Artists-in-Residence

The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive

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The first artists participating in the Frontiers in Retreat project at Skaftfell, Kati Gausmann and Richard Skelton, arrived in Iceland in the end of August. Simultaneously the volcanic activity in South Iceland reached its peak and magma started flowing from Holuhraun. Hence it was very appropriate that the artists started their journey by attending a Geology seminar in Breiðdalssetur, a research and heritage centre located in the small town of Breiðdalsvík in the East. The seminar was held in honour of the British geologist George P.L. Walker who is noted for mapping the Terier lava pile in East Iceland in the sixties and […]

“..Weeds, those Trojans..”

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Natures aesthetic preservation and human intervention / aspects of utopia and dystopia. This Thursday evening, August 28, the Greek artists Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras will present a taste of their recent project they have been working on while residing in SeyÃ°isfjÃ¶rÃ°ur as artists in residence, at the Bookshop – projectspace at 19.00. The project “Âweeds, those trojansÂ” started in August 2014 by visual artists Maria Glyka and Vassilis Vlastaras as part of Skaftfell’s artist in residence program. The artists borrowed the phrase of the title from H. D. ThoreauÂs ÂWalden; or Life in the WoodsÂ (1854) where he sets […]