, she was creating drawings, which are also often included in her work. Her works address the subject of magic, asking what problems…

Beata Grahn // August 2018 Beata Grahn is an artist from Göteborg, Sweden. She is currently based in Stockholm, where she recently got her BFA at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, specializing in art jewelry and corpus. Her practice revolves around apotropaic objects and actions (a term which basically refers to tools to…

Shawn Camp// August 2018 Shawn Camp is an artist and musician based in Austin, TX USA. During his August 2018 residency, he created paintings, videos, and sound pieces in preparation for two solo exhibitions in the fall. These new works investigate dualities and exploit the effects of context on our perception. They convey a sense…

Chloe Purcell // August 2018 Chloe Purcell is a puppetry specialist, animator, performance maker, producer & painter based in London, England. Chloe joined the Fish Factory for the month of August 2018 to explore, representations of the divine feminine with the hope of connecting to the Elven realms through nature. During her residency, Chloe took…

Geffen Refaeli// August 2018 Geffen Refaeli is a visual artist, illustrator and writer. She graduated Bdes from the Bezalel Academy of art and design Jerusalem 2010 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Geffen joined us here at the Fish Factory for a month of August 2018 to work on her new project Amicis Vivit-…

Kirsty Palmer // July, August 2018 Kirsty Palmer is a visual artist from Glasgow, Scotland who joined us at the Fish Factory for the months of July and August 2018. She graduated from the MFA programme at The Glasgow School of Art in 2014 and with BA (Hons) in 2010. Her two-month residency at the…

Rebecca Pempek //  July 2018  Rebecca is a visual artist from the U.S who joined us here at the Fish Factory in July 2018. She works two-dimensionally; challenging the distinction between painting and drawing with mixed media works on paper. While at the Fish Factory, she worked on a number of drawings/paintings and a wall mural…

  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…

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…

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…

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…

Wild Anima is a musician from France who lives in Berlin and who joined us here at the Fish Factory in June 2018. She makes vocal ambient& downtempo electronic music. While she was in the residency, she worked on her album project which she had already started to develop. The heart is the main core…

Beatrice is an artist from Melbourne, Australia who joined us here at the Fish Factory in May and June 2018. She is an interdisciplinary artist but mostly focuses on sculptures. During her stay, Beatrice created numerous wax castings from reindeer antlers which she combined into figurative sculptures. The wax sculptures Beatrice will transfer into bronze…

Audra Hubbell is a graphic designer from the United States, who joined us here at the Fish Factory in June 2018. Mostly she finds inspiration in places&memory and their relation between each other in her creations. While she was in residency, she collected objects and turn those found objects into artworks. In her artworks she uses…

Amy Caterina is a photographer from Southern California, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for her second visit in June 2018. Amy came to the Fish Factory for a first time in January 2017 and as a photographer, she wanted to experience the exact opposite light situation.    Amy Caterina // June 2018.…

Monica Hunken // May 2018. Monica is a performer, activist, and creative direct action teacher among many other things. She is based in New York, United States and joined us here at the Fish Factory for a month of May 2018 to focus on developing her new solo play. Monica took over our concert hall…

Clint Sleeper // May 2018. Clint Sleeper is an artist from Tallahassee, Florida, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of May 2018. His work includes mostly a variety of different digital mediums and music, and the themes of his art revolve around the humor and tragedy of our political and economic…

Miriam Donohue // May 2018. Miriam is a singer-songwriter from Dublin, Ireland, who joined us here at the Fish Factory Creative Centre for May of 2018. Miriam made her first album two years ago and decided that it was about the time to compose a second one. She came to Iceland open-minded, ready to get…