Laura Turón is an active Mexican-American artist in the El Paso-Juárez US/Mex borderplex; her multidisciplinary art processes combine concepts of time, belongingness, and inclusion through collaborative work with the community, and non-objective designs that feature mark-making, ephemeral art, art with science, optical illusions, digital art, sculpture, immersive art, and community art installations. The artist is also the creator…

Laurie Torres is a composer and musician based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has spent the last decade working as a session musician, both live and in the studio. More recently, she recorded her first solo album of instrumental music centered around the piano (to be released in 2024).   At the Fish Factory, she…

Shayna Klee (Purple Palace) is a French-American multimedia Artist and musician. She lives and works in Paris, France. In 2023 Shayna released her first full musical project under the pseudonym “Purple Palace”, giving homage to her early roots and online projects published under the same name. The EP entitled “Tower moments” is an experimentation in pop, spoken…

Elia Lombardini is an finnish-italian composer, producer and violinist. Their music moves along the intersection of classical and electronic music creating worlds between maximalism and minimalism. The main tool of their practice is the violin although sometimes heavily effected and manipulated. At the Fishfactory Elia worked on some new material with their friend Helmi Tikkanen…

Emma Anne Johnson is an interdisciplinary artist who creates art focusing on valuing a “glitch” – a sudden, usually temporary, irregularity or malfunction of equipment. Glitches, with their inherent imperfections and digital anomalies, offer them a unique lens through which to explore the intersection of technology, human experience, and aesthetics. They experiment with combining trash,…

Helmi Tikkanen, also known by her stage name Von Pearl, is an artist from Helsinki, Finland. In her work she draws inspiration from her backround in classical double bass and mixes it with her love for electronic pop music. Born with a name that translates to “pearl” in Finnish, her musical journey has been marked…

Morvern is an illustrator, storyteller and visual artist from Scotland. Her most recent work has seen her exploring her Scandinavian heritage, and diving into the world of folktales and mythology. Primarily working in traditional printmaking, Morvern’s work promotes the use of heritage crafts and manual methods. I began my residency at the Fish Factory working…

Sarah Steiner stands as a vibrant testament to the boundless possibilities of musical exploration. Hailing from the iconic city of Mozart, Salzburg, her roots are deeply entrenched in the rich soils of classical music. However, Sarah’s artistic journey is anything but conventional. With a spirit that refuses to be confined, she embodies the essence of…

Erica Stankwytch Bailey is a jeweler and metalsmith living in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. Erica sees a strong relevance for the smallest things within the larger context. Understanding the elemental building blocks of metals and minerals is the foundation of her jewelry. She interprets and replicates the molecular and crystalline structure of the materials she uses…

Joke Noordstrand, a Dutch historian and a visual artist, is redefining the narrative of history through her ceramic art, focusing on the often-overlooked stories of women. Her project, “Female History in Iceland,” undertaken at the AiR Fish Factory in Stöðvarfjörður, draws from her fascination with Iceland’s stark landscapes and the rich histories of Icelandic women…

Mariella is a multi-disciplinary artist from Scotland. Next year, she plans to undertake studies to become an art therapist. She seeks to spotlight the mundane, and to bridge narratives between tradition, folklore, and her reality. Mariella’s work inspires to show that when stripped down, life is absurd and nonsensical. During her Fish Factory residency, Mariella…

Alex M. Stein is an award winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Alex stayed at the Fish Factory in November 2024. Alex wrote short stories and shared them at our exhibition at the end of the month in the green room upstairs. During the month, he delighted us with positive energy and good…

Clio Berta is a Maine based performance artist, composer and event producer inspired by snakes, esoteric mysticism, constructed identity, cycles and nothingness. She works with movement, projected video, paint and the natural landscape to explore these ideas in an intimate, multi dimensional way. Clio spent her time at the Fish Factory researching, writing about and…

Hester Aspland is an illustrator and ceramicist based in Scotland. Her work is inspired by nature, folklore and history, which is explored through ink drawings, ceramics and sketchbook work. The landscapes of Scotland are a particularly large source of inspiration, so having the opportunity to come to Iceland was a dream come true. She spent…

Jane Beguchaya, a Russian/Tatar artist, stayed in Fish Factory in September 2023. She reflects on her residency experience, saying, “If I’ll say that it was a special experience, it would be not enough. To be honest, it is not easy to find the words. Month already gone since the day I came back home but…

Nancy is a Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. She is the author of five books on climate history, Great Lakes history, forest and wetland history, and toxics history. Nancy spent the month of September with us while she worked on her paintings, watercolours, linocuts, prints and collages. She experimented with these different…

Lula Asplund is a Chicago based sound artist and musician who combines digital and analog sound synthesis with tape manipulation, field recordings, and vocal manipulation in her practice. Lula’s time at Fish Factory consisted of going on long walks, taking photographs, field recordings, recording electro-magnetic sounds of the lighthouses, reading Clarice Lispector, and recording with…

Madeleine Aleman is a visual artist from Malmö, Sweden. She stayed with us in the month of September 2023. Since 2012, her art practice focuses mainly on drawing, printmaking, and performance. Aleman is strongly influenced by psychology and spirituality. Hypnagogic states and dreams are important sources of inspiration. “During my residency stay, I was totally…

Susan Singer is a writer and an artist. The first time she landed in Keflavik was in 2014. That inspired her to sign up for different residencies, where she worked with photography and with pastels. At the Fish Factory, she experimented with watercolour, and she worked plein air as much as possible, taking inspiration from…

Kathryn Mohr is an artist and a musician currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent the month August here at the Fish Factory, working on music. She set up a desk in our green room upstairs, with beautiful view over the opening of the fjord. Kathryn liked to stroll near the sea,…

Eva is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain. Her work during the residency, in August, was inspired by the local fauna and landscape with a layer of fantasy extracted from Icelandic folk tales mixed with witchy popular culture and personal anecdotes of her travels. She also took the opportunity given to focus…

Julia Hechtman is a visual artist who lives and works in Boston, USA. Julia makes works focusing on the balance of absence and presence, life and death, and real-time and memoried experience in her multi-faceted studio practice. The natural world features prominently in her works, which has allowed her to travel extensively and to contemplate…

Introducing Gabriele Glang, a German-American artist and bilingual poet from southern Germany, who spent the month of August at the Fish Factory. All her life, she has practiced both painting and writing, her creative work comprising both the visual and the literary. “The artist’s book is the perfect medium for me: a marriage between the…

Meet Gabi Maynard, an artist and digital creator. She stayed with us in August. “I recently completed my digital media studies at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, focusing on graphic design. Although I’ve created a lot of digital work, I still have a strong passion for traditional, analog media. Initially I was planning on…