Born 1996, Plymouth, UK
Raised in NL
Currently living on the Isle of Mull, Scotland

Jemima is an artist and educator of ancestral skills, based across the islands of Scotland's Inner and Outer Hebrides.

Within her art practice she enters Scotland’s remotest landscapes to study the ethnobotanical uses of the natural materials present. She explores natural building techniques through experimental and experiential architecture. With her interests in ethnobotany and natural building techniques of the Scottish Isles, she finds herself interacting with heather, stone, turf, clay, animal skins and most notably, seaweeds.

She is currently working with seaweeds because of their changing textures and their incandescent and translucent qualities. Jemima's work exists through sculpture, visual poetry and performative art. Drawing and writing equally play an important role in her art practice.

In developing her art practice Jemima has undertaken several self-funded expeditions to Scotland’s remote landscapes. In March 2023 Jemima returned from the uninhabited Shiant Isles where she had spent thirty-three days of winter in solitude. In March 2022, the year prior, Jemima spent twenty-six days in solitude on the remote island of Gometra. Jemima has spent extended periods of time on the Isle of Lewis and Harris, the remote island of Mingulay, the Isle of Skye, and is currently based in a remote part of the Isle of Mull. It is in a depth of presence with the natural landscapes and seascapes, that she experiences their natural materials through all of their differing forms, studying their colours, textures and strengths through all of her senses. By living within these landscapes she learns about ourselves as humans, about tradition, ingenuity and survival.

In her foraging workshops Jemima educates people of all ages on local plants, wild foods and elements of bushcraft. Jemima has been running these walks in Glasgow for four years in each of the seasons, and has now run over 100 workshops.

Please get in contact if you would like to know more about Jemima and her art practice, or if you are interested in any workshops or collaborative work.

Education

CV
2020 -  [now]  Providing educational seasonal foraging workshops [self-employed]

Talks / Workshops
2024
Foraging workshops - Sea Change festival, Screen Argyll, Tiree, UK

2023
Artist talk, workshop and visiting tutor - Fine Art, Oxford Brookes University, UK 

Awards
2017 
The Batsford Prize: Fine Art and Applied Art Category: Entry of my sculptural installation, ‘Temporality’ under the theme ‘Interpreting nature’, UK
The Cass Art Bursary: Entry of my sculptural installation, ‘Temporality’, UK

Exhibitions / Screenings / Residencies
2025
Solo Exhibition at An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull, UK: Exhibiting work made on the Shiant Islands, Gometra and the Isle of Mull
A two month exhibition of film, analogue photography, drawings, writing, installation and sculpture

2024
Screening Seaweed Shelter/Fasgadh Feamad - Sea Change Film Festival, Screen Argyll, Tiree, UK

Group Exhibition - Creative by Nature, Foundry Films - The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, UK
Screening two films: Seaweed Shelter/Fasgadh Feamad, and Seaweed Shelter no.2

Solo Exhibition at Grinneabhat Arts, North Bragar: Exhibiting work made on Jemima's solo Shiant Islands Expedition, Winter 2023, UK
A two month exhibition of film, photography, drawings, writing and sculpture

2023
Self-funded research expedition, the Shiant Islands, February-March: 33 days of solitude researching the uses of seaweeds in experimental building, UK

2022
Self-funded research expedition, Gometra, March: 26 days of solitude, 16 days in a cave, researching the uses of seaweeds in experimental building, UK

Short film by Enrique Tarazona: 3.54 minute short film on Jemima Hall's art practice by film maker Enrique Tarazona: Click here to watch., UK

VACMA award: Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, Scotland, UK

2020
Knockvologan Studies artist in resident, Isle of Mull: Leading a conversation and workshop for 20 locals on 15th Nov, UK

She Performs: The Body : exhibiting 'Womb Exploring', Oxford, UK

2019
MUD Exhibition at Fringe Arts Bath with Emma Stevens: Two weeks of live art, sculpting and painting with mud in the Walcot Chapel, Bath, UK

2018
Fine Art Degree Show, 'Hoi Polloi', Oxford Brookes University: Exhibiting 'Roots', a photographic, performative and sculptural installation, Oxford, UK

Docwerk short documentary December 2018: by Docwerk film maker Linnet Deen, shown on the national Dutch TV channel NPRO2Extra on 18.12.18
Screened at Docwerk Filmzappen 23.01.19 and DOCfeed 23.02.19, NL

2017
Fine Art Second Year Show, ‘Situate’, Oxford Brookes University: Exhibiting fourteen sculptures of my piece ‘Temporality’, Oxford, UK

‘Hatched’, International Women’s Day, North Wall Gallery, Oxford: Collaborative live performance with Magali Esberg, ‘It (’s a girl)’, Oxford, UK

2016
CARU 3rd Anniversary Event, OVADA gallery, Oxford: Collaborative live performance with Peta Lloyd of ‘This Side Up’, Oxford, UK