About
Åsa Dybwad Norman, 
Textile artist and educator, lives and works in Arvika, Värmland. 
*b 1984
Contact
asanorman@gmail.com 
@asamajnorman
+46704852961

 
PhotoHelena Scragg

The general themes of Dybwad Norman’s artistic practice revolve around how and under what conditions practical knowledge takes its place in contemporary society. She works with commissions, exhibitions, workshops and text. In Åsa’s  projects her primary media are textile techniques such as embroidery and appliqué, but the final results are often multi-material installations. Even though her practice applies a conceptual perspective on textile materials and methods, she also treats these as carriers of a long political and cultural history of physical experiences and relationships. In search of subversive currents, Åsa follow the temporal movement of the textile materials.
Over the years she has often returned to collective practices, for example through the arts and crafts collective Den Nya Kvinnogruppen (The New Women’s Group). Since 2015 she runs the research project De viljefulla textilarbetarna (The willful textile workers) with craft artist and researcher Frida Hållander, Ph.D. The project has taken on different forms over the years, as in an international conference during Stockholm Craft Week in 2020, and an exhibition at Mint at the ABF house in Stockholm. The project explores issues surrounding the Swedish textile industry and its global effects, both historically and in our own time. Most recent result of their collaboration is the curation of the exhibition När rötter bränns (When roots burn) at the Swedish Museum of Textiles, in Borås. 

Åsa’s work have been shown in several institutions such as Norrköpings konstmuseum, Art Lab Gnesta, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum and Västerås Konstmuseum. She has been an artist in residence at IASPIS, Art Lab Gnesta, Arbetarrörelsens Arkiv och Bibliotek, CTH Hattfabrik and Icelandic Textile Center. Her works are in the collections of Folkets Hus och Parker, Region Västmanland, Västerås Art Museum, Public Art Agency Sweden, Konstfrämjandet, City of Umeå and private collections. 

Since January 2023 Åsa holds a position as Senior Lecturer in Textile Art at HDK-Valand in Gothenburg, where she teaches at the MA-program in Craft.






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