Hannah Brinson is an American narrative artist and illustrator with a focus on picture book illustration. She works primarily in traditional media including pastels, colored pencils, markers, watercolor, and collage. Whether she is creating a stand alone piece, a...

Manon West was born 1999 in Ireland. In 2022, she received her Honors BA in Contemporary Art at the Atlantic Technological University, Galway. She works in multiple mediums, focusing on classical figurative art and surrealism. Her personal environment is a central...

Alexa R. McGinn is a Canadian playwright, actor, and writer based in Mohkinstsis (Calgary) in Alberta. She has performed at the Victoria Fringe Festival, the Calgary Fringe Festival, and the Common Ground Festival. She had produced her own work, including a solo-show,...

Iuliia Lebed is a scenographer and craft artist who works with space, objects, and materials to tell stories. She started with painting and exhibitions, but later moved to stage design and applied art, where objects become part of a living scene. Her work includes...

Musician-in-residence Heather Pinkham gave a solo concert in Hólaneskirkja on Wednesday January 28 at 17.00. The Program included Heather's own piano compositions, as well pieces by Claude Debussy, Arvo Pärt, and William Bolcom. HEATHER PINKHAM is a pianist, composer,...

Celine Pierre is a composer and an artistic director. Her's work stems from the fields of painting and performance, architecture, from experimental cinema, improvisation and music creation. Celine Pierre composes visual and sound crossings, taking the form of...

Thom Zahler is a comic book creator and animation writer. He created the Line Webtoons hit series Cupid's Arrows and Warning Label as well as the Harvey-nominated Love and Capes, Long Distance and the time-traveling wine comic Time and Vine. His latest project is The...

Pei-Fen Hsu is a Taiwanese female poet and writer. Her earlier work focuses on intimacy, emotional experience, psychosomatic conditions, and the ways individuals struggle to adapt to the world. In recent years, she has begun using research and writing experiments to...

Kate Hendry is an emerging visual artist and educator based on Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. Hendry received her Bachelor of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2024. As a self described, "unreliable narrator" her oil paintings explore the...

My art practice explores the psychology behind change, coping mechanisms, resistance to change, and the desire for perceived futures. I am interested in such themes because they examine how and why we position ourselves within social structures. My latest area of...

joj (they/them) is a France-based American nonbinary writer of creative nonfiction–memoir, essay, and flash/prose poetry. They are a self-described collector of unused graduate degrees, the most recent (2020) an MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University. Their...

Leif Weigel (they/them) is a writer and fiber artist from the farmland of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. At NES, Leif has been researching and exploring ancestral methods of processing wool, plants, and found objects washed up on the shore or strewn along roadsides....

Dana Engfer is a Berlin-based multi-media artist. In each work she incorporates a wide variety of media such as drawing, collage, photography, video and books. Dana sees herself as a collector of different traces of time, memories and intermediate states, representing...

Tom Presman is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv. Through intimate and everyday gestures and rituals, she examines how personal and collective histories are embodied, how the body becomes a vessel for memory and transformation. In her work, a place charged...

Moritz Otto is an artist and designer from Berlin, whose artistic work reflects a deep engagement with the banality of everyday life and the spontaneous observation of urban scenes. His distinct and enduring visual language lets ordinary objects suddenly pull a face,...

Printmaker from Germany, educated at Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, living and working in Marl and Herten, Northrhine- Westfalia. My prints are regularly shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions as well as at art fairs.Usually realizing big abstract...

Mara Mars, Visual Artist, SwitzerlandPhotography, installation. painting, embroidered works, fabric and leather wall pieces are the media I work with. maramars.kleio.com

Gwendolyn Tatreaux is a printmaker and poet living and working year-round on the small island of Islesboro, in the Penobscot Bay of Maine,  USA. Her work engages multiple mediums, exploring hidden languages, myth and archetypal beings deciphered from the natural...

Half-man, half-crab. Pedro Gunnlaugur Garcia is not “all there” mentally. When he says he writes, you have to understand that it is mostly pornography and that it is very bad and confusing pornography because he doesn’t seem to know where all the organs are, who...

Kerry Quinn is a photographer using 35mm and polaroid film to capture energy, spirits and auras in the natural world. I seek to reveal what the eye can't see but the soul knows to be a true, a dance between light and dark, living all the colors in between. During my...