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Findings

Responding to place through sight, sound, and touch, these works reflect...

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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...

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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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From the archives: Antidotes to fast fashion with Claire Wellesley-Smith

Angela Truscott: Apr 3 2025

The only thing I would say is… Make it meaningful for you. You know, that could...

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Stitching every day with Amanda Nadig

Jo Wright: Mar 27 2025

I have too many things in my life that I put a lot of pressure on myself with....

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Realigned

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

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Making the repurposed remarkable with Swapna Namboodiri

Tara Axford: Mar 12 2025

I truly believe that art in any form is a pure gift. When we are growing up, we...

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Sewing stories with Sara Impey

Jo Wright: Mar 5 2025

Every artist must create something that is true to themselves. I think every...

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Inside the wonderland of Ricky Boscarino

Clarissa Callesen: Feb 28 2025

My master plan was never to have a master plan. I didn’t set out to build an...

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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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Finding delight with Lissa Hunter

Angela Truscott: Feb 21 2025

My father was a magician. That sense of relationship to the world is part of my...

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Order, Disorder, Reorder

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

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Unmasking Identity with Katie Green

Nicola Rough: Feb 12 2025

The masks are gritty, visceral, and truth-telling, and they ask the public to...

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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...

From Elements to Archetypes

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

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Stitching nature into existence with Amanda Cobbett

Angela Truscott: Feb 4 2025

The sound of the sewing machine is the soundtrack to my life. My stitching is...

Friday Feature Artists, an introduction

Angela Truscott: Jan 29 2025

After sharing over 150 Friday Feature Artist interviews with you over YouTube,...

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In Retrospect

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

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Art vs. Craft – Insights from Claire Benn

Claire Benn: Dec 13 2024

The debate between art and craft has long been a topic of discussion among...

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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: 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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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...