Frida Hållander

 

(b. 1981)

A craft artist, born and lives half time in Sjuhäradsbygden. Her doctoral thesis Whose Hand is Making? (2019) includes a case study which address the thematic of textile and the collective story of her relatives that have worked in sewing factories and home-based industry from the beginning of the 20th century. The work has also resulted in Öxabäck IF – Without you no tomorrow (2016) together with textile artist Åsa Norman. An ongoing project (2019-2020), also with Norman, is about rewriting the play Fabriksflickorna (Factory girls) by Suzanne Osten and Margareta Garpe (1980). The play depict the textile crisis in Sweden (1950–1980) and the seamstress’s collective: those who opposed.