Research Output per year
Personal profile
Phd Researcher Profile
Designing the Anthropocene: ceramics as an archaeology of the contemporary past.
Biography
Emily Hesse is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Middlesbrough in North-East England who draws materials from her surrounding landscapes to tell stories of place, social history and the passing of time, unpacking complex narratives that define working class communities.
Hesse produced Blackbirds Born from Invisible Stars in 2018, a bookwork she describes as a “sculptural object” and separate from its content which is a semi-autobiographical, prose-based view of what “strategic regionalism means to an artist of [her] background, age and position.”
Her 2018 solo exhibition The Taste of This History: A Church in my Mouth (Workplace Gallery, Gateshead) addressed the barriers Hesse faces as a female, working class, middle aged artist. For example, The Centre of Things 2018played on craft traditions associated with the feminine, featuring a needle hanging on thread woven from local moorland wool and the hair of Hesse and her daughters.
Hesse’s most recent work Kissing the Bees (2019) is 17-minute film installation shot on a mobile phone, bringing together research into witchcraft of the North York Moors as an early form of matriarchal social organising.
Education/Academic qualification
Unknown, Master, University of Sunderland
Award Date: 21 Oct 2015
Keywords
- N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
- ceramics
- clay
- sculpture
- contemporary art
- communities
- social practice
- cultural institutions
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Network
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Research Output
Autonomy - Group Exhibition: Drop Politics and Erotics - Installation and Performance
Hesse, E., 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
The Everyday Political - Group Exhibition: Blackbirds Born from Invisible Stars
Hesse, E., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
The Idea Home Show - Group Exhibition: Reclaim the Wilderness (2017)
Hesse, E., 2018Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
Prizes
Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Arts - Runner up
Hesse, Emily (Recipient), 26 Jan 2020
Prize: Other distinction
Works acquired by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
Hesse, Emily (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
Runs Like a Rumour and a Legend: John Berger's Miners 30 Years On.
Emily Hesse (Organiser)
19 Jul 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Reorganising Cultural Institutions
Emily Hesse (Invited speaker)
2019 → …
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Experimental Research in Spaces - Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
Emily Hesse (Speaker)
2019
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Plus Tate Seminar -Working with Local Artists and the Ethics of Organisations
Emily Hesse (Invited speaker)
2017
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Substance, Significance and Subsidence: the Institution Without Borders
Emily Hesse (Invited speaker)
2017
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press / Media
Book Chapter 'Making Cities in:Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces
21/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
We Are Middlesbrough: From a town of industry to a city of culture?
24/05/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Emily Hesse: The Taste of this History: A Church in my Mouth
14/01/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
The Year in Protest: From the Met to Chapel Hill to Kochi and Beyond
21/12/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities