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…

Ben Frimet is an artist and teacher from London, England, who joined us for the month of October 2017. While here he was taken by the amount of tour packages available for visitors to Iceland. This felt quite manufactured when joined with the wild nature and landscape, and so provided a topic of interest for…

Gabrielle Tam A.K.A. ‘Onion Peterman’ is an illustrator and print maker from Hong Kong, who has exhibited in solo and group shows in Hong Kong & Korea, and joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of October, 2017. Gabrielle’s works are predominantly presented through screen printing & zine publishing, inspired by observations of the…

Ann-Ci is an artist from Sweden who picked up painting around 10 years ago. It was a new found passion, which led her to meet with other artists, to learn drawing and painting techniques, and since then has exhibited her own work. This year, Ann-Ci’s focus was towards a time of personal study and exploration. She…

Nidea is a Portuguese artist from Switzerland, who works as a stage and lighting designer, with a passion for creating in many forms, and personally focussing on writing in recent years. Residency here in Stöðvarfjörður, gave Nidea the time and space to focus on the theme of ‘identity’, as fuel for her first personal monologue, which…

Martina is a performance artist and actress from Croatia, who has spent the last 8 years working nomadically, and is now based in Reykjavik. She joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of September, 2017. Last year, whilst working in Slovenia, Martina finished her first performance trilogy, which had been developed and…

Melanie is an artist, originally from Munich, Germany, who has lived in the United States for the past 9 years. She joined us here at the Factory in September 2017, continuing work related to an ongoing interest with in-between spaces. ‘the interstice that divides generations; the invisible breath that separates my body from yours. In turn,…

Anna Choutova is a visual artist and curator who first joined us for residency at the Fish Factory in September 2016 and has just returned for the month of September 2017, in our private studio. Anna has a fascination with fake, and a lot of her practice is devoted to concepts of consumerism, and the way that…

Louis is an artist from the UK, who joined us here at the Fish Factory for the month of September, 2017. With a broad focus on landscape, and the reduction of shape and meaning from varying forms. Interest in orthography, typography, and iconography has provided much inspiration for Louis’ body of work, in presenting distortions and abstractions of known…

Dameon is an artist and sculptor from Austin, Texas, who’s forms are based around minimalism, modernist design, and color field painting. He joined us here at the Fish Factory during August 2017. Of recent, Dameon’s works have been responsive to glacial melt, and the effects of global warming. He began this study, taking inspiration from existing imagery…

Amy is a performance artist from Cornwall, England, who joined us for the month of August in 2017. Here she worked through various mediums, creating drawings, costumes, instruments, sound and video records, as a means to further develop her performance character, ‘The Worm’.  Amy, as a gardener, has been long inspired by worms, and their position in…

Emma is a multidisciplinary artist from Malta, who has been living in America, and most recently, in London, England. She joined us here at the Factory for the months of July and August 2017. In coming to Iceland, Emma followed a growth in her consciousness, that stemmed from an encounter with a humpback whale in…