Tadhg is an artist from the west of Ireland, working in a variety of media, but with a background in painting and an interest in the tension between our perception of the world and the images we make to represent it. At Fish Factory, I thought a lot about Petra’s Stone Museum and other ways…

James DeBay is a young American artist, working in both Vermont and New York. Currently studying at Pratt Institute, he is pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, with a minor in History of Art and Design. ABOUT EXPERIENCE As a young artist, my relationship with art is in a constant state of flux.…

Marie-France Bourbeau is a visual artist who explores the sculptural possibilities of raw or recovered materials from nature – branches, roots, rocks, shells – which she assembles with elements modelled in clay. Her research focuses on the exploration of territory through the materials that form it, the imprint of the living world on it, and…

Tara Lynn MacDougall is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and lately has included rug hooking, and sewing. Her interest lies in a critical and humourous re-evaluation of the art historical canon, and reconsideration of distinctions between standard labour and artistic production. My time at Fish Factory involved…

After a three-month sailing trip from home, Margaux Bula (*1991, CH) arrived at the port of Stodvarsfjordur. This Biel/Bienne-based artist has a particular affinity for working in-situ, and likes to let her work evolve in space. The involvement of elements such as wind, waves and tides has infused in her during the residency at the…

Sonya Trolliet is an artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She works on several projects in illustration and graphic novels. She came here to feed her interests with rocks and micro-organisms. Usually, drawing and painting, she develops, here in Stödvarfjördur, a performative video work with Margaux Bula. It’s a narrative of a lost being who is…

Simone Ebner (stage name ‘Sijmonne’) 
- An artist working at the intersection of poetry and electronics. Simone is a musician and music therapist from Stuttgart (Germany). She came to the Fish Factory to work on her new program ‘COPY AND PASTE’, which shows the versatility of her artistic work. Her songs are a creative fusion…

Hilary Nelson is an artist living and working between New Mexico and Iowa. Their work combines ideas of the familiar and alien through sculpture, installation, and drawing. Material exploration acts as a foundation to confront the paradox implicit in the idea of something being “finished”. When does “usefulness” end? The materials at the Fish Factory,…

Lea Gasser is a freelance accordionist and composer who grew up in Zurich, now living in Lausanne. Fascinated by the versatility of her instrument, she lets it take on different roles in various projects and gives it a very personal and intimate expression through her own compositions. After a Bachelor in classical music at the…

Nora Fuchs is a sculptor from Germany and lives in Berlin and Dortmund. She has been a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund since 2003. There she teaches in the bachelor’s program in three-dimensional design and in the master’s program in scenography and is active in a network for the improvement of…

Eva Spierenburg (the Netherlands) is a visual artist working with installation, painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance, and everything in between. Her practice describes the correlation between our inner processes, and our physical body interacting with the world. With her work she aims to find a form for the human experiences that escape grip and language.…

Hardy Langer is a German painter and drawer. Landscape plays an important role in his work. In many cases it serves as a carrier or supposed home for people and animals, which often mark the beginning of a story. These stories, in turn, usually develop from a deliberate misplacement of the characters who somehow do…

The swiss artist Silvia Buol studied Visual Arts at Basel School of Art and Design (MA 1980), Movement Theatre in Rome and Zürich (Diploma 1984), and Contemporary Dance with Richard Haisma in San Francisco. She works as a visual and performing artist and is also a freelance in cultural projects and a founding member of…

Toni Cinderella is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works on the east coast of the United States. She creates portals and gates to playful dreamscapes that describe specific memories and explore femininity and the purities in life through transient moments in nature. At the Fish Factory, she created a series of drawings and video…

Aoife Claffey is an installation artist based in Cork, Ireland. She explores human sensory perception in immersive environments, influenced by her interest in human behaviorand the physical exploration of site-specific provisional spaces. She creates installations by combining mediums such as interactive projections, reflective found objects, lighting, printmaking, and surround sound. During the residency in Iceland, I had the…

Ben Provest is a singer-songwriter with a passion for creating and performing heartfelt music. He has over 10 years of experience working in the music industry, and has performed his original music in the UK, Europe, Australia & the USA. He studied jazz guitar at The Victorian College of The Arts (2013-2015) & Contemporary Writing…

Lia DeFranco is a figurative painter based in New York City. During her residency at the Fish Factory, she explored the intriguing relationship between humans and insects, creating artworks that depict them in harmony. Her paintings often juxtapose the delicate intricacies of insects with human figures, highlighting a peaceful coexistence. Additionally, Lia created a series…

Michael Ingvarson is a musician (Piano player) producer/engineer/mixer from Melbourne Australia. He also composes his own music. He found the residency at The Fish Factory delightfully different from home in Melbourne. He found the majestic landscape as well as the beautiful people both artist and locals very inspiring. Michael came to the residency with a…

Arista is an artist from Virginia, currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. A recent graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics, Arista’s paintings and ceramics are centered in a love of observing nature and personal relationships. Forever fond of working plein-air, Arista works quickly to capture a…

Courtney Acosta is a US based artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. They came to Iceland with a stack of paper and a few inks with the expectation of producing drawings that challenged the traditional way they knew how to draw. By the end of the residency they were able to complete over 200 drawings by…

Annie is a designer, illustrator, and climate researcher based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawing from her background in design, biology, and behavioral decision sciences, she is interested in the tensions and synergies between human systems and the natural world. Her artistic practice investigates the likely possibility that true sustainable, systemic climate action may be a philosophical…

ChiChai is a multidisciplinary artist and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. In her time at Fish Factory, she fabricated a fashion design and ceramics collection.   Through fashion design, ChiChai discusses Filipinx migration, the ongoing exportation of our bodies and labor, and our ability to create a sense of home wherever we go……

Lydia Carter is a multimedia artist and folk craftsperson based in the UK.Lydia Carter is a multimedia artist and folk craftsperson based in the UK. During her two months at the Fish Factory, she produced a body of work to reflect Icelandic traditional craft and the natural pigments of the fjord. Lydia’s practice engages in…