Alex Massa is an artist/musician/performer/entertainer from United States. He visited us during his personal break from his as he said professional career. His main goal was to get back to personal creativity field and reconnect to himself. While Alex stayed at our Residency, we were pleased to have a trumpet playing everyday in our halls.…

Dexter is a painter from Brighton, United Kingdom. He stayed at the residency for one month of September. Dexter’s main aim was to paint in the nature and reanact the nature on his canvas, but it turned out that his residency mostly became work in a studio creating humorous paintings. When Dexter wasn’t working, the…

Shoko Matsuki is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. She’s focusing on drawing and recognizes herself as an illustrator. But! She’s not afraid of exploring other things! She was working on Lino–Cutting/Printmaking during her stay. Although, she was working on sketches and was building up her project focused on the disconnection from rest of the world. Project…

Anna Choutova is 22 year old Swedish painter based in London. She chose our residency because the idea of isolation, remoteness and disconnection from outer world and cities seemed to be suitable at the time. “In London I was getting so anxious of city living and there was just no time for yourself, even if you’re alone…

Jesús Portal  is an ‪artist‬ from Spain and stayed in ‪Art Residency‬ for August. He’s an art teacher and writing an art education book for High–School students in Spain. The architecture of town, villages of Iceland and Fish Factory has been the main source of inspiration. Camera, music and Stöðvarfjörður was combined into the mural he was working.…

  Benjamin Whitney Buhl is a third–year MFA program student at University of South Florida, USA, specialises in Multidisciplinary program in found object sculpting. Ben choose our Factory for Residency because of, as he says ‘Vibe’ – he was feeling really fitting in our ‘always in progress’ mood. ‘The less distractions – the better for…

  Nele is a contemporary artist from Hamburg, Germany. She stayed with us during the months of May, June and July 2016. Her field of work is new media, from installations made with textile, to works of photography, audio and video. During her period of residency she did a lot of audio recordings in the…

Marine Schneider is an illustrator from Brussels, Belgium. She came to the Fish Factory as an Artist in Residency in June 2016 with a specific project in mind, but the impact that the surrounding landscapes and the factory itself had on her made her change her mind completely. She started to experiment with wood, by…