Jessica Hemmings
About Jessica Hemmings
textiles, contemporary craft, postcolonial literature
I joined HDK in January of 2017 as Professor of Craft. My research interests focus on understanding the contribution textiles make to contemporary society; representations of craft in postcolonial literature; how – and why – practitioners write. Indonesia and Zimbabwe are geographic areas of interest.
Current PhD supervision includes three candidates undertaking projects that explore: digital and analogue image making in tapestry weaving; the spaces of community hand weaving; blacksmithing, tools and the body. External PhD supervisor for research projects at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna & University of the Arts Bremen. I was external examiner for the MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art, London (2017–2020) and held an honorary Adjunct Professorship at UNSW, Sydney (2016–2018). External MA & PhD examination roles include Australia, Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden & USA.
Editorial board member of Textile: the Journal of Cloth & Culture (Taylor & Francis) and Craft Research (Intellect).
The Reading Material research project is undertaken as Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Center for Material Culture, the Netherlands in 2020-2021. Due to Covid-19 the project is now extended through 2022. HDK-Valand Craft is one of four Nordic partners associated with the Materiality, Maker Practices and Design Studio Pedagogy at the Digital Age (2020-2024) funded by the Academy of Finland.
Forthcoming publications include a monograph about the Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen and the second edition of The Textile Reader.
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The Textile Reader (second
edition)
Jessica Hemmings
- 2023-01-01 -
Franz West: Últimas décadas (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Journal of Modern Craft - 2022-01-01 -
Array
Collective
Jessica Hemmings
Selvedge Magazine - 2021-01-01 -
A Dialogue about Social Weaving: The Weaving Kiosk and Weaving
Lab
Jessica Hemmings, Rosa Tolnov Clausen, Marianne Fairbanks
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2021-01-01 -
O PANO FLÁCIDO: ESTRATÉGIAS DE EXPOSIÇÃO
TÊXTIL
Jessica Hemmings
Livro do Ponto - 2021-01-01 -
Exhibition review: Anne Wilson and Kustaa
Saksi
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2021-01-01 -
Maximum Space around the Typewriter: Yvonne Vera and the Craft of
Writing
Jessica Hemmings
Wasafiri - 2021-01-01 -
Trusting Play: Yuka Oyama’s “SurvivaBall Home
Suits”
Jessica Hemmings
Surface Design Journal - 2021-01-01 -
Textual Agency: Pitfalls and
Potentials
Jessica Hemmings
Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices - 2020-01-01 -
Fugitive
Nature
Jessica Hemmings
EARTH, WIND, FIRE, WATER Nordic Contemporary Crafts – A Critical Craft Anthology - 2020-01-01 -
Intersections PARSE
JOURNAL
Jyoti Mistry , Jessica Hemmings, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE JOURNAL - 2020-01-01 -
How Do You Footnote a Smile? One Dialog about Two Extremes of Textile
Research
Jessica Hemmings, Birgitta Nordström
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2020-01-01 -
Material Matters in Paintings at the End of an
Era
A Bumhira, E de Greef, T Dhlakama, Jessica Hemmings, H Proud
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2020-01-01 -
That's Not Your Story: Faith Ringgold Publishing on
Cloth
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE - 2020-01-01 -
In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury at the Art Institute of Chicago (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Journal of Modern Craft - 2020-01-01 -
Intersections
Editorial
Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, Jyoti Mistry, Jessica Hemmings
PARSE - 2020-01-01 -
Real Physical Labour, Material Understanding & the Wisdom of the Weaver's
Hands
Jessica Hemmings
Disegno / The Journal of Design Culture - 2020-01-01 -
Iris Van Herpen: Transforming Fashion (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Fashion Theory - 2019-01-01 -
Knitting after Making: what we do with what we
make
Jessica Hemmings
Textiles, community and controversy : the knitting map / edited by Jools Gilson and Nicola Moffat - 2019-01-01 -
Floppy Cloth: Textile Exhibition Strategies Inside the White
Cube
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2019-01-01 -
Igshaan Adams: Material
Traces
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2019-01-01 -
Rereading and revising: Acknowledging the smallness (sometimes) of
craft
Jessica Hemmings
Craft Research - 2018-01-01 -
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine & Derrick Adams: Transmission (exhibition
reviews)
Jessica Hemmings
Surface Design Journal - 2018-01-01 -
the (small) voice of craft in Yvonne Vera’s
fiction
Jessica Hemmings
Afems Conference (Grahamstown, South Africa) - 2018-01-01 -
Navigating Cultural
Threads
Jessica Hemmings
Cultural Threads exhibition catalogue - 2018-01-01 -
Challenging
Knitting
Jessica Hemmings
Challenge Knitting (conference keynote) - 2018-01-01 -
Material
Color
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2018-01-01 -
Wings of a Ragtag Quest: Chronicles of a Passionate Pursuit of Appliqué by Nell Battle Booker Sonnemann, edited by Patricia Malarcher, designed by Sarah Bodine (book
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017-01-01 -
Christian Thompson at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017-01-01 -
Weaving & We: Second Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017-01-01 -
Migrations
exhibition
Jessica Hemmings
Huddersfield Gallery of Art, England - 2017-01-01 -
Pleasures & Misdemeanours (catalogue
essay)
Jessica Hemmings
Confabulations of the Millenia (exhibition catalogue essay) - 2017-01-01 -
Can That be Taught? Lessons in Tacit Knowledge
(lecture)
Jessica Hemmings
Sydney Craft week & University of New South Wales, Australia (lecture) - 2017-01-01 -
Craft & Ethics
symposium
Jessica Hemmings
November 24-25, 2017, HDK, Röhsska Museum, Nääs - 2017-01-01 -
Who Speaks Now? craft discourse within the
university
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE "Exclusion" conference presentation Nov. 16, 2017 - 2017-01-01 -
Jessica Ogden: Still (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Garland - 2017-01-01 -
Textiles, Taxes and Traditions: the changing meaning of Dutch Wax Resist (catalogue
essay)
Jessica Hemmings
ARoS FOCUS // NEW NORDIC Unlearning Optical Illusions: Toril Johannessen - 2017-01-01 -
Louise Bourgeois. The Structure of Existence: The Cells (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017-01-01 -
Gaolbreak: Angela
Fulcher
Jessica Hemmings
exhibition catalogue - 2017-01-01 -
Unlearning Optical Illusions: Toril
Johannessen
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2017-01-01