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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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Sensing Place – Student Exhibition 2025
The artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham believed that her perception of nature...
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Form to Freedom - Student Exhibition 2025
“Gathered Strands” celebrates the beginnings of each student stepping into a...
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Unbound - Artist's books - Student Exhibition 2025
As I contemplated a theme for this exhibition for students of Unbound, I was...
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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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Collections and Cloth - Student Exhibition 2025
Objects have the power to evoke a wide range of feelings and memories, often...
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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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Edible Abstraction - Student Exhibition 2025
In Seasonal Abstraction, artists from around the world explore the language of...
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Out of this Earth - Student Exhibition 2025
Out of This Earth is a course devoted to the use of pigments, soya milk and...
The Art of Abstract Collage - Student Exhibition 2025
This exhibition brings together works created by students during our course on...
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Focus & Flow - Student Exhibition 2025
Hello fellow creatives! Please join us in celebrating this beautiful and...
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The Way of Wabi Sabi Collage - Student Exhibition 2025
Welcome to 'Transience', a student exhibition that celebrates the beauty of the...
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Finding - Student Exhibition 2025
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato When I...
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Sensing Place - Student Exhibition 2024
This exhibition presents works that respond to encounters with the environment...
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Poetry & Place - Student Exhibition 2025
Everything has its very own time. Every action, every thought, every feeling...
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Sensing Place - Student Exhibition 2025
I have just finished reading through your exhibition submissions and I have...
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Art & Design - Student Exhibition 2025
A-muse-ing is an exhibition celebrating the many interpretations of the word...
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Visual Narratives - Student Exhibition 2025
Rebecca Solnit writes about the process of being uncertain and ‘lost’ as an...
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Embroidered landscapes: The art of Kate Tarling
Through her textile artwork, British textile artist Kate Tarling stitches not...
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Finding Fragments - Student Exhibition 2025
I am delighted to share more amazing work from my Finding Fragments course....
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Embrace the Journey - 2024 Student Exhibition
“Awareness. The ability to look deeply is the root of creativity. To see past...
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Joyful Embroidery - Student Exhibition 2025
As we approach creativity it is not just the physical act we seek but often the...
The Art of Abstract Collage - Student Exhibition 2024
From Elements to Archetypes refers to the elements of design and the archetypal...
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Visual Narratives - Student Exhibition 2024
On the following pages you will discover a wonderful collection of mixed media...
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Form to Freedom - Student Exhibition 2024
Nurturing Revolutions, is an exhibition celebrating the transformative...
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Collections as a Catalyst - Student Exhibition 2024
Objects can represent and trigger many emotions and memories and be the...
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Sue Brown: Collagraph and Birds
Sue is a master collagrapher and artistic storyteller. She shared her love of...
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The Way of Wabi Sabi Collage - Student Exhibition 2024
Welcome to What Remains a student exhibition that celebrates the beauty of the...
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Sue Hotchkis: The Beauty of Aging and Decay
Sue is a fibre artist with a fascination for decay. During her Friday Feature...
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Creating with Courage - Student Exhibition 2024
Welcome to Where the Light Gets In, a student exhibition that celebrates the...
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Marjolein Dallinga: The Space Between Art and Craft
Marjolein is a fibre artist and in her Friday Feature Artist interview with us...
Making Connections - Student Exhibition 2024
The places we connect to represent continuity and can instil a deep sense of...
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Anne Kelly: Finding the Visual Spark
Canadian-born, UK-based Anne Kelly stitches stories. Take Two had the pleasure...
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Poetry & Place - Student Exhibition 2024
Paths that are sensed have very special, fine qualities. They listen to what is...
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Out of This Earth - Student Exhibition 2024
In writing this introduction, I was aware of the impact the climate had for...
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What is Wabi Sabi Art?
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic and way of life or a way of looking at things...
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Lindsey Gradolph: Instagram and Tarot
Lindsey, known as Lindzeanne on Instagram, talked to Take Two about her art in...
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Rosie James: Fluffy Threads and Wheelie Cases
Take Two enjoyed a wonderful chat with artist Rosie about her art, thread,...
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Jessie Mordine Young: Woven Painting
Artist Jessie Mordine calls her art ‘woven paintings’. Fibre Arts Take Two...
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Process & Possibilities - Student Exhibition 2024
Join us on a visual journey of reminiscing as you leave through the pages of...