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  • Winter Break

    Winter Break

    A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in 2024—it was such a bright and eventful year! Nearly 90 artists brought their creativity to Fish Factory, filling the year with inspiring art, music projects, and exhibitions. Without you, this place simply wouldn’t exist! As we head into 2025, we’re excited to continue working on our…

  • Camilla Eustance

    Camilla Eustance

    Camilla (she/they) is a Naarm-based multidisciplinary artist, sustainability advocate and learning designer. She has exhibited in multiple spaces including NOIR Darkroom, Counihan Gallery, Schoolhouse Studios, Platform Arts Geelong and Honey Bones Gallery. She is halfway through a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University. Camilla also has experience teaching art and painting murals. In 2024,…

  • Elizabeth Evans

    Elizabeth Evans

    Elizabeth Evans is a multidisciplinary artist from California, US.   The Fish Factory Artists Residency gave me the time and space to pursue artistic projects and questions that are important to me. I came to Iceland as a 2-dimensional collage artist but being in the center’s spaces with other artists engendered new directions in my thinking…

  • Nancy Pilkington

    Nancy Pilkington

    Nancy Pilkington is an artist from Stanstead Abbotts, UK. During my stay at the fish factory I had a unique opportunity to gather myself creatively. I enjoyed testing the limits of my practice, learning a new skill and taking up an old one. I began working with clay which helped build my intuition. As I…

  • Caroline Galderisi

    Caroline Galderisi

    Caroline Galderisi is a multimedia artist and photographer from Brooklyn, NY. Through layering and collage Caroline will continue this project back in NYC’s coastal areas to print cyanotypes on different objects such as driftwood and shipping containers. Website: https://galderisi.space/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinegalderisi

  • Bailey Sherwood

    Bailey Sherwood

    Bailey Sherwood is an oil painter who resides in Newberg, Oregon. Over the last several years I have done work that engages in the interplay between the natural and the unnatural by incorporating stage pieces placed in natural environments. During my stay at the Fish Factory residency, I was interested in horror and sci-fi texts…

  • Cula Bula

    Cula Bula

    Cula Bula –  Mixed Media Artist from Ireland I made my second visit to the Fish Factory this year, to honour some time out for my self. I had been working on getting my health on track and hoped to ease myself back into creativity after such a long break. I wondered around the landscape…

  • Lucy Sherston

    Lucy Sherston

    Lucy Sherston – an artist and illustrator living on the South Coast of the UK. My work often takes the form of digital collage, where I scan in hand painted elements and layer them together digitally. I think of my work as little fragments of a patchwork, that when pieced together build up a sense of…

  • Arielle Brackett

    Arielle Brackett

    Arielle Brackett is a metalsmith and educator based in Portland, Oregon. She received her BFA in metals at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2017. She has shown nationally and internationally, including Canada, Romania, Russia and Finland. Brackett has been published in numerous books, magazines and online platforms including in Society of North…

  • Riley Faulds

    Riley Faulds

    Riley Faulds is an environmental scientist in the streets, and a poet in the sheets. Originally from Whadjuk, Bindjareb and Wadandi Noongar Country on the west coast of Australia, he’s currently studying his doctorate in World Literatures at the University of Oxford. His thesis focuses on how the contrasting systems of colonial expansion in Australia,…

  • Arista Wilson

    Arista Wilson

    Arista is an artist from Virginia, United States. Arista spent the month of September teaching a crash course ceramic intensive to community members from nearby fjords and international artists in residence! Outside of teaching, Arista spent time painting grass, picking blueberries, and making dumplings.    Some thoughts on grass: “Grass is green, grass is good.…

  • Nicholas Miller and Harry O’Connor

    Nicholas Miller and Harry O’Connor

    Nicholas Miller is a composer, improviser, guitarist, and multidisciplinary artist. Their work is informed by jazz, magic, ecology, and performance art. They have performed internationally and collaborated with a huge variety of musicians and other artists. They hold degrees in jazz, guitar performance, and composition from the University of Denver, Utah State, and Oxford. Harry…

