Fish Factory

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…

Gerda van de Glind is a writer based in The Netherlands. She works for different art magazines, websites and art spaces. At the Fish Factory, she has been working on a project of her own.   “Since my graduation from art school I have been working in the field of contemporary art and I’ve been…

Mary Kate Noonan is a Multidisciplinary Artist based in the United States. Her work is traditionally focused on surreal “dreamscapes” often using collage, painting, and ceramics as her chosen mediums. While at Fish Factory, Mary slowed down her rapid process of making to spend time around Stöðvarfjörður and reconnect with her passions for exploration and…

Susan Wood is a Scottish artist, now living in Gateshead in the north-east of England. Her first Residency at the Fish Factory was in March 2017. Having decided to do four Residencies, in order to experience the different seasons in the east Fjords, this is her fourth and final month in the series. Inspired by…

Martina Mäsiarová (1991) is a visual artist and art educator based in Žilina, Slovakia. She is interested in implying Montessori elements to her practice. In 2018 she graduated from The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) in the Department of Painting and Other Media in the studio led by professor Daniel Fischer, later…

Taylor Raye Erickson is a painter and art educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was her second visit with us this year, that she wanted to re-explore the landscape in Stöðvarfjörður, here on the east side of Iceland. During her residency time, Taylor made a collection of paintings mainly using acrylic paint on Yupo-paper. She has also created some short videos, where…

Ethan is a designer and illustrator from Brooklyn, New York. His original plan for his time at the residency was a series of outdoor paintings around the idea of “what do we think of as nature?”. Work-demands and pandemic-timing-changes trashed the idea of pursing this project in a monastic-single-focus way. Instead, his 3-month residency was…

Simona Ledl aka Mona L is a visual artist, working and living in Salzburg (Austria). In her works, she deals above all with the topics of connectedness and multi-layeredness, as well as the complexity associated with them. Being in touch with nature and getting inspired by the energy coming from it plays an important part…

Mikkel is an animator and illustrator from the Czech Republic, staying in the Artist Residency for the second time. He came here to take a break from making animation and started to focus on non-digital art. His artistic expression is inspired by arctic nature. First, he was focused on practicing the painting of Icelandic landscapes with animals, which…

Noah Hartley is a conservation artist and art educator based in the United States (North Carolina). His plan was to illustrate Iceland’s wildlife and in doing so study the history and relationship with them and the island they inhabit. Artist Statement: ”After seeing multiple artists that were staying there do printmaking, I decided it would be a good…

Claire Thill is a Luxembourg-based writer, performer, and theatremaker interested in exploring multidisciplinary territories of performance and storytelling. Her pieces start from concepts and broader themes rather than from a structured idea of the plot. She intertwines different elements such as text and the body in movement with image and audio in order to create…

Florian Gantner, based in Vienna (Austria), is a writer and Art director of a literary festival. During his stay at the Fish Factory, he worked on his next novel „Agile Arno“, which reflects on the future of work, service society and dignity. When not writing on his novel, he tries to create poems of undeniable…

Alicja Natalia Wacowska (Balance with Alice) is a yoga teacher with certification as RYT200 – Multi-style Yoga Teacher Training Course, Yin Yoga Teacher and Yoga Nidra. She mainly works with her own method which is based on intuitive yoga flow and consciousness movement. She is also a mentor for creative development, with a few years of professional experience working…

Anna Lehespalu is an Estonian photographer from Tallinn. She uses photography, video, and music as a medium of expression. Her process of making art is very intuitive and connected with psychology, which helps her to research and understand the human mind. She expresses her feelings by documenting her closest surroundings and environment, which is often the landscape. Artist statement: ” I…

Emma Banks is a poet born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and who has since wandered all over. She’s currently in the process of completing her BFA in English from Kenyon College and the University of Oxford. While her work is written and therefore visually static, she adds dimensionality to it by weaving storytelling and…

Members of this international collective come from various creative fields; fine arts, dance, performance, music, sound engineering, and audiovisual communication. The collective does not yet have a name. During their stay at the Centre, the group focused on creating a new performance piece juxtaposing different elements from each of their professional fields. “We used the…

Gillian Pokalo is a visual artist living and working near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the USA. Her artwork integrates printmaking, photography, and painting, and it reflects on the ways that man-made architecture is eclipsed by nature. During her residency at the Fish Factory, Gillian photo-documented abandoned farmhouses in the East Fjords, developed those images as silkscreens,…

Anne Klein is a printmaking and textile artist from Chicago in the US. She completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently an MA/MFA candidate in print media at the University of Iowa. She specializes in woven textiles, illustration, print media, and design for print. During her time…

Ruby Bateman is a visual artist, working and living in London. Her work is often self-referential, (re)depicting and translating imagery across different materials and processes. She uses film, photography, drawing, and painting to discuss her personal and political relationship with (institutionalised) motherhood. Artist statement: Iceland’s legacy for storytelling, Norse poetry, mythology, and folk law are…

Nina Schipoff is a German interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Geneva, Switzerland. She graduated from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2008 and obtained a postgraduate diploma in painting from the Gevena School of Stage Set Design in 2009. Nina articulates her art around the concepts of space, time, movement, and…

Anna Zadra is an Austrian conceptional artist and stage designer. After studying theatre-, film- and media studies at Vienna University, she completed her studies at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg with a stage- and exhibition design diploma. Her work revolves around the relationship between humankind and its surroundings. While focussing on man’s location in space,…

Sofia Fresia and Delfo Pozzi are two Italian artists working in the fields of Painting and Photography. Sofia completed her MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts of Torino in March 2021, while Delfo is studying Photography at Accademia di Brera in Milano. They decided to go to Iceland together in order to work on…

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…