Hilda Hellström, a Swedish sculptor and designer, experiments with Jesmonite (a gypsum-based
material in an acrylic resin), but is interested in shifting back to clay, an endeavor she will
pursue during her residency at The Clay Studio.
Bio
Hilda Hellström (born 1984) graduated from her MFA at the Royal College of Art in London in 2012.
Her work has, among other institutions, been exhibited at London Design Museum, MUDAC Lausanne, V&A,
The British Craft Council, Gothenburg Museum of Art, MAK Vienna and Shanghai Power Station Art Museum.
Her work revolves around investigations in the subjective understandings of our reality. The understanding
we receive through our senses rather than our rationale. Working with materials that, for the observer,
often are unfamiliar, she plays with the undefinable in regards to materials, hierarchies, value
systems and definitions. This has involved studies about imitation in relation to authenticity and
different ways to interpret what we classify as 'natural'. More specifically she has been working
with geology and the formation of rock. This incredible rigidity that nevertheless is in constant motion.
On a practical level one could say that she studies the ways of nature as if its processes belonged
to those of a craftsman. Analogous to an apprentice she then recreates those movements of nature,
appropriated into processes that are specific to her practice. To emphasize the sensuous part of an
object she has at times worked with the medium of film in relation to objects, in an attempt to
captivate the audience in another world for a while. Hellström currently lives and works in Stockholm,
Sweden.
» Hilda's website
