The first snow had just fallen when I met a woman farmer called Bjarney in October 2023. It was a chance meeting outside a remote fishing village in north Iceland on an artist residency.

Bjarney showed me around her farm and gave me a car with two bags of sheep’s wool for spinning and addresses of other women farmers in the north.

These photographs share the stories of working women I have met in the northern rural areas of Iceland. They are resilient, dynamic, hard working and soft-hearted and are many things: sisters, mothers, horse keepers, environmental scientists, seawomen, sheep farmers…..

This project will develop into east Greenland in spring 2025 to get to know the lives of women within traditional hunting communities.