Lisette de Greeuw (1990) was born in Hoorn, the Netherlands. She lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. During her residency, she used the time at the Fish Factory to think, read and research. Besides that, she started to work on a new embroidery piece and a new series of drawings based on the embroidery work. She has also experimented a…

Mallory is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer from New York working out of Brooklyn. Mallory’s work consists of printmaking as well as wearable textiles; including drawing, painting, and small editions of clothing. She completed her B.F.A in Printmaking at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2018 and have been working on independent projects and freelance work…

Imogen Marsteller is a British-American artist who expresses herself through photography, painting and drawing. She completed her BA in Studio Arts and Art and Architectural History at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and at the University of Edinburgh. During her time at the Fish Factory, Imogen explored her many modes of creation – finding…

Karen Morris is a visual artist from Richmond, Virginia and she joined us here at the Fish Factory art residency for the month of May 2021. She spent her time here in Iceland traveling and taking pictures of landscapes. During her residency, she painted with pastels and she used her photos as a reference. The…

Sami Cutrona is a multidisciplinary artist based in San Francisco, working in sculpture, photography, and related media. Sami received a dual MFA/MA in Studio Art and History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2020 and a dual BA in Photography and Art History from Lycoming College in 2017. The…

Alba Suau is a Spanish visual artist whose work explores the isolation experience, which she defines as the total absorption of the spirit by the object. Alba has studied Fine Arts at Universitat de Barcelona and at École Supérieure d’Art & de Design Marseille-Méditerranée. Her work has been exhibited in both Marseille and Mallorca. Through her paintings,…

Ingrid Gaier is a painter, textile designer and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She is interested in poetry and finding images of this sort of written expression. Her first poetry film was about a poem by Jewish writer Rose Ausländer. She has spent her time here at the Fish Factory working on a new animation…

Erin Conyers is a ceramic and mixed media artist based in Kansas City, Missouri. She received her BFA in ceramics at The Kansas City Art Institute in 2019. She enjoys working intuitively with clay, building sculptural vessels that describe different emotions or beliefs that are often not talked about. For her, building with clay has…

Margaux Halloran is a New York-based artist from the United States where she studies fine art at Parsons School of Design. She stayed at the Fish Factory for the month of March where she experimented with oil painting and sculptural works centered around the construction of existing and non-existing structures, and grids. Her project here was to…

Constantine Blintzios is a Greek/British writer. He has a background in music and Contemporary Art and holds an Mst in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. He is primarily a writer of fiction with a focus on the lyric and its’ transformative qualities in prose. He writes about bestiaries and the way emotions can be…

Sara Sonas is a visual artist who explores materials in relation to their physicality and tactility. When constructing works, she perceives herself as a receptor; interacting between her environmental and material surroundings while reflecting on existence, transience and our relationship to nature. Observing, analyzing and responding to daily life through dialogue with nature, she reinstates the…

Marloes Staal is a visual artist from The Netherlands. She graduated in 2014 with a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) at the AKI-Artez University of the Arts in Enschede, and finished a one year post-graduate course in 2017 at the Academie in Rotterdam. From 2013 until 2018 she has been a founding member and curator…

Lilien Li is an artist from Hong Kong who celebrated her graduation from the University of Edinburgh and RMIT University with a two-month artist residency retreat. Lilien engages in her practice articulating contemporary context with her focus on the perception of time/space. While she collaborates with multi-medium, her works are transforming her temporal, spatial and…

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…