Miki Asai and Helen Clara Hemsley have embarked on a true leap of faith project, where they interpret fives works from each other in their own style and approach. The ten works will be a kind of visual and conceptual swap, as the motifs will appear just as in the originals, but materials and technique will be completely different. Will the narrative stay the same, shift slightly, be combined or take on new forms? This is a sensitive and trusting project, which challenges so much more than just aesthetics and how we do things, and we cannot wait to see the results!
Collaborative projects within crafts, design and contemporary art in Denmark and abroad.
TAKE 10
TAKE 10
Collaboration:
Ongoing project
Miki Asai and Helen Clara Hemsley have embarked on a true leap of faith project, where they interpret fives works from each other in their own style and approach. The ten works will be a kind of visual and conceptual swap, as the motifs will appear just as in the originals, but materials and technique will be completely different. Will the narrative stay the same, shift slightly, be combined or take on new forms? This is a sensitive and trusting project, which challenges so much more than just aesthetics and how we do things, and we cannot wait to see the results!
Collaboration:
Ongoing project
Left: Miki Asai - Still life ‘On the table’, 2025
Right: Helen Clara Hemsley - Important, 2024
Right: Helen Clara Hemsley - Important, 2024
CREATING AND CURATING
CREATING AND CURATING
Internship:
October 2025 – April 2026
Lenard Requate and Helen Clara Hemsley met in Munich in March 2025, and in October they started working together. This is not a regular intern and maker situation, and there is a lot of learning going both ways. But, in a more formal sense, the collaboration is defined by two branches – creating and curating. A vital balance of hands-on making and curating theory, where we have been piecing together a kind of curating blueprint and planning future projects together. More information to follow.
Lenard Requate and Helen Clara Hemsley met in Munich in March 2025, and in October they started working together. This is not a regular intern and maker situation, and there is a lot of learning going both ways. But, in a more formal sense, the collaboration is defined by two branches – creating and curating. A vital balance of hands-on making and curating theory, where we have been piecing together a kind of curating blueprint and planning future projects together. More information to follow.
Internship:
October 2025 – April 2026
Our first project together - 20 Somethings
Det jeg glemmer, husker du
Det jeg glemmer, husker du
Exhibition:
Ongoing project
Det jeg glemmer, husker du is a project where Mette Saabye and I use our personal experiences, family relationships, immediate surroundings and international events in our childhood/youth to make jewellery together. Jewellery that bears witness to our lives in two countries so far away from each other and the overlaps and connections between us.
Det jeg glemmer, husker du is a project where Mette Saabye and I use our personal experiences, family relationships, immediate surroundings and international events in our childhood/youth to make jewellery together. Jewellery that bears witness to our lives in two countries so far away from each other and the overlaps and connections between us.
Exhibition:
Ongoing project
TOGETHERNESS
Echoes of
a Meal
a Meal
Workshops:
Department of Jewellery Design & Manufacture, Johannesburg, 2022
Department of Jewellery Design & Manufacture, Durban, 2022
The Creative Jewellery and Metal Design Division, Stellenbosch, 2022
Mette Saabye and I held workshops at three educational institutions in South Africa in August 2022. Each participant brought along materials they felt related to the theme of Togetherness. The students worked together in groups of two or three, and participated in a variety of drawing/warming up activities before concentrating on making joint works. We employed dialogue-based teaching, in terms of materials, process and reflection. The students found a joint understanding/definition of Togetherness and decided how to move forward with the project together. Communication between the participants was respectful and inspiring (although at times a bit frustrating for some) and feedback was dynamic, liberating and constructive.
Mette Saabye and I held workshops at three educational institutions in South Africa in August 2022. Each participant brought along materials they felt related to the theme of Togetherness. The students worked together in groups of two or three, and participated in a variety of drawing/warming up activities before concentrating on making joint works. We employed dialogue-based teaching, in terms of materials, process and reflection. The students found a joint understanding/definition of Togetherness and decided how to move forward with the project together. Communication between the participants was respectful and inspiring (although at times a bit frustrating for some) and feedback was dynamic, liberating and constructive.
