Hilda Hellstrom

About

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.

Education

Royal College of Art, London (MFA) 2010–2012

Beckmans Designhögskola, Stockholm (BFA) 2007-2010

Gerlesborgs Konstskola, Stockholm (Fine Art Diploma) 2005–2007

Source: http://hildahellstrom.se