Residency events and activities

New international collaboration “Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters”

We are excited to announce Skaftfell’s participation in the international collaborative project “Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters”, led by the Faculty of Art at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University and House of Arts in Ústi nad Labem, Czech Republic. Our project partners include four non-profit organisations working with community building art practices in the Czech Republic, and eight other art organizations from across the world. The 3-year project is funded by the EEA Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Grants from 2022 to 2024. “Gardening of Soul: In Five Chapters” explores and commissions public artworks that engage in community building and place making. The […]

Artist talk: Brooke Holve (US), Catherine Richardson (UK/US), Eve Provost Chartrand

Join us for an artist talk with Skaftfell’s current residency artists on Wednesday, September 28, 17:30-18:30 in the Skaftfell apartment (top floor). Coffee and biscuits will be served. Brooke Holve lives and works in the small town of Sebastopol, CA, about an hour north of San Francisco. Inspired by the natural processes of landscapes, her work investigates the nature of shaping, in particular the interactions of internal/exterior processes with materials and language. She is artist-in-residence at Skaftfell for the month of September 2022. Catherine Richardson lives and works in-between London, UK, and Healdsburg, Northern California. Her work, mostly drawing and […]