by Vicki | Jun 22, 2021 | Art, Artist
Sarah McCormick’s research considers the role of colonial agendas at play in the narrative of our global, ecological crisis. Through methods of social practice, digital transmission, and sculpture, she looks for possible solutions to an objectifying model of...
by Vicki | Jun 21, 2021 | Art, Artist
Judy Sánchez (Alaska, United States) spent the months of May and June as Artist in Residence at Nes Artist Residency, using Skagaströnd as a home-base from which to wander and explore Iceland. Primarily a photographer, she strives to make ethereal and evocative...
by Vicki | Jun 16, 2021 | Art, Artist
“I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000. I moved to Houston, Texas in 2014 and currently study art at The University of Texas Austin. I will be graduating in the Fall of 2021 with a Studio Art BFA. I love to create visually exciting images of all sizes...
by Vicki | Jun 9, 2021 | Art, Artist
Anna Katrine Thuesen, is a Danish documentary filmmaker living in Switzerland. She has been an artist in residence at Nes since April. She has been taking the time in Iceland to develop her filmmaking style, going from a formulaic television approach to a more...
by Vicki | Jun 1, 2021 | Art, Artist
“The constant connection with the elements at their purest forms. The fluent feeling you get meanwhile seeing water drop and stone melt. When art and craftsmanship are eternal allies united in the local car workshop, where Óli, a former fisherman, shared with me...
by Vicki | May 31, 2021 | Art, Artist
During my residency in the north of Iceland this May, I was inspired to make a series of plein air landscape paintings after seeing the exhibition Eternal Recurrence at the Icelandic Art Center. The show was centered around an Icelandic landscape painter from the...
