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
69 episodes
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,...
From the archives: From rust to textile resonance with Sue Hotchkis
Textile artist Sue Hotchkis transforms everyday decay into captivating, layered artworks that blur the line between 2D and 3D. Through photography, printing, dyeing, and stitching, she reimagines textures, rust, weathered walls, and peeling pai...
Melissa Monroe: Tufting faces and forms
In this episode, tufting artist Melissa Monroe creates exuberant textile works that sit somewhere between furniture, sculpture and wall-based art. In this conversation, she shares how colour, character and everyday life shape her practice – and...
Stéphanie Devaux: Where ink meets lace
In this episode, Sophie Edwards speaks with French artist Stéphanie Devaux about the quiet dialogue between writing and textile. Working across calligraphy, embroidery and artist books, Stéphanie transforms text into tactile form. She reflects ...
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Kazuya Nohara: living in indigo
In this episode, we hear how Japanese designer Kazuya Nohara and his partner Miki work with traditional Hontate indigo fermentation in rural Japan, creating hand-sewn garments dyed in living vats he tends himself. In this thoughtful conversatio...
Shelly Goldsmith: Nature, Nurture and the Unravelling Thread
In this episode, textile artist Shelly Goldsmith works across hand weaving, digital cloth and installation to explore inheritance, motherhood and the origins of self. In conversation with Jo Wright, she reflects on slow process, psychological t...
Julian Jamaal Jones: Expressive authenticity
In this episode, textile artist Julian Jamaal Jones reimagines quilting as contemporary fine art – bold, abstract works built from sketches, printed cloth, and rhythmic stitching. In conversation with Angela Truscott, Julian reflects on making ...
Nicole Nehrig: the layered power of making
In this episode, psychologist, writer and textile maker Nicole Nehrig joins Jo Wright for a wide-ranging conversation on the social, historical, and cultural power of making. Drawing from her book and lived experience, Nicole reflects on craft ...
Casey Engel: Evidence of the hand
In this episode, quilter and multidisciplinary artist Casey Engel moves between fibre, ceramics, printmaking and painting – chasing that “magnificent wobble” only handwork can hold. In this conversation, she reflects on embracing imperfection, ...
Claire Benn: When handwriting becomes texture
In this episode, Claire Benn joins Deborah White to reflect on handwriting as an expressive, material practice. Working across ink, paper and textiles, Claire speaks about text as mark, texture and gesture rather than language. The conversation...
Angela Truscott: a new Take Two chapter
As a new brand (and new era!) of the business begins, founder Angela Truscott speaks to Creative Director Jo Wright about building an inclusive creative community rooted in education, quality, and care. Angela shares the personal and profession...
From the archives: Bryony Jennings on embracing the fray
From her studio on the Hampshire coast, textile sculptor Bryony Jennings stitches soulful creatures from vintage cloth, forgotten buttons and timeworn threads. In this thoughtful conversation, Bryony reflects on the slow magic of her making pro...
From the archives: Marian Jazmik finds beauty in the everyday
Marian Jazmik is a UK-based textile artist known for her inventive mixed media sculptures inspired by nature’s quiet details. In this conversation, Marion shares how retirement became her creative beginning, why texture speaks louder than colou...
From the archives: Olga Radionova sculpts softness and strength
Ukrainian artist Olga Radionova transforms wood, metal and textiles into sculptural works that explore strength, vulnerability and rebirth. From soft sculptures to weapon remnants reborn as flowers, Olga’s practice is both a tactile celebration...
From the archives: Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn listen to land and respond in textile
What does it mean to know a place? For textile artists Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn, it begins with walking, listening, collecting – and letting the land leave its mark. In this rare and intimate conversation across three continent...
From the archives: Sandra Meech stitches landscapes
Canadian-born artist Sandra Meech blends photography, painting, and stitch to tell layered stories of landscape, memory and climate. Drawing from Arctic expeditions and the flooded fields of Somerset, her work reveals what lies beneath – from m...
From the archives: Sally Hirst turns memory into material
Painter, printmaker and educator Sally Hirst brings a fearless, can-do spirit to her richly layered abstractions. Guided by memory, material and the textures of the urban environment, Sally’s work is an evolving conversation between painting, p...
Lissy and Rudi are crocheting joy
Lissy and Rudi Cole are collaborative fibre artists, visionaries and partners in life and art. Guided by aroha, whakapapa and a bold creative spirit, they transform simple crochet into monumental public artworks. In this intimate episode, th...
