Featured stories 

by Take Two

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

Podcasts (2)

Beverly Y Smith - Friday Feature Artist

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Quilted truths with Beverly Y. Smith

My grandmother taught me that the smallest piece of fabric can hold generations...

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Nicola Bennett - Friday Feature Artist

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Painting flavour with Nicola Bennett

I’m so passionate about flavour and colour that cooking isn’t enough. It gets...

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Pat Pauly - Friday Feature Artist

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Printing without a pattern with Pat Pauly

They look like paintings from afar… and then you realise they’re quilts. People...

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Caroline Bartlett - Friday Feature Artist

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Process and discomfort Caroline Bartlett

It’s the doing and the undoing and the redoing. There’s a repetition in that…...

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Robert Lee Davis - Friday Feature Artist

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Memory and moment through collage with Robert Lee Davis

All of these bits and pieces make up our landscape. I’m trying to present the...

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Hannah Gartside - Friday Feature Artist

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The secret life of fabric with Hannah Gartside

You have to go beyond what's possible now and think about what's possible...

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Cas and Clarissa - Friday Feature Artists

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Making through the mess with Cas Holmes and Clarissa Callesen

Creativity gives us the tools even if we’re not aware of them at the time. It...

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Luke Haynes - Friday Feature Artist

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Radical comfort with Luke Haynes

There’s something very tactilely, haptically human in the medium… fabric as...

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Karen Olson - Friday Feature Artist

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Creative healing with Karen Olson

I’ve never felt more alive. I connected with nature in a way I never had...

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Theda Sandiford - Friday Feature Artist

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From the archives: Transforming trauma with Theda Sandiford

I wasn’t making art - I was trying to feel better. And then I realised other...

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Carlotta Parisi - Friday Feature Artist

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From the archives: A life in colour with Carlotta

I wasn’t trying to make something beautiful. I was trying to feel something...

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Jason Logan - Friday Feature Article

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From the archives: Colour alchemy with Jason Logan

The land itself has a message. I don’t think it’s something I can translate...

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Claire Wellesley-Smith - Friday Feature Artist

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

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

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Amanda Nadig - Friday Feature Artist

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Stitching every day with Amanda Nadig

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

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Friday Feature Artist Swapna Namboodiri

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Making the repurposed remarkable with Swapna Namboodiri

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

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Friday Feature Artist Sara Impey

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Sewing stories with Sara Impey

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

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Ricky Boscarino - Friday Feature Artist interview

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Inside the wonderland of Ricky Boscarino

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

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Finding delight with Lissa Hunter

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

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Katie Green - Friday Feature Artist

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Unmasking Identity with Katie Green

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

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

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Friday Feature Artists, an introduction

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

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