Åsa Dybwad Norman (born 1984) lives and works in Arvika, Värmland. Dybwad Norman is a textile artist and a Senior Lecturer in Textile Art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.
An overarching interest in her artistic practice is how and under what conditions the knowledge of the hand and the body takes place in today's society. In several projects, she examines historical spaces or events through archival work, interviews and creative work. Throughout, she follows the movement of textile materials through different times and places in search of subversive forces. Over the years, she has repeatedly worked in various collective forms, including together with the craft artist and researcher Frida Hållander (PhD) in the ongoing research project ‘The Willful Textile Workers’. The project asks various questions about the Swedish textile industry and its impact in the world, historically and today.
Åsa Dybwad Norman's work has been shown at several institutions such as Norrköpings konstmuseum, Art Lab Gnesta, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum and Västerås Konstmuseum. She has had artistic residencies at IASPIS, the Labour Movement Archive and Library, CTH Hattfabrik and Icelandic Textile Center. Her work can be found in the collections of Folkets Hus och Parker, Region Västmanland, Västerås Konstmuseum, The Swedish Arts Council and Konstfrämjandet.
After the talk there will a workshop where we work with appliqué technique in wool and silk. We will use two simple stitches that can be used in many different ways and has been around and used since the earliest findings of textile work.
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