Fish Factory

Jane Affleck is a is a writer and artist based in Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island (PEI), which is on the east coast of Canada and part of Mi’kma’ki, the unceeded lands of the Mi’kmaq people. Jane has taught undergrad-level writing, English lit, and art history courses. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The Great…

Montana van Duijn is a Maine based artist who interacts with her world through performance, video, and natural landscapes. Her work is based around finding her spirituality through the connection she can find through body based contact to the natural world. This is often shown through video based pieces, and installations. During her time at…

Nick Wishart is an interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work merges sound, light, and movement. Using custom-built electronic instruments, sensors, and code, he creates immersive performances and installations that transform gesture and environment into audiovisual experiences. His practice explores the boundaries between technology, art, and play. “I had an incredible time at the Fish Factory residency,…

Geertje Brandenburg, is a Dutch artist who works with installation, collage, text, and craft. In artworks built up from her extensive visual archive, Geertje questions the versatility of identity. As someone named after several people Geertje interweaves herself with others, presenting a version of the truth that fluctuates between myth and a half-remembered moment. Geertje’s…

Madelyn Gowler is a queer, film-based artist focusing on materiality and experimental processes of image making. They are currently residing in the Canadian prairies – Winnipeg, MB and received their BFA from the University of Manitoba. They mainly work with textiles, installation, super 8 film, and analog photography. Their practice focuses on meditative processes of…

Daria, a Ukrainian artist, sketcher, and visual storyteller currently based in Czechia. My month at the residency felt like an art adventure, a rare chance to fully dive into my practice. Coming from Ukraine, landscapes hold a therapeutic weight for me, and painting them in bold colors became a way to process both movement and…

The Land Rover – a temporary sculpture When I came to the fish factory I had the intention of making a UFO. This sort of happened, but so did lots of other things. I did a collaboration with Rachel Saxby. I handed over some test videos and we discussed how she could play with the…

Tania Joanna Van Hoofstadt is a Belgian mixed media artist. Originally trained as an architect, she found herself craving more creative freedom—and about 20 years ago, she turned to sculpture and painting. Since then, her work has evolved into a tactile exploration of texture, color, and material. From moss and lichen to metal scraps and engine…

During my residency at The Fish Factory this July, I developed a sound-art project called Teel-Dah, which aims to redefine how sound can be used as a tool for healing. Inspired by ancient sound healing traditions, the project explores the therapeutic effects of natural sounds and frequencies on mental health. I focused on capturing field…

Toni Cinderella is a multidisciplinary artist from the east coast of the U.S and has returned for a second time at the Fish Factory! Her work explores the notion of making things with love through connecting with nature and looking at elements of folk art, decorative art, and anything wholesome and cute. During her residency,…

Matt Stober is a multi-instrumentalist/composer from the East Coast of the United States. In July 2025 he returned to the Fish Factory for the second time. In addition to his solo work under his own name, he is the creator of the post-rock/math-rock Instrumental band, In-Dreamview. While there he recorded a 17 track instrumental album,…

Orli Swergold is a Brooklyn–based artist and curator whose hand-wrung paper-pulp paintings—applied to wood and metal substrates—investigate physicality by balancing the rigor of manual labor with delicate, up-close patterning. Treated as organismic entities, their wobbly or outstretched gestures reach beyond the rectangle to elicit empathy on a humanoid level. For Swergold, painting is serious play:…

Lex is a composer, theatre-maker and sometimes-visual-artist living on Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia). “On approaching my time in Iceland, I knew I wanted to learn more about the Hidden People. I’m interested in cultures that interact with nature spirits as a way to make sense of hostile environmental conditions. As human-driven climate change is making…

I spent a lot of time in Iceland just feeling and thinking. At @fishfactory I felt ready to explore without an end goal. I spent my days relearning to use my hands; playing guitar chords and making ceramics even though I have no skill in either. I made linoleum stamps, wrote poetry, made copies and…

Jessie Kilguss is a singer, songwriter and performer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has released 5 albums, most recently What Do Whales Dream About at Night in 2022. She sang harmony and played the harmonium with Freddie Stevenson, opening for the Waterboys all over Europe on their Modern Blues tour. Kilguss is a former actress who made the…

Brian Conery is a visual artist based in Richmond California, part of the Bay Area. Before arriving at the Factory my practice was primarily about painting and works on paper. I came to Fish Factory wanting to explore abstraction more fully and also respond to any direct experiences here. At once I found the environment…

Simon Berz is a transdisciplinary artist, drummer, and sound researcher from Switzerland who explores the intersection of natural environments, geology, and contemporary sound art. During a residency in Iceland in 2015, he began working intensively with Icelandic basalt stones—materials millions of years old—and developed the TECTONIC instrument, which combines these stones with real-time electronic processing.…

Mariam Gouverneur Mckeown is a writer currently living in Suffolk, United Kingdom. She writes poems, essays and stories (in that order) about the things she sees and feels. *** For me, one of the most difficult things about being a creative person is coming to terms with it. How silly it sounds sometimes to hear…

Shelley Simpson is a visual artist from Aotearoa New Zealand. She attended the residency after completing her PhD. “It is a long journey from Aotearoa to Iceland. I was interested to think about what it means to be a guest or manuhiri in such a place- so far from my home. In my creative practice…

Peter Klett is an artist based in Washington, USA. Thank you to my hosts Kris and Lukas; to everyone in and around the town of Stöðvarfjörður; and to my fellow residents Adele, Elise, Fien, Lulu, Marina, and Naomi. I am humbled by your kindness and generosity.

Fien Brakkee is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work is a poetic and sensitive exploration of the physical and spiritual relations between the landscapes that surround us and the landscapes that live within us. Inspired by the ephemeral evidence of memory, vivid yet untouchable atmosphere of place and the sometimes elusive elements…

my month long residency at fish factory was an entirely unexpected journey. before getting here, i was at my residency in rural finland, wondering where i would go next. in the quiet winter and a deep conversation with my grandpa rock friend, they asked me: “if you don’t have to worry about money or anything,…

Martina Solárová Pauleová is a visual artist from Slovakia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in 1998. In her life, she has welcomed her sunny sons: Tadeáš, Martin, and Kristian. In my recent work, the passage of time and shifts in scale play a central role. The piece is composed of…