A weekend to remember

by | Jul 15, 2012 | Uncategorized

All our guests are busy working and on july 13th they very generously shared their ideas and works with each other and some guests. It was a big fiest for all of us. Some guests were leaving and new appeared. The Laugardalur valley holds some secret treasures we...

We welcome our July guests

by | Jul 8, 2012 | Uncategorized

Our guests in July though not all at the same time. Auke de Vries, animation artist, Breda, Netherlands – www.grabbelfant.nl/thesuperropesolution Brooke Holve,  artist, CA, USA – www.brookeholve.com Elizabeth Sher, artist and filmmaker, CA, USA – www.ivstudios.com Amy...

June activities

by | Jun 28, 2012 | Uncategorized

June has been a busy month at Gullkistan. Click on READ MORE to see some photos. Guests have been very busy at work and there are some photos of work in progress. The Laugarvatn community celebrated Independence day on the 17th and we took part in that. The farm...

Midsummer Night – Jónsmessa

by | Jun 24, 2012 | Uncategorized

A walk up to the top of Laugarvatnsfjall mountain on Midsummer night. For more photos click READ MORE. Gullkistan has vacancies in August and in the autumn, October, November and December. We have already started confirming applications for...

Gullspretturinn 2012

by | Jun 16, 2012 | Uncategorized

The annual GOLDSPRINT was now held for the 8th time. It started as part of the Gullkistan Art Festival in 2005 and every year the number of participants grows. Click MORE to see the photos of these amazing heroes. Gullspretturinn var fyrst hluti dagskrárinnar á...

Welcome!

by | Jun 7, 2012 | Uncategorized

We welcome our June guests, from 6 countries working on paintings, photographs, video, performance, music, animation and filming. No wonder we are happy! Velkomin til Gullkistunnar og Íslands! 1.     Jill Bennett, writer and curator,  Australia – www.niea.unsw.edu.au...

May guest departure!

by | Jun 2, 2012 | Uncategorized

Keiko Kurita artist from Japan  and Kerstin Jakobsson artist from Sweden have been our guests in May. Here you can see Kerstin’s description about her work and a few of her works. Below a link to their website and one more to Keiko’s photos from her...