Friday Feature Artist
Each week, we sit down with some of the world’s most talented and successful artists and share the stories that have influenced their creative journeys. From their earliest experiments to their most impactful works, you’ll discover the processes and philosophies that have shaped their art.
Whether you’re a practicing artist, a craft enthusiast, or simply captivated by the beauty of mixed media art, we invite you to join us on this exclusive peek inside the world of our amazing feature artists.
Tune in to inspire your imagination, connect with our global artist community, and enjoy some fabulous art banter.
Episodes
86 episodes
Patrick Bongoy: Sacred material
Congolese-born, Cape Town-based artist Patrick Bongoy transforms reclaimed rubber inner tubes into intricately woven sculptures confronting histories of extraction, displacement and survival. A 2024 LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize finalist now rep...
Catherine-Marie Longtin: Quilts, endlessly
French Canadian textile artist Catherine-Marie Longtin, based in South London, builds quilts and stretched fabric artworks from collected linens and solids, favouring analogous colour and hand-pieced geometry over pattern and print. A former ac...
Anne von Freyburg: Sewing rebellion into softness
Dutch, London-based artist Anne von Freyburg creates large-scale textile paintings that reimagine Rococo portraiture in hand-sewn tapestry, sequins and PVC fabric. In this conversation, she unpacks the hierarchy between painting and textile, wh...
Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald: Modern mender
Melbourne-based repair artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald mends clothes with visible, playful stitching that turns holes into design features rather than flaws. Once called "a tattoo artist for clothes," she teaches darning and mending and is the aut...
Irene Roderick: On starting again
Austin, Texas-based textile artist Irene Roderick creates bold, improvisational quilts, building each piece outward from a single scrap of fabric pinned to her design wall. After decades as a painter, she discovered quilting at 66 and never loo...
Paula Kovarik: Stitching as meditation and protest
Memphis-based fiber artist Paula Kovarik creates layered quilted and sculptural works by cutting up her own quilts and repurposing them as raw material. Her practice channels memory, politics and the news cycle into stitch and line, favouring p...
Craig Underhill: What the tide gives back
Cornwall-based ceramicist Craig Underhill creates slab-built forms that blur the line between sculpture and vessel, their surfaces layered with marks and colour drawn straight from the Cornish coastline. In this conversation, Craig reflects on ...
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From the archives: Listening to the materials with Alice Fox
Natural fibre artist Alice Fox discusses her process-led practice – working with rust, plant dyes, foraged fibres and hand-bound books shaped by materials found and grown. A former nature conservationist, she describes turning her allotment int...
From the archives: A story in every fold with Sarah Grace Dye
Visual artist and bookmaker Sarah Grace Dye discusses her practice of transforming discarded materials – avocado skins, kitchen roll, family letters – into artists' books and keepsakes. Working from a small studio in Frankfurt, she shares her a...
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From the archives: Vessels that hold light with Gizella Warburton
British textile artist Gizella Warburton discusses her sculptural vessel forms – shadowed, scratched, stitched, bound and burnt into being. Drawing on printed and woven textile training, she describes making as a visceral, intuitive process gui...
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From the archives: Whispers in cloth with Jette Clover
Danish-born textile artist Jette Clover reflects on four decades of art quiltmaking – from curating Europe's first art quilt exhibitions to creating intimate, text-based collages of paper, cloth and paint. Now based in Antwerp, she discusses he...
Clare Celeste Börsch: Enchanted ecosystems
American collage and installation artist Clare Celeste Börsch, based in Berlin, creates immersive works from found and open-source naturalist illustrations, exploring biodiversity, memory and loss. In this conversation, she traces her evolution...
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Kerri Hollingsworth: Threads of Connection
Kerri Hollingsworth is a fibre artist and furniture upholsterer based in regional Victoria. Surrounded by nature, it finds its way into every piece she makes. In this conversation, Kerry talks about her new course, Threads of Connection – explo...
Donna Watson: Essence of Identity
Donna Watson is a professional mixed media artist with over 45 years of practice, known for work that explores memory, identity, and the passage of time. In this conversation with Angela Truscott, Donna reflects on two decades of painting for s...
Kenny Nguyen: The courage and curiosity of material
Vietnamese–American artist Kenny Nguyen creates sculptural paintings that blur the boundaries between textile, painting and form. Working with torn silk soaked in pigment, his practice explores memory, migration and transformation. In this conv...
Emily Stubbs: Where collage meets clay
Emily Stubbs is a contemporary British ceramicist based in York, whose vessels begin not with clay, but with paper. Drawing on collage, monoprinting, and an instinct for bold colour and graphic contrast, Emily builds fragmented, layered vessels...
Nicola Bennett: Edible Abstraction
Nicola Bennett is a New Zealand painter, galleried artist, and teacher whose abstract work draws from the colours, textures, and sensory pleasures of the edible world. In this conversation, Nicola shares how flavour and felt experience become t...
Episode 200: It’s a Friday Feature Artist retrospective!
In this special 200th episode, the Take Two team steps back to reflect on the voices, insights and patterns woven through years of artist interviews. Drawing from a rich archive of conversations across textile and fibre practices, they explore ...
Sarah Brayer: Art as meditation
Sarah Brayer is a Kyoto-based artist working across painting, woodblock printmaking, and washi papermaking. Her practice explores light, impermanence, and the inner life through meditative mark-making. In this conversation, she reflects on four...
Jane Walkley: Weaving memory into material
Jane Walkley is a Leeds-based artist working across tapestry, mould making, and casting. Her practice explores memory, labour, and regeneration within post-industrial sites. In this conversation, she reflects on her research at Sunny Bank Mill,...
From the archives: Finding wonder in the everyday with Shona Wilson
Australian artist Shona Wilson creates delicate, ephemeral works in collaboration with nature, transforming found materials into moments of quiet wonder. With a practice spanning three decades, she reflects on attention, scale and connection – ...
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From the archives: Folding quiet forms with Kinga Földi
In this episode, we chat with Hungarian textile artist Kinga Földi creates delicate silk sculptures shaped by pintuck, origami and a deep attentiveness to nature. After years in fashion, costume and theatre design, she turned to freestanding sc...
From the archives: Between life and form with Juz Kitson
In this episode, ceramic artist Juz Kitson creates visceral, hybrid sculptures that blur the line between human, animal and object. Working across porcelain, found materials and installation, her practice is both technically rigorous and deeply...
Robert Lee Davis: Playing your way back to art
In conversation, mixed media artist and educator Robert Lee Davis reflects on creativity as a deeply human, accessible practice grounded in memory, observation and play. Working with found materials and everyday fragments, he reveals how art ca...
From the archives: From clay to cardboard with Ann Weber
After decades working in functional ceramics, Ann Weber shifted her practice toward monumental cardboard sculpture – transforming a humble, discarded material into powerful, anthropomorphic forms. In this conversation, she reflects on material,...
