“Maker’s Grip Glass Cast”, photograph by Gregor Petrikovič
Artist StatementLinnea Vemes is an artist, maker, and researcher whose practice brings together computation, digital fabrication, and craft-based material processes. Coming from a background in management and product design, Linnea Vemes developed an interest in how artists learn through experimentation, material engagement, and interdisciplinary practice. Her practice explores how experiential learning and hands-on making can support artists and makers in engaging with computation and digital fabrication without losing the value of experimentation, failure, and embodied creativity. Through her work, Linnea Vemes reflects on how art schools can embrace emerging technologies while maintaining human presence, material sensitivity, and creative risk-taking.

During her studies at the Royal College of Art, Linnea Vemes began working with creative coding and physical computing, which have since become essential to her making. Alongside digital processes, she work across glass casting, photo etching, and weaving, transforming digital making into physical artefacts. The ability to move fluidly between workshops and disciplines has enabled the artist to develop a more interdisciplinary and materially driven practice. Her ongoing research considers the future of creative education and interdisciplinary making, with a particular focus on computation, digital fabrication, and craft-based approaches.



Linnea Vemes portrait by Gregor Petrikovič
Artist BiographyLinnea Vemes is an artist, maker, and researcher with a background in management and product design. After completing her first master’s degree, Linnea Vemes started working as a conceptual artist , an which led her to think more critically about creative education and making pedagogies. She became increasingly interested in how artists learn through experimentation, material engagement, and interdisciplinary practice. 

Returning to art school provided an ideal environment to develop this research further, and the Royal College of Art offered a unique space where critical inquiry and making could coexist across disciplines. The artist’s experience of studying and working across the UK and Germany has informed her perspective on the increasing emphasis on digitalisation and technological integration within creative education. At the Royal College of Art, Linnea Vemes developed her practice across computation, digital fabrication, and craft-based material processes, working with creative coding and physical computing alongside glass casting, photo etching, weaving, and other hands-on techniques. The workshops and expertise of technicians have been integral to the development of their interdisciplinary and materially driven practice. 


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