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This winter’s February group residency is well over and in this blog-post we are looking back at a fantastic week together with a great group of creatives in our Fjord!
Another winter residency is over and we had a lot of fun hosting our 2019 group! They were 6 international artists from America, Scotland, Japan and South Korea and worked in various art fields such as music, drawing, photography, collage and sculpting. This group was exceptionally good at blending into our local community, meaning going to the local swimming pool to drink a lot of coffee wit the locals, and we had a blast of a final show in our coffee house the day before they left!
Below you can read a small profile of each of the artists and find links for more information about them.
Participants in the February 2018 residency created work that was deeply personal, using the Westfjords landscape in their work to reflect on past personal experiences, or creating art that represented their unique interpretation of the landscape itself.
Artists from the United States, Greece, Belgium, Venezuela, and Norway took part in the May 2017 group residency. Their projects included painting and drawing, photography, writing, and film - much of it incorporating local life and nature directly into the pieces they created during the residency.
The group that arrived in Þingeyri for the February 2017 residency brought an exceptionally wide range of different experiences and practices to our little village - their projects included soundscapes, hand-drawn illustration, photography, architecture, filmmaking, and more.
This past Monday was the last day of the Spring 2016 group residency. This year we hosted eight international artists - their projects included light installations, an experimental dinner, paintings, writing inspired by nature, and more.
We are happy to announce that our May 2016 group residency program is now open for applications. Please check GROUP RESIDENCIES for more information.
We are very happy to be able to say this!! The Westfjords Residency is a project we have been dreaming about ever since we arrived in Thingeyri in 2005 and stated rebuilding our house.
For my project, I planned to return to working with the fiber techniques that I had used when I first started making art in undergraduate and graduate school, but taken in a new direction.
On Monday May 11th—day 3 at the Westfjords Residency— I read in the New York Times that the Obama Administration had granted Shell conditional approval to drill for oil and natural gas off the Alaskan coast.
My theme is how to identify the architecture by fundamental manipulation. In other words, my design method is a kind of translation and to extract a specific essence to define the value of contemporary architecture.
During my time at the Westfjords Residency, I investigated Thingeyri's awe inspiring landscape through idiosyncratic physical interactions: I wanted to learn of the land through the body. I was struck by how often the environment looks animal-like.
I’m a visual artist whose ethnobotanical works on paper are inspired by the natural history explorers of bygone days. The 10 day Westfjords Residency gave me the opportunity to explore and record the plants and the
I heard about the Westfjords Residency on a facebook page. I had been looking for a place from which to form a new sound project, and thought that this residency could be just it.
In the lighttime, the wave is broken in the seashine. That wave is broken on the shoreline, looking out when the light is hard to see when the light is hardly seen.
My work is about eliciting specific behaviors and emotions through the designed experiences. There’s a concept called “The Objective Correlative” created by TS Eliot.
One morning, I met a woman at a swimming pool. We chatted about her hometown in the Faroe Islands and my residency experience in Thingeyri.
In the month of February 2016, we hosted a Lithuania-Icelandic artist exchange program called "Questioning Arts".