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Carlie Trosclair casts time and place
Nicola Rough: Oct 21 2025
My job is to foster wonder and curiosity in my own life – and if I can walk...
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Seasonal Abstraction
Inspired by seasonal ingredients and sensory experience, these abstract works...
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Tina Marais is starting a Soft Revolution
Deborah White: Oct 14 2025
You don’t need to use the materials I’m using – the invitation is to find what...
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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 Marks to Meaning
Beginning with the simplest elements of dot, line, and mark, these abstract...
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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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From the archives: Layers of observation with Tansy Hargan
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Tara Axford: Sep 16 2025
If you give yourself a task, then you will start thinking about things in a...
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From scraps to sculpture with Phong Chi Lai
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Jo Wright: Sep 9 2025
You might think there was confidence, but I'm pretty sure during every doll...
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Symbolic stitching with Tessa Perlow and Fleur Woods
Jo Wright: Sep 3 2025
I want people to feel inspired – that sense of wonder you get when you see...
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Kelp, colour and wild fibre with Lydia Miller
Nicola Rough: Aug 26 2025
I pretty much just offer the technology – the skills to hold the materials...
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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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The humanity in handwriting with Rosalind Wyatt
Jo Wright: Aug 19 2025
Handwriting is the most direct evidence we have of a person after their voice –...
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Abstraction, Intuition, and Reinvention in Art with Monica Rezman
Tara Axford: Aug 12 2025
I have to be in that studio all by myself. I have to entertain myself. I have...
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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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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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Unbound creativity with Toni Hartill
Tara Axford: Jul 22 2025
You don't have to have a whole concept or solid idea as a starting point… Just...
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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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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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Begin at your Beginning
Beginning with a self-chosen material, technique, or idea, these works reflect...
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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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Quilted truths with Beverly Y. Smith
Jo Wright: Jun 17 2025
My grandmother taught me that the smallest piece of fabric can hold generations...
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Painting flavour with Nicola Bennett
Tara Axford: Jun 11 2025
I’m so passionate about flavour and colour that cooking isn’t enough. It gets...
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Printing without a pattern with Pat Pauly
Jo Wright: May 30 2025
They look like paintings from afar… and then you realise they’re quilts. People...
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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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Memory and moment through collage with Robert Lee Davis
Nicola Rough: May 20 2025
All of these bits and pieces make up our landscape. I’m trying to present the...
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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...
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Layered Fragments of Time
Exploring time as both companion and catalyst, these works reflect a layered,...
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Making through the mess with Cas Holmes and Clarissa Callesen
Angela Truscott: May 14 2025
Creativity gives us the tools even if we’re not aware of them at the time. It...
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Radical comfort with Luke Haynes
Jo Wright: May 6 2025
There’s something very tactilely, haptically human in the medium… fabric as...
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Creative healing with Karen Olson
Jo Wright: May 1 2025
I’ve never felt more alive. I connected with nature in a way I never had...
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From the archives: Transforming trauma with Theda Sandiford
Angela Truscott: Apr 15 2025
I wasn’t making art - I was trying to feel better. And then I realised other...
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From the archives: A life in colour with Carlotta
Deborah White: Apr 15 2025
I wasn’t trying to make something beautiful. I was trying to feel something...
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From the archives: Colour alchemy with Jason Logan
Angela Truscott: Apr 11 2025
The land itself has a message. I don’t think it’s something I can translate...