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Community Spotlight: Bridget Macklin
"I see part of my role as an artist as raising awareness and creating space for...
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Student Success Story: Annegret Fauser
"I realised I was using the wrong medium. Once I shifted to paper, I could do...
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Student Success Story: Donna Towers
"I went from trying to figure it out… to being able to say, comfortably, I’m an...
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Student Success Story: Carla Vermeend
"I’m not only a photographer anymore - I’m also a mixed media artist.” explains...
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In the Rhythm of Becoming
An exhibition journey where landscape and language meet, where lived experience...
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Community Spotlight: Mardi Busby
"Looking back, I don’t remember a time when I didn’t want to create – to draw,...
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The Soft Ontology of Things
This collection brings together fibre sculptures that consider the quiet...
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Student Success Story: Tanja Gawin
"I'm onto my seventh course, and everyone feels like unwrapping a Christmas...
Letters are my friends - Denise Lach
In this Take Two short documentary, Denise reflects on the years of practice...
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Student Success Story: Liz May
“I’ve now got that confidence to go out as an artist and show my work where I’m...
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Beyond Technique – Tier Two
Tier Two offered participants focused small group mentorship. These works...
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Student Success Story: Lucy Dundon
"The biggest change was learning to think like an artist - not just a maker,"...
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Student Success Story: Melinda West
"If my art nourishes me, it will likely nourish others," says Melinda West.
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Transformation
Drawing on layered techniques and personal reflection, these works explore the...
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Student Success Story: Karen Harmon
"I let go of that idea that I have to be something specific to be considered an...
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Student success story: Tammy Murdock
"I needed something new but I didn't know that embroidery was what I needed. So...
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Student Success Story: Susanne Lange
“Even though I’m still at the beginning, I feel this type of creative design...
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From the archives: Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn respond to land in textile
We're on the planet only once – we might as well get a feel for the place. –...
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Outer Sensing, Inner Seeing
These works emerge from close sensory observation of place shaped by a joyful...
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Gathered Strands
This exhibition celebrates the beginnings of each student stepping into a...
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The Canary & the Parrot - Nicky Ilsley’s solo exhibition
For textile and mixed media artist Nicky Ilsley, the past three years have been...
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Moving Memories
Inspired by meaningful objects and the memories they hold, these works reflect...
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Community Spotlight: K.C. Chilton
We’re back with a Community Spotlight and this month it’s shining on artist and...
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Seasonal Abstraction
Inspired by seasonal ingredients and sensory experience, these abstract works...
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From Marks to Meaning
Beginning with the simplest elements of dot, line, and mark, these abstract...
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How to choose the right art course for you
When deciding to enrol in an online art course, there some steps we recommend...
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Community Spotlight: Marielle Peters
At Take Two, we’re constantly inspired by the dedication and depth our students...
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Holding Stories
Inspired by the stories held in trees and landscapes, these works explore how...
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Meet the winners of Time Well Spent
Our Time Well Spent exhibition and art prize celebrates five wonderful years of...
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Begin at your Beginning
Beginning with a self-chosen material, technique, or idea, these works reflect...
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Layered Fragments of Time
Exploring time as both companion and catalyst, these works reflect a layered,...
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Connections.
Through attentive sensing and thoughtful stitching, these works explore the...
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A-muse-ing - Student Art Exhibition
Exploring the many meanings of a muse, these works reflect thoughtful...
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Ellie Burkett: A passion for paper
British-born artist Ellie Burkett travelled to Japan to explore her fascination...