Lavinia Hanachiuc is a Romanian-born ceramic artist and fine art photographer. She stayed with us during May 2016. Her work originates from an organic mélange of eastern European folklore and superstitions, Latin blood and memories from a childhood lived under an oppressive political regime. Her work is at times following the materials and it’s very…

Marisa is a contemporary jeweller and artist from Tasmania, Australia but currently lives in Norway. She undertook a residency in May 2016 to research the coastline of the east coast of Iceland. Her practice focuses on the appropriation and translation of textures and fragments, collected from walks along island shorelines. What is found is an…

Sine is an artist from Copenhagen, working mainly with architectural themes and space-based projects. She was in Residency at the Fish Factory during the month of April 2016. Her work here went from an installation drawing to a research about the village and the changing of it since the Fish Factory shut down. You can…

Morgan is a mixed media artist from Burlingame, California and she stayed with us during April 2016. She likes to create work around daily moments- conversations, dialogue, emotions- and try to capture them so they are not forgotten. She is interested in the combination of our real life experiences and our imaginary or emotional experiences…

Laura Arena is an artist, designer, curator, and writer living in New York City and sometimes in other places. She stayed with us during the months of March and April 2016. For her project in Iceland and to be continued in Greenland she made a  site where you can see the work: http://www.lauraarena.com/ Her interview…

Lana is an artist from Gent (Belgium) and stayed with us in Residency for the month of March in 2016. Her works are usually wall drawings, taking inspiration from geometry and conceptualism. During her stay she worked with 3D forms and the representation of rocks in photography and through computer work. Following the same ideas…

David Andrew is a writer and a  poet from the UK and he was an artist in Residency during March 2016. David is a member of the Green Party in UK and he spent his time here reading and writing about how to get by with less things. Website as poet and company director: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/index.php…

 Simeon is a sustainable designer and craftsman working with seaweed who stayed with us during February 2016. Originally from Liverpool, UK, In Stöðvarfjörður he worked to create pieces from local seaweeds. He created a small range of lamps and other objects from dried seaweed which did not require any other materials or adhesives. These pieces are…

Lucy Willow is a british artist who stayed with us for the month of July 2015. She proposed to generate a new body of drawings, sound recordings and written narrative responding directly to the location. She is interested in giving form to the idea of liminal space, the imagined space of limbo, a space possibly…

Tara Benjamin is an artist from UK, who lives and works between London and Oxford. She stayed with us during the month of December 2015, looking for something new to let the “everyday” go. She was interested in immerse herself into the landscape surroundings here and thus challenge her works, getting into much larger pieces.…