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by Take Two

Articles, artist interviews, and student stories - offering insight into creative practice, process, and possibility.

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Transience

These collages explore the quiet beauty found in impermanence and change....

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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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Findings

Responding to place through sight, sound, and touch, 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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Realigned

These works explore how ideas can shift through editing, reassembly, and new...

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Eleanor Burkett Vessel 02 - Friday Feature Artist

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Ellie Burkett: A passion for paper

British-born artist Ellie Burkett travelled to Japan to explore her fascination...

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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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Order, Disorder, Reorder

Through experimentation, uncertainty, and careful reworking, these artists move...

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Capturing Moments

Exploring the space between photography and mixed media, these works capture...

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Seasons.

Through stitched painting and mixed media embroidery, these works explore the...

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From Elements to Archetypes

Exploring the elements of design and the archetypal structures of composition,...

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In Retrospect

These works reflect thoughtful visual enquiry into memory, meaning, and...

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Ann Mechelink artwork

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Community Spotlight - Ann Mechelink

We're shining the spotlight on Take Two community member and textile artist Ann...

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Nurturing Revolutions

Through sculptural weaving and basketry, these works explore nurture as both...

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Collating Past, Present

Inspired by personal objects and the stories they hold, these works explore...

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Sue Brown - Friday Feature Artist Interview with Take Two

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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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What Remains

Inspired by the quiet beauty of imperfection and impermanence, these collages...

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Artwork by Sue Hotchkis

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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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Where the Light gets in

Inspired by the beauty found in imperfection, these works celebrate...

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Linda Harvey: teacher and artist

As both a teacher and an artist, to have a balance between the two Linda...

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Artwork by Marjolein Dallinga

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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...

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Seen Unseen Worlds

Rooted in personal connection to place, these works explore the visible and the...

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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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Judith E. Martin artwork - Friday Feature Artist Interview with Take Two

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Judith E. Martin: the aesthetics of care

Over a long and successful career in quilting, Judith E. Martin has gathered...

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Sensing Paths

Rooted in attentive sensing and quiet reflection, these works explore the...

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Earth Materials

Working with earth pigments, soya milk, and cloth, these pieces reflect...

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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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Reminiscence

Inspired by precious moments and personal memories, these collages translate...

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Untamed

Inspired by the wild beauty of the natural world, these embroidered works...

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Stopping in the Now

Exploring the meeting point of photography, fibre, paper, and mixed media,...

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Joining the Dots

Through gel plate printing and thoughtful enquiry, these works explore how...

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Make, Unmake, Remake

Through repeated cycles of making, unmaking, and thoughtful reconstruction,...

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Ann Weber: from pottery to cardboard

Ann's career has transformed from functional pottery to large cardboard...

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Jason Horejs: the art of business and the business of art

Dreaming of a gallery show? Here’s an in-depth interview with Xanadu Gallery...

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