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Juz Kitson: Learning to break rules
Angela Truscott: Oct 9 2026
“If you're in a creative rut, unsure of your direction or what you want from...
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From the archives: Seth Apter on hidden, layered magic
Angela Truscott: Oct 2 2026
“I think you're always one layer away from magic. That first layer, you might...
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Homo Faber: An Island of Light - Notes From a Monastery Full of Makers
Angela Truscott: Sep 18 2026
Inside Homo Faber's An Island of Light on Venice's San Giorgio Maggiore island,...
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Paula Kovarik: Stitching as meditation and protest
Angela Truscott: Aug 14 2026
“You have to have a sense of humour. If we didn't, what would worrying, feeling...
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Craig Underhill: What the tide gives back
Angela Truscott: Aug 7 2026
“Understand yourself first, and then you're more likely to be able to put that...
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Festival of Quilts: The quilts, the colour, and the makers who made our day
Angela Truscott: Jul 31 2026
Fresh from a day at the Festival of Quilts, we're sharing the makers, the...
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From the archives: Listening to the materials with Alice Fox
Angela Truscott: Jul 31 2026
“You've got to make your own opportunities... it's not a case of waiting for...
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From the archives: Vessels that hold light with Gizella Warburton
Angela Truscott: Jul 17 2026
“There is a real kind of difference between what something simply looks like...
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From the archives: Whispers in cloth with Jette Clover
Angela Truscott: Jul 10 2026
“Take 15 minutes for yourself. And the day starts right then," says Jette Clover
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Donna Watson: Essence of Identity
Angela Truscott: Jun 19 2026
“You can't live in somebody else's voice. You can't copy another artist and...
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Emily Stubbs: Where collage meets clay
Angela Truscott: Jun 5 2026
“You're putting forward a version of you into the world that you're literally...
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200 Free artist interviews
Angela Truscott: May 29 2026
You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin. You just need...
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Episode 200: It’s a Friday Feature Artist retrospective!
Nicola Rough: May 22 2026
“I think that the finished thing with its imperfections is actually never as...
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From the archives: Finding wonder in the everyday with Shona Wilson
Angela Truscott: May 1 2026
“Just stay with your heart and be prepared to have faith in the process," says...
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From the archives: Finding wonder in the everyday with Shona Wilson
Angela Truscott: Apr 24 2026
“I think that we should have the luxury of observing one object slowly. My aim...
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From the archives: Between life and form with Juz Kitson
Angela Truscott: Apr 17 2026
“I wanted to take a traditional material, a traditional process, and...
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Robert Lee Davis: Playing your way back to art
Angela Truscott: Apr 10 2026
“Art softens the events of the world for us, it helps us to return back to...
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The turning point in an artist’s practice
Angela Truscott: Mar 11 2026
Many artists quietly believe they must have something profound to say before...
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Behind the scenes filming Focus and Flow: Restorative Art
Angela Truscott: Mar 11 2026
“Was I nervous? Oh my, yes! But I was in capable hands. Within hours, Angela,...
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Julian Jamaal Jones: Expressive authenticity
Angela Truscott: Feb 20 2026
“Any colours can go together. What matters is placement, intention, and trust....
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Casey Engel: Evidence of the hand
Angela Truscott: Feb 6 2026
Casey chases the “magnificent wobble” that only handwork can hold. “What it...
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From the archives: Bryony Rose Jennings
Angela Truscott: Jan 13 2026
You’re just trying to help them realise who they want to become. It sounds...
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A Day in Indigo: Traditional Japanese Dyeing at AIWAYU, Gifu
Angela Truscott: Dec 31 2025
At AIWAYU, indigo isn’t a product but a living collaboration – a vat alive with...
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From the archives: Olga Radionova sculpts softness and strength
Angela Truscott: Dec 31 2025
Ukrainian artist Olga Radionova transforms wood, metal and textiles into...
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From the archives: Sandra Meech stitches landscapes
Angela Truscott: Dec 16 2025
Every time I see my feet in a photo, I’m transported back to that moment in...
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Jacki Barklie on resisting perfection
Angela Truscott: Nov 5 2025
If you don't take risks, you don’t find those exciting bits. I tear the fabric,...
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Helen Geglio and the quiet strength of cloth
Angela Truscott: Oct 28 2025
A mind map can be described as thinking made visible by pulling a threaded...
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From the archives: Layered histories with Rebecca Crowell
Angela Truscott: Oct 7 2025
You keep building these layers, and then you scrape them back. The earlier...
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From the archives: Inky impressions with Sue Brown
Angela Truscott: Sep 29 2025
Every artist must own that idea – just do it. There isn’t a right decision or a...
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From the archives: Pattern, chance, and cloth with Matthew Harris
Angela Truscott: Sep 23 2025
I don’t want to design the pieces – they come about through the process of...
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Experiencing Ann Hamilton’s 'We Will Sing' at Salts Mill
Angela Truscott: Sep 11 2025
On our recent trip to the UK, Jo Wright and I were fortunate to spend time with...
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Finding home, memory and making with Deborah White
Angela Truscott: Aug 5 2025
Through my art, I am transforming. I'm healing. I'm working on myself. It is a...
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The Beauty in Beginnings
Angela Truscott: Jul 31 2025
Ang has been thinking about the beauty of beginnings, and it reminded her of...
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Curiosity and scars with Nathan Terborg
Angela Truscott: Jul 22 2025
I think about everything I’m working on as an experiment that could absolutely...
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From the archives: Embroidering decay with Itamar Yehiel
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
People react to it emotionally, very differently. Some see decay, others see...
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From the archives: Invisible threads and visible truths with Shin-hee Chin
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
Through the process of my work, I become myself. - Shin-hee Chin
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From the archives: Why art matters with Roberta Wagner
Angela Truscott: Jul 1 2025
Does it make your heart sing? Am I happy with it? Do I love making it? That has...
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From the archives: Stitching time with Richard McVetis
Angela Truscott: Jun 25 2025
You can’t touch time, it doesn’t exist as a physical object and yet it has this...
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Process and discomfort Caroline Bartlett
Angela Truscott: May 27 2025
It’s the doing and the undoing and the redoing. There’s a repetition in that…...
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The secret life of fabric with Hannah Gartside
Angela Truscott: May 18 2025
You have to go beyond what's possible now and think about what's possible...