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Jessica Hemmings

Professor

Enheten för konsthantverk och fri konst
Telefon
031-786 59 85
0766-18 59 85
E-post
jessica.hemmings@hdk.gu.se
Besöksadress
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
41137 Göteborg
Postadress
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

Om Jessica Hemmings

Jessica Hemmings is a British academic, writer, and researcher specialising in textiles and contemporary craft. Born in Wales and raised in Indonesia and the United States, she holds a BFA in Textile Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MA in Comparative Literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Hemmings is currently Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg and Professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design. Her research explores the contributions of craft to contemporary society and representations of craft in postcolonial literature with a particular interest in regions such as Indonesia and Zimbabwe.

Current HDK PhD supervision includes candidates undertaking projects that explore: blacksmithing, tools and the body; textiles, dignity and mourning. Current external PhD supervision includes research projects at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Previous appointments include external examiner for the MA Textiles at the Royal College of Art, London (2017–2020) and honorary Adjunct Professorship at UNSW, Sydney (2016–2018). External PhD examination roles: Australia, Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa and Sweden.

Editorial board member of Textile: the Journal of Cloth & Culture (Taylor & Francis) and Craft Research (Intellect).

The Reading Material research project was undertaken as Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Center for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020-2023). HDK-Valand Craft was 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. Current research is funded by the Swedish Research Council under the title Carceral Craft: the material of oppression or expression? (2025-2027).

Jessica Hemmings website