Hemmings is a Professor of Craft (2017-present) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden[1] and Professor II (2024-present) at the Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Norway.[2] Previous academic appointments include Professor of Visual Culture and Head of the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin (2012-2016); Deputy Director of Research and Head of Context, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (2010-2012); Associate Director of the Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art (2008-2010); Reader in Textile Culture, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England (2008). She is a member of the editorial boards of TEXTILE: the journal of cloth & culture (Taylor & Francis)[1][3] and Craft Research (Intellect).[4]
As a writer, she has published Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors (2012) and Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth (2008), and edited three books. Based on her editorial project Cultural Threads, Hemmings curated Migrations, an international traveling exhibition (2015-2017).[5][6] The Cultural Threads book inspired Dutch curator Liza Swaving's exhibition of the same name held at the TextielMuseum, Tilburg, the Netherlands (24 November – 12 May 2019).[7]
Awards
2020–2023 Rita Bolland Fellowship at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands[8]
2025–2027 Carceral Craft: the material of oppression or expression? Swedish Research Council Grant[9]
Selected lectures
Kunstmuseum and Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2025),[10]Universidad de Sevilla, Spain (2023),[11] Nordic Textile Art Network, Reykjavik, Iceland (2019),[12] Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town, South Africa (2018),[13] University of British Columbia, Canada (2017),[1] ObjectSpace, New Zealand (2016),[14] Design Canberra Festival, Australia (2015), SOFA Chicago New Voices Lecture (2012),[15] Cranbrook Academy of Art (2012)[16] INIVA, London (2009).[17]
Books
The Textile Reader (second edition), Bloomsbury (9 February 2023), ISBN9781350239845
Cultural Threads: Transnational Textiles Today, Bloomsbury Academic (15 January 2015), ISBN978-1472524997[5]
Warp and Weft: Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors, A&C Black Visual Arts (6 December 2012), ISBN978-1408134443[1]
Yvonne Vera: The Voice of Cloth, kalliope paperbacks; 1st Edition (1 January 2008), ISBN978-3981079852
Selected Articles
"Made for European Trade by Prisoners in Java: Batik Production in the Women's Prisons of Semarang and Yogyakarta in the Early Twentieth Century" (2025) The Journal of Modern Craft[19]
"Iris van Herpen: The Body" (2025) TEXTILE: cloth and culture[20]
"Iris van Herpen: Tools" (2025) TEXTILE: cloth and culture[21]
"Iris van Herpen: Collaboration" (2025) TEXTILE: cloth and culture[22]
"Makers Who Move: Solitary Exercise and the Creative Mind" (2024) PARSE[23]
"Maximum Space Around the Typewriter: Yvonne Vera and the Craft of Writing" (2021) Wasafiri[24]
"That's Not Your Story: Faith Ringgold Publishing on Cloth" (2020) PARSE[25]
"Floppy Cloth: Textile Exhibition Strategies Inside the White Cube" (2019) TEXTILE: cloth and culture[26]
Selected Book Chapters
"Toward a Minor Textile Architecture" (2024) Entangled Histories of Art and Migration (University of Chicago Press & Intellect)[27]
"Can That Be Taught? Lessons in Embodied Knowledge from Memoir Writing for Craft & Design Education" (2023) Somaesthetics and Design Culture (Brill)[28]
"Material Scent: textiles beyond touch" (2023) Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities (Routledge) [29]
"Textual Agency: pitfalls and potentials" (2020) Design and Agency (Bloomsbury) [30]
"Knitting after Making: what we do with what we make" (2019) Textiles, Community, Controversy: The Knitting Map[31]
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