Bea Austin is a director, producer, and filmmaker from London, whose work primarily focuses on documentaries addressing human rights, current affairs and community. Currently, she is exploring more experimental
filmmaking, researching a project that blends documentary and fiction to create a surreal and comedic portrayal
of the relationship between trees and humanity. She is the co-founder of Beeline Studio, a production
company focused on storytelling.

During her time here, Bea will be writing, filming, and editing a short film centred on themes of connection and resilience, inspired by the local landscapes. The film will feature a mix of footage shot over the years, bits shot here, and archive footage.

https://www.instagram.com/beaaustin/ and https://www.instagram.com/beeline.studio/

Noga Harel is an Israeli artist and goldsmith based in Dundee, Scotland whose practice is focused on a love for materials, textures, tactility and a sense of place. Her works are investigations of the environment and her relationship with the local landscape through wanderings, poetry, photography, and the collection of objects. She uses her goldsmiths skills to make jewellery pieces, objects and sculptural pieces integrating both natural and manmade materials. 

Driven by a deep relationship to the land she works with these raw materials sourced from the landscape whether it is bones, seaweed, rocks or driftwood. Noga translates elements of her personal journey through space and time as unique and small objects and jewelry pieces, quintessentially intimate in nature, in a slow meditative process.  You can see more of Noga's work at https://www.nogaharelcontemporaryjewellery.com/

María Fernanda is a Puerto Rican-based photographer, environmental interpreter, cyanotype artist, biologist, and outdoor adventurer. This year she’s been working with alternative photography processes like cyanotype and polaroid emulsion lifts. She created dream-like photography capturing ethereal and fragile moments using crystals and prisms on her camera lenses, adding movement with long and double exposure. 

Her strong connection and intimate knowledge of the natural world runs throughout her work as a common thread. During NES artist residency, María has been experimenting with all these techniques and with film photography using different experimental 35mm films. Lyrical photography of the common daily elements of Skagaströnd and around Iceland are her creations.

Instagram: @adnanref12  and https://www.mafernandarodriguez.com/

Rebecca Dyck is a comics artist from Toronto and Berlin. She is interested in personal themes such as family, memory, and storytelling, and works in variety of traditional media.  You can see more of Rebecca’s work on her websites rebeccarebeccabreakfast.com and rebeccasketch.com

joj (them/them) is a France-based American nonbinary writer of creative nonfiction–memoir, essay, prose poetry. They are a self-described collector of unused graduate degrees, the most recent (2020) an MA in Creative Writing from Ball State University. Their work explores themes of place, class, queerness, parenthood, infant loss, plant medicine, and the nomadic/peripatetic. Their writing has appeared in Insider, Parents, Yes!, Five Minutes, Your Life is A Trip, and The Matador Network and New Lines.

While at NES, they are finishing the revisions of the memoir they completed at NES in May of 2023–entitled HOW I LEARNED FRENCH–which weaves the story of their year of study abroad in France into glimpses of their backstory couched in the experience of movies that suggested France (and French) would be socially transformative–an interrogation of how television and film shape expectations and reality perception of the low/poverty class. 

Instagram and Linktree: @jojthefirst

Facebook: Joj Thefirst

Bluesky: @jojthefirst.bsky.social

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