Jo is a musician based in Berlin (DEU). She puzzles crooked tone songs from field recordings. In each of her songs she deeply steps into the world of her sound sources and discovers her own musical terrain by falling in love with hidden and dirty sounds, shaping them sensitively and developing a unique feeling for…

Annika Kiiskilä is a visual artist and comic author based in Tampere, Finland. They graduated from Kankaanpää art school with a Bachelor of Arts in 2014, and have since worked as an independent artist, as well as a gallery assistant and printmaker in Gallery Himmelblau. Annika has been drawing creatures, characters and comics since childhood,…

Paul Belenky lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brandeis University in 2014 with dual bachelor’s degrees in biology and studio art. He completed his MFA at MassArt in 2017 and spent the next two years teaching visual art in elementary school. Paul lives life in the pursuit of a state of a…

Bea May Lucas is a visual artist living and working in the UK. She specializes in figurative paintings, the content of which blurs the lines between reality and fiction, encapsulating the viewer in her imagination. She is interested in animals and animal-human interactions – a relationship between separate species. Her keen interest in animals and animal instincts comes forward…

Diane Drubay is a visual artist who uses the psychoactive effect of colours and the construction of landscapes to awaken emotions, sensations and awareness of nature. During her residency, she focused on the colours of Iceland in the depths of winter in February through photography, telling the story of a future unfolding before our eyes every…

Seán Cotter is a visual artist living and working in Ireland. He is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and has attended residencies in Ireland, Finland, Iceland and Germany. He has held numerous solo exhibitions in Ireland as well as abroad, and is engaged with the artistic community locally, nationally, and…

Elle DioGuardi is a visual artist living and working in Boston, MA, USA. She graduated with a BFA from the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University in 2015. Since then, she has continued her studio practice, showing her work around Boston, Cambridge, and New York, and working as a professional photographer,…

Eva is a multimedia artist and tattooer interested in video, experimental animation, printmaking and fiber art. She was using her residency time at Stöðvarfjörður to explore animation and film techniques. Thematically the work is developing alongside research in Icelandic folklore. Eva is interested in the way cultural beliefs in magical animals can lend itself to…

Dario Zeo is an artist from Switzerland. He stayed at Fish Factory for one month in November 2019. Dario came to Iceland in order to expose himself and his work to an unknown situation. Mainly working in the field of conceptual and language-based art, he concentrates on the process of doing art, which he sees as…

Mercedes Villalba is a researcher and writer from Argentina. She studied Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and at The New School for Social Research in New York. Now she is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis, where she researches the commodification of geothermal landscapes. She has…

Nick Rasmussen is a visual artist and wedding photographer from the United States, and is currently based in the state of Indiana. Nick studied at the Fish Factory – Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjöður for one month in November 2019, creating photographs and compiling time-lapses of the landscapes there to use as part of a larger,…

Christine Dewancker is an artist from Canada currently living in Toronto, Ontario. Christine was at the Fish Factory for one month in November. Her work is site-specific, responding to the ecological, historical and social conditions that inform and produce a place. She was inspired by the vastness of the landscape here and what made a…

Sibylle Nagel came from Austria, the land without the sea. Sibylle wanted to get to know to the sea. She collected sea wheat, stones and different items that sea had taken to the shore. Sibylle visited the sea during sunny, rainy and wintery October days, here in Stöðvarfjörður.  She was watching the sea and listening, what…

Gabriela Monnerat and Rodrigo Amim – aka ONZE – came to the Fish Factory to be inspired by Icelandic nature and culture. They also took advantage of this distance from their homes to reflect on the conservative wave that spread recently over Brazil, as well as many other countries. Using mixed media – sculpture, drawing, painting, filming, literature –…

Kathryn Maguire is an Installation Artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Kathryn came to the Fish Factory for a residency for the month of October 2019. She spent her time here exploring the remote landscapes of the East Fjords researching geological phenomenon. Her findings shall inform solo shows in 20/21 investigating The Physical World and Materials. She…

Wong Mei Yin Hazel was born and raised in Hong Kong, graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts (HKBU) in 2015. She works mostly with painting and independent publication. Mei Yin´s works are all about the relationship between humans and the cityscape or landscape. //More of Mei Yin´s work// wongmeiyinoo.com instagram.com/wongmeiyin

Tobias Carroll is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the Fish Factory for a residency in October 2019. For most of his time there, he worked on a short nonfiction book about political signs for the Object Lessons series. He also worked on a surreal novel set in a mysterious city.…

  Razielle Aigen is an artist and a poet from Montreal, Canada. She came to spent the month of October to the Fish Factory – Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, so she could focus on her writing projects. During her residency time, Razielle was working on poetry and making creative research on eco-poetics. She enjoyed her walks surrounded by beautiful…

Santiago Martinez Peral is a visual artist from Spain living in Madrid. Santiago spent the month of September here in the Fish Factory artist residency, and it was his first residency experience outside of Spain. During his residency time, Santiago painted several works with acrylics, combining it with crayon details. It was a pleasure for other artists…

  Raquel Mora Bajo is an artist from Spain, who came to Fish Factory´s art residency in the month of September. Raquel started her day´s by walking to the local waterfall and back to the Studio, where she used to write and listen to a jazz concert while enjoying her morning coffee. Walks in nature got her…

Aki Sung is a visual artist from Hong-Kong, and she spent the month of September here at the Fish Factory art residency. At home, she works with print-making focused on etching, illustrations and drawings. Aki wanted to find inspiration from Iceland, do a new series of work, and relax after all the things happening in…

Nola Boyle is an artist from the USA living in Philadelphia. She spent the months of August and September here in East-Iceland. During her residency time, Nola was preparing her upcoming portfolio. She was working with clay and experimenting with sticks and stones. Nola produced 36 cups made from clay, and she placed these cups in…

Ella Webb is an illustrator based in the United Kingdom, who spent the month of September here in the Fish Factory artist residency. She came to work on a new series of work, for her upcoming show in Japan in October and November 2019. Ella created drawings, designed prints and worked with loom and cross-stitching. Most of…