Pictured are a few spreads from Sonja Zornat’s (@sonjazornat ) interview in fiber!
Sonja B Zornat (b. 1997, Gothenburg) earned her Bachelor’s degree in Textile Art from HDK-Valand in 2024. Prior to that, she studied Painting for two years at Dômen Art School and one year of Form and Design at Steneby School. She currently works from her studio based in Falun. In her artistic practice, she explores sequences of events, time, and material, where everyday life plays a central role. She is particularly interested in what happens within the home when the door is closed and no one is watching. She expresses this by creating spatial installations where printmaking, tapestry, and embroidery engage in dialogue with everyday objects and materials.
A recurring character in her work is the bed—both as a motif and as a material—serving as a potent symbol of life itself. She holds secondhand materials in the highest regard, as they carry traces of the body, time, and lived experience.
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Next up is Sam Druant’s (@samdruant ) interview in fiber!
Based between Antwerp and Gothenburg, Sam Druant works across different media, spanning textile, aquarelle drawings, text, and oil paintings. She holds a BA and MA in Textile Design from LUCA School of Arts in Ghent (BE), and an MFA in Fine Arts from HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg (SE). Sam Druant’s work is grounded in research and a methodology of gathering. During this process, she engages with a constellation of sources in her surroundings, including images, texts, theories, and conversations, as she internalizes, interprets, and reshapes these materials within her practice.
Drawing on alternative feminine mythologies and feminist thought, Druant’s work explores desire, monstrous bodies, care for the (female) body, and the intricacies of human existence. Through a playful and ironic visual language, she disrupts dominant Western viewpoints by introducing counter-narratives and social critique. Her practice frequently involves activating installations through gatherings, creating a common space to exchange experiences, foster connections, and envision alternative futures.
Text by Isa Van den Wouwer
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Naomi Sussex’s (@naomi.sussex ) interview in fiber! is not to be missed! Pictured are a few spreads from her interview. ✨
Naomi Sussex, is a textile artist and designer based in Scotland. Her work investigates the act of weaving and the interlacing of threads as a tool to explore cross-disciplinary connections through craft. She is drawn to repetitive processes that speak to both the body and the mind; exploring a desire for calm amongst the chaos and the meeting between the two.
Naomi holds a BA in textile design from The Glasgow School of Art and a MFA in textile art from HDK-Valand.
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Here are some spreads from Josefin Tingvall’s (@josefintingvall ) interview in fiber! 🌲
Josefin Tingvall is a textile artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work moves across techniques like weaving, embroidery, experimental dyeing, and visual coding. At the core of her practice is a curiosity about transformation, how things shift, break down, connect, and rebuild. She is drawn to the fragile, in-between states, and how we as humans relate to a world that’s more than just us. The landscape is a recurring thread in her work, not as a static place, but as something imagined and changing, shaped by presence, memory, and time. She views craft not just as a technique, but as a way of thinking and exploring. It allows her to approach materials as active agents and to reflect on how we live and interact within a constantly evolving environment.
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A few spreads from Esse McChesney’s (@ess.mcc ) interview in fiber! 🌼
Esse McChesney (b. 1998, Falun, Sweden) is a textile artist based in Gothenburg since 2018, relocating to London in the fall of 2025. Their practice explores their queer, trans identity through a posthumanist lens. They work mainly with tapestry and embroidery, layering emotions and aspects of self, drawn from experience. Central to their work is entangling dualities such as longing/worry, natural/unnatural, and reality/fantasy. Dualities are further expressed through complementary colours and the raw, untucked threads of weaves’ backsides, evoking the image of it “crying yarn”. These contrasts are often centred around gender-affirming mastectomy scars, serving as symbols of resilience and hope.
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Peep a few of the spreads from Cornelia Öberg’s (@corneliaoberg_ ) interview in fiber!
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Cornelia Öberg (b. 1993) is a Swedish artist based in Gothenburg. She works with traditional and slow craft techniques such as manual hand-tufting, embroidery and tapestry weaving. At the core of her artistic practice lies a desire to tell stories, a world filled with symbolism mirroring nature and its animals. She draws a lot of inspiration from old folklore, mythology, fairytales, and the natural landscape she grew up around in the west of Sweden. Öberg is currently studying an MFA in Craft at HDK-Valand and she has exhibited her work at galleries such as Konstnärshuset, Konstepidemin, Galleri Axel, and Galleri Thomassen. Her art is represented in both private and public collections.
A few scans of spreads from Anna Amalie Richelsen’s (@aarichelsen ) interview in fiber!
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Anna Amalie Richelsen is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a specialization in Textile Art from HDK-Valand, Gothenburg.
Her practice centers on needlework techniques such as sewing and felting, often in dialogue with her own photography. Working with bed linen and tablecloths—materials intimately tied to the body and the home—Richelsen uses textiles as vessels of memory. The histories embedded in these materials become a way for her to explore her own memories, thoughts, and emotions. Drawing on mythology and religious symbolism, her work carries storytelling that bridges ancient narratives with modern life. Rather than offering definitive answers, her pieces embrace uncertainty and the journey itself, revealing how the act of seeking can open up new perspectives.
If you didn’t have the chance to visit the exhibition and buy a book then fear not ❣️ There are still copies left! While the webshop is under construction you can pay via swish (200 kr if in Sweden), otherwise you can slide into my dm’s and we can figure something out! 📚
Thank you to everyone who came out last night, to the artists, to Oscar & the NSFW team ❤️❤️
The show will be up for a week so there’s still time to see the exhibition & grab a copy of the book! You don’t want to miss it 💋
⭐️ THIS WEEK ⭐️
fiber! book launch & exhibition @ NSFW
Friday, November 14 from 17 to 20.
Head over to @nsfwww_ for more information ❣️
fiber! is a publication dedicated to surveying the contemporary textile art scene in Gothenburg, Sweden. Featuring seven interviews with seven artists, it explores the possibilities, experimentation, and diverse approaches within the field. The publication release and exhibition, hosted by NSFW, will offer an opportunity for the artists and their works to be presented together in a physical space. The artists exhibiting their works are Anna Amalie Richelsen, Cornelia Öberg, Josefin Tingvall, Naomi Sussex, Sam Druant, and Sonja Zornat. With all participating artists having ties to the city, both the publication and the event provide a glimpse into Gothenburg’s vibrant and varied textile art scene.
So thrilled to share this project that has been nearly a year in the making! A massive thank you to the artists involved for trusting me with your words and inviting me into your practice! And thank you to Mirai Nemoto Nilsson for being an amazing assistant editor ✨
‘fiber!’ is a publication dedicated to surveying the contemporary textile art scene in Gothenburg, Sweden. Featuring seven interviews with seven artists, the possibilities, experimentation, and various approaches within the field are further explored.
Issue 1 includes interviews with Anna Amelie Richelsen, Cornelia Öberg, Esse McChesney, Josefin Tingvall, Naomi Sussex, Sam Druant and Sonja Zornat.
Since the website for double gemini 93 is currently under construction, you can purchase a copy by sending a dm or you can come to the book launch party & exhibition at NSFW! Details coming soon <3
