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Emily Hesse

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Emily Hesse
Born(1980-04-27)April 27, 1980
DiedNovember 4, 2022(2022-11-04)(aged 42)
EducationDurham University,Sunderland University
SpouseDr Martyn Hudson
Websitehttps:// emilyhesse

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

Projects and exhibitions

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In 2012, as part of the Saltburn Arts Fair inSaltburn-by-the-Sea,Hesse exhibited her works,I Will Never Forget You. Not For All Of My DaysandWe 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 fromMiddlesbrough Institute of Modern Artsought 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 ofDr Christopher Dresserat the Linthorpe Art Pottery.[3]During this work, Hesse studied for an MA Ceramics atSunderland University,to develop her skills as aceramicistin 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 theGreat Exhibition of the Northin early 2018. When the exhibition organisers announced the sponsorship fromBAE SystemsHesse 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 atSouthwark ParkGalleries in London.[7]Later that year, Workplace Gallery inGatesheadhosted 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 ofThe TetleyJerwoodCommissioning Programme, Hesse createdThe Witches’ Institution (W.I.),an exhibition imagined and developed with Professor Andrea Philips,BalticProfessor and Director BxNU Research Institute,Northumbria University.[10][11][12]

Publications

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  • Black Birds Born from Invisible Stars(2018)[6]

Awards

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References

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  1. ^"Artist in Residence".The Saltburn School.Retrieved26 February2020.
  2. ^"Class One Project".The Saltburn School.Retrieved26 February2020.
  3. ^"Localism, an exhibition about history, visual culture, politics and making in Middlesbrough - Announcements - Art & Education".artandeducation.net.Retrieved26 February2020.
  4. ^Selvin, Claire (21 December 2018)."The Year in Protest: From the Met to Chapel Hill to Kochi and Beyond".ARTnews.Retrieved26 February2020.
  5. ^"BAE Systems withdraws sponsorship of Great Exhibition of the North, minister calls artists' campaign" a disgrace "- a-n The Artists Information Company".Retrieved26 February2020.
  6. ^abHesse, Emily, 1980- (2018).Black birds born from invisible stars.[England].ISBN978-1-9164257-0-5.OCLC1085198464.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^"Southwark Park Galleries | The gallery by the pool | The Everyday Political".Southwark Park Galleries.1 June 2018.Retrieved26 February2020.
  8. ^ab"Arts Foundation | Hesse, Emily".Retrieved26 February2020.
  9. ^dandelion-burdock, dandelion & burdock (14 January 2019)."Emily Hesse: The Taste of this History: A Church in my Mouth".thisistomorrow.Retrieved26 February2020.
  10. ^"Emily Hesse: The Witches' Institution (W.I.)".The Tetley.Retrieved5 November2022.
  11. ^"Emily Hesse: The Witches' Institution (W.I.)".Corridor8.Retrieved5 November2022.
  12. ^"Emily Hesse at The Tetley".artforum.22 August 2022.Retrieved5 November2022.
  13. ^"Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award Nomination".The Saltburn School.25 April 2013.Retrieved26 February2020.
  14. ^"Henry Moore Foundation awards £60,000 in rapid-response to artists across the UK amid the Covid-19 pandemic".Henry Moore Foundation.Archived fromthe originalon 11 February 2021.Retrieved2 February2021.