Mina Huimin Hu

Multidisciplinary artist.

Mina is a London-based, textile-led multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the relationships between materiality, memory and cultural identity. Working across hand-built textile structures, objects and sculpture, she approaches making as a way of attending to the associations carried by everyday materials.

Her research follows materials as they move between domestic, industrial and cultural contexts. Reclaimed fibres, paper yarn, seeds and food-derived forms become a vocabulary through which she considers repetition, belonging and the place of the individual within larger systems. Irregular tension, open connections and traces of the hand remain visible, allowing the conditions of making to become part of the work.

Her education brings together an MA in Textile Design at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, and a French and Chinese dual-diploma background in Product Design at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique and Fashion Design at Soochow University. This cross-disciplinary foundation informs a practice that moves between material enquiry, sculptural experimentation and the intimate relationships people form with objects.