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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beyond Technique with Claire Benn

As an artist, technique will only get you so far. Claire Benn explains the...

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Kerri Hollingsworth: The Intuitive Artist

Kerri is a visionary who crafts sculptural textile art designed to be touched,...

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Anna Carll: Chaos and Order

Creating order from chaos is part of artist Anna's routine. Take Two learned...

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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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Kuweni Dimuthu Dias: Reclaiming My Roots

Sri Lankan-born, Australian-based artist, Kuweni has carved a unique space for...

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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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Linda Harvey: teacher and artist

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

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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...