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Nicole Nehrig: the layered power of making
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Jo Wright: Feb 13 2026
“If you envision something, you can make it a reality,” says Nicole Nehrig,”...
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Casey Engel: Evidence of the hand
Angela Truscott: Feb 6 2026
Casey chases the “magnificent wobble” that only handwork can hold. “What it...
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Claire Benn: when handwriting becomes texture
Deborah White: Jan 30 2026
"Once you realise that text is simply a mark, you’re free to go anywhere you...
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Angela Truscott: a new Take Two chapter
Jo Wright: Jan 23 2026
"You can teach skills anywhere - but belonging changes everything", says Angela...
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From the archives: Bryony Rose Jennings
Angela Truscott: Jan 13 2026
You’re just trying to help them realise who they want to become. It sounds...
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From the archives: Olga Radionova sculpts softness and strength
Angela Truscott: Dec 31 2025
Ukrainian artist Olga Radionova transforms wood, metal and textiles into...
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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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From the archives: Sandra Meech stitches landscapes
Angela Truscott: Dec 16 2025
Every time I see my feet in a photo, I’m transported back to that moment in...
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From the archives: Sally Hirst turns memory into material
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Tara Axford: Dec 9 2025
I want to maintain this place of not knowing for as long as possible. If I know...
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Lissy and Rudi are crocheting joy
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Fleur Woods: Dec 2 2025
We knew from day one that this whare would tour the world and have an impact....
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Simone Elizabeth Saunders creates soft textures with strong messages
Jo Wright: Nov 25 2025
Textiles are so soft and tactile, and yet I love that duality – that they can...
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Dana Falcini sculpts the cycle of life
Tara Axford: Nov 18 2025
I realised the work was more mature than I was, and that I needed to grow up...
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Coulter Fussell on quilts and play
Jo Wright: Nov 11 2025
I don’t have to make connections – I know they’re already there. I’m just...
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Jacki Barklie on resisting perfection
Angela Truscott: Nov 5 2025
If you don't take risks, you don’t find those exciting bits. I tear the fabric,...
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Helen Geglio and the quiet strength of cloth
Angela Truscott: Oct 28 2025
A mind map can be described as thinking made visible by pulling a threaded...
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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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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 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
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
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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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...