Sandra Kruisbrink, a Dutch artist whose work is inspired by nature and specifically trees, spent the month of May with us in Stodvarfjordur. The lack of tree scenery made her explore the East fjord mountains which she encapsulated with her signature style. “Drawing in my studio, I try to evoke the silence or emptiness I…

Taneli Törmä and Caroline McSweeney joined us at the Factory in May. Taneli is a Finnish choreographer, performer, and Artistic Director of Location X dance company and Caroline McSweeney is an Irish theatre director and Artistic Director of Locus Theater company. With the help of sound designer Esa Mattila they engaged with the local fishing community and…

Yasemin is a Turkish U.S. based visual artist. During her stay in Iceland in April, she worked on a project involving drawing, painting and written elements. As I spent more time in the factory surrounded by talented artists who all bring a unique voice to the table, I felt lucky to practice and live amongst them…

Sarah Ingraham is a Brooklyn based painter and textile artist. Her work is influenced by a background in rug making and wallpaper design. Combining her knowledge of art history with the tradition of still life, she investigates and reinterprets ancient motifs through colour to create a more contemporary palette. During her time at the residency, she…

Zoë Power is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in the fields of illustration, print and typography. She spent her time at the Factory cutting out lino and printing in our print workshop. She made multiple prints of her signature style figures. Graduating from Multidisciplinary Print Media and with a love of craft and typography, Zoë studied…

Daisy Brown is a multidisciplinary artist from London, UK, specialising in cameraless photography. During her residency stay in April, she spent time using sustainable chemical processes with as minimal labour as possible to document light and immediate reactions to space. Being interested in light, which is in abundance this time of year in East Iceland, Daisy documented the fleeting…

Eliza is a London based artist who spent two months with us at the Fish Factory. “While living in Stöðvarfjörður, I have been working on a project about my personal relationship with world-building, escapism and healing through making, while exploring different possibilities of picture-making. Using primarily painting and drawing, I have become committed to bringing a…

Ayelet is an Israeli artist who came back to Iceland to rediscover her art form. Staying here in April, she embraced the Icelandic nature and made her own stone pigments to paint with. I wanted to join the art residency to find my voice as an artist, a woman, and as a human in this…

Sioned Knight is an artist based in South East London. Spending the month of March at the Fish Factory, Sion reimagined the Icelandic nature and her surroundings with her signature bright colours. I create large, bright paintings of imagined landscapes. My paintings are completely made up and allow the viewer to be transported to somewhere…

Guillermo Mena is a visual artist and animator, born in Los Cóndores, Córdoba, Argentina. During his stay at the Fish Factory in March, he engaged with the factory´s spaces by projecting onto them. Within his work, he is exploring natural geological phenomena through drawing and animation. Taking different elements in the landscape to conform to fictitious…

  Margarita was staying at our residency in the month of March where she took inspiration from seeing the Northern lights. Incorporating them into her artistic practice, she created painted works and a new mural on our factory wall. “The Light is the tool that we need to find our life purpose and the Water…

The project I began during my stay in Stödvarfjordur uses a transdisciplinary approach to explore the concept of a portal: How do portals perform a queer warping of time and space? What does it look like to inhabit their liminality? And in doing so, how can we lend agency to ephemerality? Throughout history, what tangible…

Ruby is a British artist who spent the month of a snowy March at our residency. “My practice is focused on depicting personal mythology that explores the changing and surreal landscapes found in dreams, working primarily in painting and drawing. The documentation of organic material has become its own practice, as this research not only…

Eva spent the month of February at our residency where she painted and played in the snow, went on a beach hunt for quartz and took in the mountain views from her living room. Eva lives and works in Reykjavík, Iceland and Athens, Greece. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Art…

Maithili is a painter and sculptor who spent time at the Fish Factory in February, a snowy month that inspired her to delve into what it means to be a woman and to spend time by herself. “As a woman, we experience a lot of emotions and since a kid, I have been watching and…

At the Fish Factory, Kirsten Sophie Hasberg worked on her project with the working title “Jazz meets energy”, a jazz recording and talk that combines spoken tracks with recordings of satirical jazz pieces by Tom Lehrer and Dave Frishberg. The tracks include titles like “Pollution” (Tom Lehrer) and ”Let’s eat home” (Frishberg) and the spoken…

  Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her research throughout several galleries and international academic forums. Her studio practice is representative of her research on the complex symbolism of the psyche in response to various social factors, with focus on sexuality, horror, folklore, and natural science.…

Blaze Christopher is a multidisciplinary artist and poet based in London, UK. Her work revolves around challenging the confines of empathy and how play can be utilised to understand one another more. She believes radical empathy can change the way the art world communicates with itself and the world outside of it. During her stay…

  Tetsuya Hori is a composer for contemporary music. During his stay in Stöðvarfjörður he has composed an orchestral piece for a symphonic orchestra. On his work: “I always think the composition is actually not the task of creating sounds, but the task of listening to sounds from everywhere. And these sounds are in the…

Rebecca Deegan is a figurative artist from Ireland, creating dark, surreal, and atmospheric oil paintings. Before starting her residency, Rebecca researched into Icelandic folklore, and was drawn to the story of Útburður, which inspired the project she worked on at the Fish Factory. Long ago when a woman gave birth to an unwanted baby, she…

Jo is a visual artist based in Suffolk, UK, she primarily works within the public realm on large scale commissions for external and internal sites. Jo has undertaken various major projects in the UK, as well as in France, India and Ireland. Alongside her public work she also makes experimental drawings and materials-based works which…

David Unland is an audiovisual tinkerer, who came to Stöðvarfjörður from Bremen, Germany, to stay for the month of October 2021. He used his time in the creative center to write the code for a computer program that transforms the contours of mountain ridges into sound. The work focuses on rigid mountain and rock features, and how…

Based in the UK, Joe Hemming is an artist working in a variety of media including printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. “I came to the residency with an open plan and to let my experiences and surroundings influence my work. I spent time walking in the hills and became interested in the idea of deep time…