Fish Factory

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…

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…