Laura Casassas // January 2019 Laura Casassas is a design researcher and educator from Barcelona. She joined us for the snowy month of January. During her stay with us, Laura worked on writing and revisiting her master thesis Using is caring (about), in which she questions the field of critical design and its relation with…

Inkeri Viljanen // January 2019 Inkeri Viljanen is a Finnish painter based in Vasa, Finland and stayed with us for the month of January 2019. Inkeri describes her dark sense of humour and other human beings as her main inspiration, emphasizing that art does not have to be serious. During her residency, Inkeri was working on…

Niko Mitsuko // November 2018 Niko Mitsuko is an American artist working in fields of painting, photography and mixed media. She was staying with us in the month of November 2018. In the past years, Niko has established herself as a professional artist working with galleries across the United States and Europe. Believing that art is a…

Áine Kelly // November 2018 Áine Kelly is an Irish visual artist specialising in photography and sculpture. She graduated in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2016. Áine Kelly // November 2018 During her time with us, she made work with ice that was often foraged from the mountains…

Santiago Zarzosa // November 2018 Santiago Zarzosa is a European artist based in Minneapolis, MN USA. He was born and educated in Spain. He has been exhibiting and selling his works over the last few decades. Zarzosa works predominantly with oil painting, drawing and etching. During the residency in November 2018, he expanded his multidisciplinary…

Mikkel Odehnalu // October 2018 Mikkel was with us in the month of October. He is an animator and lives in the Czech Republic where he studies PhD in arts at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín where he also did MA at the Department of the Animation. His works are mainly focused on nature,…

Courtney Powell // October 2018 Courtney Powell is a Canadian artist, based out of Vancouver, BC, and was with us for October 2018.  She is a muralist and painter, and obtained her BFA from York University. During her residency, Courtney created a mural featuring Iceland’s national flower, mountain avens, and two of its birds, the arctic tern…

Nika Winn // October 2018 Nika Winn is a visual artist from Kansas City, MO in the United States. She spent the month of October 2018 at the Fish Factory to explore new modes of working in her studio practice. During her time here Nika worked with canvas that she painted, cut out and then…

Ben Davis // October 2018 Ben Davis is a photographic artist and bookmaker from the Greater New York City area. He was with us for the month of October 2018. While at the Fish Factory he spent a lot of time exploring the fjord and surrounding mountains/landscape. He also started to experiment with night photography.…

Christopher Johns // October 2018 Christopher Johnsey is a painter from Sheffield in the UK.  He studied BA Fine Art at Middlesex University, London, graduating in 2010. Chris makes reportage drawings and paintings, poetry and sound recordings, exploring the relationship between the environment and the human race, and our impact. During his month with us in October,…

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…