The deadline for the Skaftfell residency program in 2015 expired on September 1 and nearly 180 applications were received. A selection panel goes over the applications and results will be announced to the artists in the coming weeks. In recent years, more than twenty international artists stayed on an annual basis, total of three artists at a time are staying for one month or longer. The aim of the program is to support the creative process of artists and give them space and time to work on their artistic creation. The program is self-directed with the possibility of support from […]
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The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive
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 […]