Fish Factory – Creative Centre
The Residency is multi-disciplinary and open for most creative directions: Visual Art, New Media, Printmaking, Sculpture, Dance, Performing Arts, Land Art, Textile Art, Music, Literature, Sustainable Design, Engineering & Photography. The purpose of the program is to provide emerging and established artists, creatives, designers and progressive thinkers a port for free expression and a place to meet with other creative people in a small collaborative community.
It is worth to mention that dog Tumi is “at work” in the Centre most days and he follows the Team Members around. Tumi is a very human friendly dog who is not a guest in the Artist Studios unless invited by artists.
They offer artists time and space to focus and introspect on their practice on their own terms. Therefore there is no obligation placed on our participating artists to have any kind of artistic output to the broader community. If an artist wants to lead a workshop, exhibit his/her works, hold a concert/perform or read poetry during their stay it is very welcome but not mandatory.
A shared studio (95 m2) for 8 artists.
The residency artists stay together in two big houses. The houses are located in the heart of the small village and are about 3-5 min walking distance from the Centre. The houses have garden, spacious bedrooms, large kitchens, living room, bathroom, washroom and internet access. Each artist has their own private bedroom and shares other facilities with his/her housemates. Upon arrival each artist gets 2 towels and bed linen. They also provide toilet paper, cleaning products for housecleaning and washing machine soap.
Artists can invite their partner or a guest for a short stay upon prior arrangement with a team member. The maximum stay is five nights. Volunteers and Interns stay at the house as well.
The Centre has fully equipped wood & metal workshops, ceramic workshop, kitchen, small library, and a Concert hall. Artists have access to the workshops & facilities in the Centre, in consultation with a team member and based on individual skills.
Fish Factory – Creative Centre is a former fish factory located in Stöðvarfjörður, a remote village in the East fjords of Iceland, approximately 650 km from Reykjavík. The village is surrounded by scenery dominated by the mountain Súla. The village has about 180 inhabitants, rich fishing tradition, 2 galleries, restaurant/motel, fitness gym, swimming pool (open only in the summer), and a largest private stone collection in Europe. There are now also growing sustainable tendencies within the community for it is experiencing large scale depopulation as an effect of closure of the local fish factory.