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Jessica Hemmings
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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 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 the University of the Arts Bremen and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest; 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).
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Afterword
Jessica Hemmings
Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade, c. 1840-1980 - 2025 -
Thinking in Motion
Editorial
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE journal - 2024 -
Powers of Love
Editorial
Jessica Hemmings, Jyoti Mistry
PARSE Journal - 2024 -
Enduring: The Politics of Teresa Lanceta's Textile
Art
Jessica Hemmings
Teresa Lanceta: La Memoire Tissee - 2024 -
Cross Pollination: An Interview Between Jessica Hemmings and Yuriko
Saito
Jessica Hemmings
Disegno - 2024 -
What Are Postcolonial Textiles? What Are Decolonial
Textiles?
Jessica Hemmings
Textile Textures: multithreaded narratives - 2024 -
Towards a Minor Textile Architecture: Kathryn Clark, Loren Schwerd, and Igshaan
Adams
Jessica Hemmings
Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Theories, Sites and Research Methods - 2024 -
Textile Memories (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2024 -
Makers Who Move: solitary exercise and the creative
mind
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE Journal - 2024 -
Thinking in
Motion
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE Journal - 2024 -
Geometrically Wired. IO Van Oostveldt: Between Clothing and Art (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Clothing Cultures - 2024 -
Material Scent: Textiles beyond
Touch
Jessica Hemmings
Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities - 2023 -
Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Journal of Modern Craft - 2023 -
Picasso/Chanel (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Fashion Theory - 2023 -
Preface
Jessica Hemmings
Design Materials and Making for Social Change: From Materials We Explore to Materials We Wear - 2023 -
Can That Be Taught? Lessons in Embodied Knowledge from Memoir Writing for Craft and Design
Education
Jessica Hemmings
Somaesthetics and Design Culture - 2023 -
The Textile Reader (second
edition)
Jessica Hemmings
2023 -
Franz West: Últimas décadas (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Journal of Modern Craft - 2022 -
Seventeen Exceptions to Nine Observations about Textile Art
Today
Jessica Hemmings
En Katt Bland Hermeliner: Textil konst nu - 2022 -
Violence:
Materiality
Jessica Hemmings, Ole Lutzow-Holm
PARSE Journal - 2022 -
Violence: Materiality
Editorial
Jessica Hemmings, Ole Lützow-Holm
PARSE Journal - 2022 -
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 -
Array
Collective
Jessica Hemmings
Selvedge Magazine - 2021 -
O PANO FLÁCIDO: ESTRATÉGIAS DE EXPOSIÇÃO
TÊXTIL
Jessica Hemmings
Livro do Ponto - 2021 -
Exhibition review: Anne Wilson and Kustaa
Saksi
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2021 -
Maximum Space around the Typewriter: Yvonne Vera and the Craft of
Writing
Jessica Hemmings
Wasafiri - 2021 -
Trusting Play: Yuka Oyama’s “SurvivaBall Home
Suits”
Jessica Hemmings
Surface Design Journal - 2021 -
Textual Agency: Pitfalls and
Potentials
Jessica Hemmings
Design and Agency: Critical Perspectives on Identities, Histories, and Practices - 2020 -
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 -
Fugitive
Nature
Jessica Hemmings
EARTH, WIND, FIRE, WATER Nordic Contemporary Crafts – A Critical Craft Anthology - 2020 -
Intersections PARSE
JOURNAL
Jyoti Mistry , Jessica Hemmings, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE JOURNAL - 2020 -
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 -
That's Not Your Story: Faith Ringgold Publishing on
Cloth
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE - 2020 -
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 -
Intersections
Editorial
Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, Jyoti Mistry, Jessica Hemmings
PARSE - 2020 -
Real Physical Labour, Material Understanding & the Wisdom of the Weaver's
Hands
Jessica Hemmings
Disegno / The Journal of Design Culture - 2020 -
Floppy Cloth: Textile Exhibition Strategies Inside the White
Cube
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2019 -
Iris Van Herpen: Transforming Fashion (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Fashion Theory - 2019 -
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 -
Igshaan Adams: Material
Traces
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2019 -
Rereading and revising: Acknowledging the smallness (sometimes) of
craft
Jessica Hemmings
Craft Research - 2018 -
Lisa Oppenheim: Spine & Derrick Adams: Transmission (exhibition
reviews)
Jessica Hemmings
Surface Design Journal - 2018 -
the (small) voice of craft in Yvonne Vera’s
fiction
Jessica Hemmings
Afems Conference (Grahamstown, South Africa) - 2018 -
Navigating Cultural
Threads
Jessica Hemmings
Cultural Threads exhibition catalogue - 2018 -
Challenging
Knitting
Jessica Hemmings
Challenge Knitting (conference keynote) - 2018 -
Material
Color
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2018 -
Weaving & We: Second Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017 -
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 -
Christian Thompson at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017 -
Migrations
exhibition
Jessica Hemmings
Huddersfield Gallery of Art, England - 2017 -
Pleasures & Misdemeanours (catalogue
essay)
Jessica Hemmings
Confabulations of the Millenia (exhibition catalogue essay) - 2017 -
Can That be Taught? Lessons in Tacit Knowledge
(lecture)
Jessica Hemmings
Sydney Craft week & University of New South Wales, Australia (lecture) - 2017 -
Craft & Ethics
symposium
Jessica Hemmings
November 24-25, 2017, HDK, Röhsska Museum, Nääs - 2017 -
Who Speaks Now? craft discourse within the
university
Jessica Hemmings
PARSE "Exclusion" conference presentation Nov. 16, 2017 - 2017 -
Jessica Ogden: Still (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Garland - 2017 -
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 -
Louise Bourgeois. The Structure of Existence: The Cells (exhibition
review)
Jessica Hemmings
Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture - 2017 -
Gaolbreak: Angela
Fulcher
Jessica Hemmings
exhibition catalogue - 2017 -
Unlearning Optical Illusions: Toril
Johannessen
Jessica Hemmings
Norwegian Crafts - 2017