Workshops:
Department of Jewellery Design & Manufacture, Johannesburg, 2022
Department of Jewellery Design & Manufacture, Durban, 2022
The Creative Jewellery and Metal Design Division, Stellenbosch, 2022
ECHOES OF A MEAL
Echoes of
a Meal
a Meal
Exhibited and film:
Goldfingers, 2021
The concept of a meal and how it has the ability to echo life around us forms the common foundation for the group’s reflections, and especially focuses on how a meal can bring people together and bolster their sense of community.
Making jewellery and preparing a meal both share an intense use of the senses, as both jewellery and a meal are made and used by the body. What remains after the meal is the memory of the act. With jewellery, the memory is stored and decoded by the senses, forming a connection between time and place.
A meal is prepared as a generous gift and sensory experience, to be enjoyed in comfortable togetherness, with room for close interaction and the exchanging of views across cultures.
Watch the Echoes of a Meal film here.
A special thanks to Rachel Darbourne & Jivan Astfalck - part of the Polyphonous Event.
A special thanks to Rachel Darbourne & Jivan Astfalck - part of the Polyphonous Event.
The concept of a meal and how it has the ability to echo life around us forms the common foundation for the group’s reflections, and especially focuses on how a meal can bring people together and bolster their sense of community.
Making jewellery and preparing a meal both share an intense use of the senses, as both jewellery and a meal are made and used by the body. What remains after the meal is the memory of the act. With jewellery, the memory is stored and decoded by the senses, forming a connection between time and place.
A meal is prepared as a generous gift and sensory experience, to be enjoyed in comfortable togetherness, with room for close interaction and the exchanging of views across cultures.
Watch the Echoes of a Meal film here.
A special thanks to Rachel Darbourne & Jivan Astfalck - part of the Polyphonous Event.
A special thanks to Rachel Darbourne & Jivan Astfalck - part of the Polyphonous Event.
Exhibited and film:
Goldfingers, 2021
HEMSLEY/dyhr
HEMSLEY/
dyhr
dyhr
Exhibited:
Art Weekend Aarhus,
2019
2019
Aarhus based visual artist, Anne Dyhr and I went to art school together (1995-1998) but only started working together in 2018. HEMSLEY/DYHR investigate among other things domestic rituals, maternal relationships and memories through handicraft, photography and installation.
Putting in place / Hjemme igen unfolded in three shop windows and a private kitchen window, which houses the exhibition space Hjemme igen (Home again). The three shops are run by women from Denmark, Iran and Vietnam. All four spaces refer to the lives of women over time. HEMSLEY/DYHR investigates these female references through handicraft and memories.
Aarhus based visual artist, Anne Dyhr and I went to art school together (1995-1998) but only started working together in 2018. HEMSLEY/DYHR investigate among other things domestic rituals, maternal relationships and memories through handicraft, photography and installation.
Putting in place / Hjemme igen unfolded in three shop windows and a private kitchen window, which houses the exhibition space Hjemme igen (Home again). The three shops are run by women from Denmark, Iran and Vietnam. All four spaces refer to the lives of women over time. HEMSLEY/DYHR investigates these female references through handicraft and memories.
Exhibited:
Art Weekend Aarhus,
2019
2019
HH
HH
Exhibited:
Glasgow Project Room, 2016
Visual artist, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir and I started working together in 2001. We have since exhibited in Copenhagen (2002) and Glasgow (2001, 2002, 2016). It is a true meeting of practices, a collage of our working methods and processes, where we patchwork a form of expression together and create works in true collaboration.
With You Without You, an installation-based exhibition exploring scale and the notion of wearability. Sculpture as jewellery. Jewellery as sculpture. Objects placed in a room, but to be imagined on the body. A collage of fine art principles, the use of space, traditional craft techniques and the idea of adornment.
Visual artist, Hrafnhildur Halldórsdóttir and I started working together in 2001. We have since exhibited in Copenhagen (2002) and Glasgow (2001, 2002, 2016). It is a true meeting of practices, a collage of our working methods and processes, where we patchwork a form of expression together and create works in true collaboration.
With You Without You, an installation-based exhibition exploring scale and the notion of wearability. Sculpture as jewellery. Jewellery as sculpture. Objects placed in a room, but to be imagined on the body. A collage of fine art principles, the use of space, traditional craft techniques and the idea of adornment.
Exhibited:
Glasgow Project Room, 2016
