Jana Charl // May 2018. Jana Charl is an artist from Los Angeles, California, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of May 2018. She has just recently moved from Los Angeles to a large ranch in central Oregon and was happy to come to a residency to another rural place and…

Sybil Paulson // May 2018. Sybil Paulson is a nomad artist, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of May 2018. She was born in Canada and has been more or less on the road ever since she turned 14. As her lifestyle also Sybil’s art is an organically swirling process and…

Melissa McGrath // April 2018. Melissa McGrath is a visual artist and educator from Kansas City, Missouri, The United States. She joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of April 2018 to focus on her drawing practice. Melissa makes drawings by burning holes to the paper with a smoldering incense stick. The method…

Jerry Jacuzio // April 2018. Jerry Jacuzio is an artist and musician from the United States, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of April 2018. Jerry came to the residency to continue to make his magical felted hats and fish masks. Jerry considers himself as a maker of things and art as…

Silvija Juozelskyte // April 2018. Silvija Juozelskyte is a textile designer and art therapist from Lithuania, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of April 2018. For a Lithuanian, Iceland is an especially important country because it was the first country to recognize the independence of Lithuania back in 1991. And as an homage to…

Natalie Goulet // April 2018. Natalie Goulet is a Canadian photographer from Northern Ontario, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of April 2018. This was her third time in Iceland within a year, and this time she came to work on her ongoing photography projects in the landscapes of East Iceland. Natalie’s photography…

Valentin Russo // February – April 2018. Valentin Russo is a French photographer who joined us here at the Fish Factory for three months from February to April 2018. Valentin came to Stöðvarfjörður to make an extended photography project about the hidden and not overly photographed sides of Iceland.   The final piece of the three-month-long…

Rebeca Bonjour // March 2018. Rebeca Bonjour is a photographer from Lisbon, Portugal who joined us here at the Fish Factory for March 2018. Rebeca has studied both, journalism and photography and although most of her work being photographs, also the background in journalism has a big influence on her ways of working. She tends to do pervasive research about…

Rose Hatcher // March 2018. Rose Hatcher is an artist, a photographer and a curator from Cornwall, England. She joined us here at the Fish Factory for March of 2018 two projects in her mind – to focus on making her art works and to learn about the residency program we are running here. This is because,…

Holly MacKinnon // March 2018. Holly is an oil painter from Montreal, Canada, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of March 2018. Her work is mainly oil paintings on canvas and usually a combination of figures and landscapes. She spent the time in the residency working hard at the studio and…

Jemila MacEwan // March 2018. Jemila is an interdisciplinary artist who was born in Scotland, grew up in Australia and is currently living and working in New York city. She joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of March 2018 to work on a sculpture-based video performance piece. Jemila spent her time in…

Owen Dixon // January – February 2018 Owen Dixon is a sculptor and a metal worker from Peterborough, Canada, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for January and February of 2018. Owen’s practice is making sculptures out of old, rusty metal objects by cutting holes in intricate patterns to the metal with a…

Sebastian Koukkides // February 2018 Sebastian Koukkides is a visual artist from Cyprus who joined us here at the Fish Factory Creative Centre for the month of February 2018. He received his BA in Fine Arts from the University of the West of England in Bristol. Sebastian usually works with found materials joining them together…

Susan Wood // February 2018 Susan Wood is an artist from Scotland who joined us at the Fish Factory for the third time this February. She has a recurring project to spend a month in each of the four seasons in here at Stöðvarfjöður. At the end of her fourth visit, she will make an…

Julia DePinto is a visual artist from Ohio, United States and she stayed here at the Fish Factory for January 2018. Her background as an artist is in printmaking but she doesn’t consider herself as a traditional printmaker, and in fact, she is rather working against the stereotypes of the medium. Julia’s work has a…

Hannah Bengtsson is an illustrator and a designer from Brisbane, Australia. She stayed here at the Fish Factory for six months from August 2017 to January 2018. Hannah studied in Billy Blue College of Design in Brisbane where she received a BA in Communication Design in 2016. Since then she travelled to Quito, Ecuador to…

Keit is an artist from Estonia, who joined us here in the private studio for the month of November, to work on a personal music project; Meije. After some years of singing vocals in bands, it has been a different experience for Keit to have the time and space to focus fully on her personal work,…

Alfredo is an artist from Torreón, Mexico, who joined us at the Fish Factory in October and November, after some months working at other residencies across Iceland. During his time he continued an extended work, on the relationship between environment, culture, and landscape. Alfredo’s practice aims to visualise ‘borderline spots between civilization and nature, spaces with human…

Robert John is a freelance illustrator and designer from Toronto who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of November, 2017. His work could be described as retro minimalism, and often finds itself in the combination of unlikely elements; incorporating bright colours and simple illustration to form a complex outcome. More recently, it…

Adrian and Sue Hunter are artists and teachers from Australia, who joined us for the month of November, in 2017, to spend time focussing on their personal painting mediums, both involved with depiction of landscape, in varying formats. Their time at the fish factory was spent working on this practice, and experimenting with printing, of natural…