Emily Hesse

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Emily Hesse
Born(1980-04-27)April 27, 1980
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire
DiedNovember 4, 2022(2022-11-04) (aged 42)
Linthorpe, North Yorkshire
Education Durham University, Sunderland University
SpouseDr Martyn Hudson
Website https://www.emilyhesse.com

Emily Hesse (27 April 1980 - 4 November 2022) was a multidisciplinary British visual artist, author and activist.

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Projects and exhibitions

In 2012, as part of the Saltburn Arts Fair in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Hesse exhibited her works, I Will Never Forget You. Not For All Of My Days and We Are As Much What Lies Behind, As We Are Tomorrow. at the Saltburn School, where she was artist in residence. [1] During her residency Hesse developed the Class One Project, which with funding from Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art sought to establish a contemporary art gallery in an old external classroom building. [2]

In 2015 Hesse exhibited as part of the Localism exhibition at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art under through her project New Linthorpe, which sought to re-imagine the work of Dr Christopher Dresser at the Linthorpe Art Pottery. [3] During this work, Hesse studied for an MA Ceramics at Sunderland University, to develop her skills as a ceramicist in order to be able to master the skills associated with ceramics and pass them on to her local community.

Hesse was selected as an artist for the Great Exhibition of the North in early 2018. When the exhibition organisers announced the sponsorship from BAE Systems Hesse worked with other artists to protest their unexpected sponsorship and following a vocal online campaign she, with her fellow campaigners, were successful in persuading the company to discontinue its support for the event. [4] [5]

In 2018, Te Me No Press published Hesse's auto-biographical book, Black Birds Born from Invisible Stars, [6] which was commissioned by curator George Vasey for the exhibition 'The Everyday Political' at the Lake Gallery at Southwark Park Galleries in London. [7] Later that year, Workplace Gallery in Gateshead hosted Hesse's solo exhibition 'The Taste of this History: a Church in my Mouth', which explored the challenges faced by female, working-class, artists such as herself. [8] [9]

In 2022 as part of The Tetley Jerwood Commissioning Programme, Hesse created The Witches’ Institution (W.I.), an exhibition imagined and developed with Professor Andrea Philips, Baltic Professor and Director BxNU Research Institute, Northumbria University. [10] [11] [12]

Publications

Awards

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  1. ↑ "Artist in Residence". The Saltburn School. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  2. ↑ "Class One Project". The Saltburn School. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  3. ↑ "Localism, an exhibition about history, visual culture, politics and making in Middlesbrough - Announcements - Art & Education". www.artandeducation.net. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  4. ↑ Selvin, Claire (21 December 2018). "The Year in Protest: From the Met to Chapel Hill to Kochi and Beyond". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  5. ↑ "BAE Systems withdraws sponsorship of Great Exhibition of the North, minister calls artists' campaign "a disgrace" - a-n The Artists Information Company" . Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  6. 1 2 Hesse, Emily, 1980- (2018). Black birds born from invisible stars. [England]. ISBN   978-1-9164257-0-5. OCLC   1085198464.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "Southwark Park Galleries | The gallery by the pool | The Everyday Political". Southwark Park Galleries. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Arts Foundation | Hesse, Emily" . Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  9. ↑ www.dandelion-burdock.com, dandelion & burdock (14 January 2019). "Emily Hesse: The Taste of this History: A Church in my Mouth". thisistomorrow. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  10. ↑ "Emily Hesse: The Witches' Institution (W.I.)". The Tetley. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Emily Hesse: The Witches' Institution (W.I.)". Corridor8. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  12. ↑ "Emily Hesse at The Tetley". www.artforum.com. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  13. ↑ "Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award Nomination". The Saltburn School. 25 April 2013. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  14. ↑ "Henry Moore Foundation awards £60,000 in rapid-response to artists across the UK amid the Covid-19 pandemic". Henry Moore Foundation. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
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