Fish Factory

Paul Heyduck // April – June 2019 Paul Simon Heyduck is a visual artist from Germany. Paul stayed at the Creative Centre for three months starting in April 2019. In the past years, Paul´s artistic practice was focused on installation and sculpture. Paul in his artistic practice uses different mediums and materials, however, during his…

Catie Newell // June 2019 Catie Newell is an American architect and visual artist from Detroit, Michigan. Catie came to Fish Factory for the first time in November 2015 and she has been coming back ever since. As Catie´s artistic practice touches the topics of brightness and darkness, shifts between day and night, she got strongly…

Pauliina Waris// June 2019 Pauliina Waris is a Finnish visual artist and educator, based in Helsinki. Pauliina stayed at Fish Factory in the sunny month of June 2019. Pauliina arrived in Stöðvarfjörður searching for a quiet and calm place, where she could let her thoughts wander and develop new ideas for her artistic practice. Searching for…

Bailey Glass is an American visual artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. She arrived at Fish Factory with the beginning of May 2019. Coming to Iceland Bailey´s original plan was to focus on creating a new body of work. During her stay she worked on several projects, in May, focusing on astrology, Bailey created a…

  Helen Lee // June 2019 Helen Lee is a visual artist based in Chicago, United States. She stayed at Fish Factory in the beautiful month of June. Helen recently completed her MFA in performance studies at School of Art in Chicago. Helen´s original plan was to revisit her thesis and work on its aspects, but once…

Chloe Jane Hambleton // May 2019 Chloe Jane Hambleton is an artist, dancer and filmmaker from Brisbane, Australia. She arrived at Fish Factory with the beginning of summer in May 2019. Chloe Jane Hambleton // May 2019 Chloe creates unique movements based on emotions, places and encountered people. During her stay with us, Chloe was working…

Andrea Papi // April, May 2019 Andrea Papi is a visual artist based in Rome, Italy. Andrea stayed at Fish Factory in April and May and during that time he fell in love with Iceland endlessly. Andrea Papi // April, May 2019 Andrea, as he describes, captures his thoughts and emotions mainly through the photographic…

Catie Dillon // March-May 2019 Catie Dillon is an American abstract painter, she came to the Fish Factory with the beginning of snowy March and stayed until the end of green May. Catie Dillon // March-May 2019 During her residency stay, Catie was working on a series of paintings as a response to the landscape. She…

Christoph Solstreif Pirker // April 2019 Christoph Solstreif-Pirker is an architect, performance artist, researcher and theorist, based in Graz, Austria. He was having his residency at the Fish Factory in the month of April. Christoph Solstreif Pirker // April 2019 During his stay at the Fish Factory, Christoph was doing field research for his Artistic…

Lotta Cronander Lindh // March, April 2019 Lotta Cronander Lindh is a Swedish visual artist. She stayed with us at the beginning of Icelandic spring in March and April 2019. During her stay with us, Lotta spent a lot of her time walking, hiking, taking cold dips in the ocean and enjoying the beauty of…

Jiyun Park // February, March, April 2019 photo: Lotta Cronander Lindh Jiyun Park is a visual and sound artist from South Korea, based in Cologne, Germany. She arrived at the Fish Factory in the cold and snowy month of February and left the residency with the first flashes of spring-like sunlight in mid-April. Jiyun Park…

Zheng Huang // March 2019 Zheng Huang is a Chinese art curator based in Paris, France. While Zheng´s usual art practice concerns criticism,  exhibition production and art curation, coming to Iceland Zheng shifted her interests towards using video as a media. Zheng Huang // March 2019 Zheng created a series of three short videos related…

Luowei Liao // March 2019 Luowei Liao is a Chinese visual artist based in Tokyo, Japan. Luowei joined us to admire Iceland waking up from its winter hibernation. Since Luowei lives in one of the most modern cities on our planet, she found surrounding nature extremely interesting and described being close to nature as the most enjoyable experience. She enjoyed long…

Ariel Kessler // March 2019 Ariel Kessler is a visual artist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She joined the Factory team for the month of March 2019. Ariel Kessler // March 2019 Ariel fell in love with Iceland, during her first visit to our beautiful country six years ago. When deciding on the residency destination, Iceland seemed…

Aaron Scott // February 2019 Aaron Scott is an American designer, based in New York City, who stayed with us for the month of February. Aaron Scott // February 2019 Aaron came to Iceland in search of a new direction for his work. He states that the landscape is being a huge factor and inspiration during his process…

Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas // February 2019 Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas is a Mexican photographer, who joined us for his third time in Stöðvarfjörður in February 2019. He describes the main subject of his interest as a relationship between human being and the environment. Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas // February 2019 Alfredo started his project connected to Söðvarfjörður in 2017…

Patricia Casey // February 2019 Patricia Casey is a visual artist, based in Sydney, Australia. During her first residency in Fish Factory, Patricia came to stay with us at the peak of Icelandic summer in June 2017. This time, hoping to experience real Icelandic winter, she decided to arrive in the windy and snowy month of February. Patricia…

Ruth Waterhouse // February 2019 Ruth Waterhouse is an illustrator coming from Cumbria, England. Living by the sea and the fells at home, Ruth wanted to discover the similarities and differences between the pace and characteristics of her homeland and small Icelandic town of Stöðvarförður. Ruth Waterhouse // February 2019 Before arriving at the Creative Centre, Ruth´s…

Elisabeth Kuklenyik // February 2019 Elisabeth Kuklenyik is a Chicago based comics artist, illustrator and educator. She stayed with us in the cold and icy month of February. Elisabeth joined us to work on her comic book series My Mother of Old Bones. The story is a mixture of biographical threads and explorational journeys into Elisabeth´s Eastern European roots.…

  Alec Aita // January, February 2019 Alec Aita is an American visual artist based in Berlin, Maryland, who joined us for the cold months of January and February. Alec earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Salisbury University. Alec Aita // January, February 2019 During his residency time in Fish Factory, Alec decided to switch his sculptural…

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…