Exploring the role of women artists, designers and architects working in the Modernist style – Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, and Charlotte Perriand – with artist Sharon Haward…
… Interview: Homework with Sharon Haward
Category: Interviews
Curator Interview: Marit Paasche on Scandinavian textile artist Hannah Ryggen
Curator Marit Paasche is responsible for much of the revival of interest in Ryggen. We caught up with Marit to discuss Ryggen’s art, politics, and connection to the Norwegian landscape…
… Curator Interview: Marit Paasche on Scandinavian textile artist Hannah Ryggen
Curator Interview: Locating Rural Modernism with Hope Wolf
Speaking about Sussex Modernism, we caught up with Wolf her about curation, expanding the local, and the importance of ‘making’…
… Curator Interview: Locating Rural Modernism with Hope Wolf
Interview: Nnenna Okore on Fraying, Twisting, Teasing, Tying
We spoke with Nnenna Okore about the process of shredding, fraying, twisting, teasing, tying, weaving, stitching, and dyeing in her create rich, textured work…
… Interview: Nnenna Okore on Fraying, Twisting, Teasing, Tying
Interview: Seleena Laverne Daye on making zines & crafting change
Seleena Laverne Daye‘s material of choice is felt. The fuzzy texture is the perfect fabric to bring their politically, pop culture driven work to life. As a self-taught artist, Daye creates personal narratives in her art and tackles topics relating to race, class, sexuality and gender. As the co-editor (alongside Em Ledger) of Poor Lass Zine, she has provided a platform for working class voices across eight issues with a podcast and live event in the works. We caught up with Daye to ask more about her projects, the importance of skill sharing, and the ways in which working class voices can be facilitated better in the arts…
… Interview: Seleena Laverne Daye on making zines & crafting change
Interview: Memes & (Im)materiality with Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark
Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark is a multimedia digital sculptor, writer and curator based in London. She explores hybridity, form, and the reframing of black anatomy and autonomy in her work.
… Interview: Memes & (Im)materiality with Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark
Interview: Navigating the Avant-Garde & the Digital Humanities
Spanning Dada, Surrealism, Futurism a user can travel to Paris, Florence and New York as the creators think about mapping in a way that really opens out what digital humanities can do.
… Interview: Navigating the Avant-Garde & the Digital Humanities
Surreal chats with Aleksandra Kingo
Aleksandra Kingo takes hyper-real photographs that hinge on the surreal. Her influences feel like they take away from the likes of 70s fashion and New Wave cinema, with a generous helping of pop-culture in-between. Whether its commercial work, personal or editorial, Kingo’s images pop off the page (or screen). Unique, colourful and unmistakably hers, these juxtapositions will transport you. We caught up with her to find out what makes this designer tick. … Surreal chats with Aleksandra Kingo
Interview: Self Care Textiles by Olivia Domingos
Olivia Domingos combines textiles and simple messages to create an intervention…
… Interview: Self Care Textiles by Olivia Domingos
Weaving Dreams with The London Loom
The London Loom is a workshop space that is every wannabe-weavers fantasy. Filled to the brim with materials, you can warp and weft until your heart’s content. The project was started by two friends Francesca Kletz and Brooke Dennis, who believe that craft is all about working in collaboration. Jade French finds out more…
… Weaving Dreams with The London Loom
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