  • Adrienne Roma Sacks

    Adrienne Roma Sacks

    Adrienne Roma Sacks is a multidisciplinary artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Her visual art background is in experimental approaches to painting materials. Currently, her focus is on transforming walls of post-industrial exteriors and institutional interiors into sites of beauty. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work from Simmons University, where she was…

  • Frank Webster

    Frank Webster

    Frank Webster is a painter who lives in Queens, NY. Webster received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Webster is the recipient of numerous awards including the…

  • Irene Hoppenberg

    Irene Hoppenberg

    Irene Hoppenberg is a sculptor from Berlin, Germany. She received her Master at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her works were presented in multiple exhibitions in Europe, USA, South-Korea, Taiwan and Australia. I experimented with kites made of paper and bamboo during my stay at the Fish Factory, which offered me an ideal…

  • Tadhg Ó Cuirrín

    Tadhg Ó Cuirrín

    Tadhg is an artist from the west of Ireland, working in a variety of media, but with a background in painting and an interest in the tension between our perception of the world and the images we make to represent it. At Fish Factory, I thought a lot about Petra’s Stone Museum and other ways…

  • James DeBay

    James DeBay

    James DeBay is a young American artist, working in both Vermont and New York. Currently studying at Pratt Institute, he is pursuing his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, with a minor in History of Art and Design. ABOUT EXPERIENCE As a young artist, my relationship with art is in a constant state of flux.…

  • Marie-France Bourbeau

    Marie-France Bourbeau

    Marie-France Bourbeau is a visual artist who explores the sculptural possibilities of raw or recovered materials from nature – branches, roots, rocks, shells – which she assembles with elements modelled in clay. Her research focuses on the exploration of territory through the materials that form it, the imprint of the living world on it, and…

  • Tara Lynn MacDougall

    Tara Lynn MacDougall

    Tara Lynn MacDougall is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, QC. Her practice combines painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance, and lately has included rug hooking, and sewing. Her interest lies in a critical and humourous re-evaluation of the art historical canon, and reconsideration of distinctions between standard labour and artistic production. My time at Fish Factory involved…

  • Margaux Bula

    Margaux Bula

    After a three-month sailing trip from home, Margaux Bula (*1991, CH) arrived at the port of Stodvarsfjordur. This Biel/Bienne-based artist has a particular affinity for working in-situ, and likes to let her work evolve in space. The involvement of elements such as wind, waves and tides has infused in her during the residency at the…

  • Sonya Trolliet

    Sonya Trolliet

    Sonya Trolliet is an artist based in Lausanne, Switzerland. She works on several projects in illustration and graphic novels. She came here to feed her interests with rocks and micro-organisms. Usually, drawing and painting, she develops, here in Stödvarfjördur, a performative video work with Margaux Bula. It’s a narrative of a lost being who is…

  • Keramiknámskeið í Sköpunarmiðstöðinni á Stöðvarfirði

    Keramiknámskeið í Sköpunarmiðstöðinni á Stöðvarfirði

    Keramiknámskeið í Sköpunarmiðstöðinni á Stöðvarfirði (english below) Um námskeiðið: Á námskeiðinu læra þátttakendur að vinna með keramik, frá hugmynd til fullbúins hlutar. Þetta er grunnnámskeið fyrir þá sem vilja byrja að vinna með keramik eða þróa færni sína enn frekar. Á námskeiðinu munu þátttakendur læra að: Eftir að hafa lokið námskeiðinu öðlast þátttakendur aðild að…

  • Simone Ebner

    Simone Ebner

    Simone Ebner (stage name ‘Sijmonne’) 
- An artist working at the intersection of poetry and electronics. Simone is a musician and music therapist from Stuttgart (Germany). She came to the Fish Factory to work on her new program ‘COPY AND PASTE’, which shows the versatility of her artistic work. Her songs are a creative fusion…

  • Hilary Nelson

    Hilary Nelson

    Hilary Nelson is an artist living and working between New Mexico and Iowa. Their work combines ideas of the familiar and alien through sculpture, installation, and drawing. Material exploration acts as a foundation to confront the paradox implicit in the idea of something being “finished”. When does “usefulness” end? The materials at the Fish Factory,…