mirjam hemström

ABOUT

Weaver and textile designer
b. 1990, Ångermanland 

Interested in textile architecture and yarn architecture, traditional crafts and contemporary textile techniques, Mirjam Hemström undergoes Master studies at The Swedish School of Textiles. With a special interest in perception, space as a subjective experience, a physical memory and an on-going process in human mind, the focus of work often revolves around designing emotions between the real and the fictitious - mute conversations through materiality and interspace.

Hemström holds a Bachelor degree of Fine Arts in Textile Design from The Swedish School of Textiles (2016), and interned at Studio Akane Moriyama 2016-2017 along with starting Studio Supersju, a weave collective based in Stockholm. The work Woven Air, Cubic Colorized from 2016, explored three dimensional patterns and color on monofilament multi layer cloths. Hemström is currently exploring tactile-visual qualitites and aesthetics in three dimensionally woven textiles, through a combination of digital tools and the work of the hand.

Education
2017 - Master of Fine Arts, Textile Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås
2013 - 2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textile Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås
2012 - 2013 Textile Design and Craft, Nyckelviksskolan, Stockholm
2011 - 2012 Arts and Crafts, Glimåkra Folkhögskola, Glimåkra
2006 - 2009 Natural Sciences, Härnösands Gymnasium, Härnösand

Internships
Aug 2015 Studio Akane Moriyama, Stockholm
Sep - Nov 2016 Women Weave, Maheshwar, India

Work
2016 - 2017 Design assistant, Studio Akane Moriyama, Stockholm
2017 - Co-founder and member of Studio Supersju

Solo exhibitions
2015 Textile Architecture, Gustav Adolf Church, Borås

Group exhibitions
2014 Textil komposition, The Textile Museum, Borås
2015 Waste is only waste when misplaced, Galleri So Stockholm
2016 This is textile design, Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair
2016 Waste is only waste when misplaced, Moving Art Project
2016 EXIT, The Textile Museum, Borås 
2016 Textile design, New Designers Fair, London
2016 GUL, Studio L2, Stockholm 
2017 Studio Supersju, pop up exhibition, Fiber Space Gallery, Stockholm 
2017 Studio Supersju, Vävmässan, Växsjö
2018 Studio Supersju, Betapassagen, Stockholm
2018 Studio Supersju, pop up exhibition, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg
2019 Smeksamma slag, Studio Supersju, Kaleido, Uppsala
2020 Butterfingers, Studio Supersju, Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm
2020 Vävgruppen - Studio Supersju, Västernorrlands Museum, Härnösand

Selected grants and awards
2015 Helge Ax:son Johnson's Foundation
2016 Estrid Ericsson's Foundation
2016 Tekoutbildningarnas Stipendiefonder
2016 The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel grant
2016 The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Assistant grant for the work with Studio Akane Moriyama
2017 Helge Ax:son Johnson's Foundation
2018 Fredrika Bremer Association
2018 Åke Gerhard och Majken Larsson's Foundation
2018 Borås Stad, Culture grant
2018 ScotCad Textiles Ltd, Student Sponsorship
2018 Cathrine von Hauswolff's Foundation, for the collaboration with Studio Supersju
2018 Nämnden för Hemslöjdsfrågor, Development grant for Studio Supersju
2018 The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Travel grant
2020 Estrid Ericsson's Foundation
2020 Tekoutbildningarnas Stipendiefonder

Represented
Handelsbankens Konstförening
Apoteksbolagets Konstförening