In studying for a master's degree at EIT, Susan Mabin is drawing on her experience of working as an artist in a remote settlement in Iceland's far north.
Susan completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design at EIT's ideaschool in 2014. Deciding then on a gap year to take up an artist's residency overseas, she chose Iceland, a country she first visited in her mid-20s.
"It's taken me some years to get back there," she says of the Nordic island, which is celebrated for its striking landscape of glaciers, tundra, lava fields, live volcanoes, geysers and hot springs.
Susan's 2½ months in Olafsfjordur - "the most isolated town I could find" - was the genesis of a body of work based on man-made and natural objects, which she now largely collects from local beaches but also gathers on walks near her Hastings home.
The finds are from what she characterises as transitional spaces - "the threshold between nature and human habitation".