Sahar Freemantle
Discuss race season and its value to millinery. The racing carnival is big in Melbourne with the 'Melbourne Cup', the race that stops a Nation.…
Richard McVetis
Do you feel that coming to embroidery without any preconceived knowledge has been a great asset to your work?I had a very basic view of textiles…
Janine Heschl
It is going back to 2015 but I love the simplicity of ‘Jacket Sparrow’ discuss. Back in 2015, I had just finished an intense portrait of a meerkat…
Margaret Jones
Can you explain ‘The Way of All Flesh’? This piece came out of seeing the scans of my Mums brain when she was diagnosed with vascular dementia. It is…
Barbara Nell Morejon
You have been working with textiles for over 30 years. When did you narrow it down to felt making? Felting became my sole focus in 2005 when I…
Julia Levander Drew
Can you expand on the terminology of fake taxidermy – fauxidermy? It was a good word to use in the beginning when I was mostly doing quirky and…
Susan Avishai
You have been working with textile waste for the past ten years. What lead you to this area of art? Inspiration. My mother died in 2009 and the sad…
David Higgins
You have had many residencies take two and expand on how the actual residency developed your art. It is hard to say which residency has impacted me…
David Edmond
You worked as a designer before starting you painting practice. Does this have any bearing on your paintings?1986 textile collection I ran my own…
Chris Motley
What led you to take knitting to another level?Helping My mother taught me to knit when I was in grade school, so I’ve been knitting for 50 years…
Laura Baruël
Your work is varied from origami, plant printing and large paper art. How and why have Nordic flowers played such an important role in this work? At…
Nigel Cheney
Your work is often full of storytelling – comment. I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an early age…
Nigel Cheney
Your work is often full of storytelling – comment. I am driven by narrative. I tend to anthropomorphise to an unhealthy extent and from an…
Michelle Mischkulnig
Expand on your quote, “I am passionate about my art, created with joy”.Ramblers Garden 2, Detail I love starting each day with the sense of…
Louise Richardson
Explain how you use three mediums, textiles, sculpture and photography to make a piece.Talisman Talisman has all three of these ingredients within…
Paola Zanda
Discuss the importance of abstract and minimalism in our current work. Although I had good results with the figurative, I was not fully satisfied. I…
Diane Meyer
When did you first combine stitch with photograph? I’ve been embroidering into photographs since 2011. Initially, I was interested in combining a…
Paula Kovarik
Your most resent exhibition is titled, ‘Stitched Dissent'. Discuss the title and why you feel personally, the need to use art in relations to the…
Gjertrud Hals
Explain about your recent work with copper wire.EIR series, Knitted copper wire, Photo by Sjur Fedje For the last 2-3 years I have been working…
Helen McAllister
Explain about your training both PHD in Practice Design and MA in Embroidered Textiles. The Embroidery interest emerged in my final years in school.…
Yekaterina (Katia) Mokeyeva
Take one piece that you are proud of and explain why? Innovation is what I am probably the proudest of. In sayings like "The new is the…
Norma Minkowitz
So many found objects and textiles, how did this combination come about? Early on in the 1970's my work was both knitted and crocheted in opaque…
David Oliveira
Your sculpture is just like a drawing. How did you come to this technique? I consider my sculptures drawings, or if you prefer 3D drawings. I was…
Aino Kajaniemi
How do you portray ‘moments and atmospheres in a persons life’ onto fabric? I see my art as symbols. In my tapestries I combine human beings and…
Chris Chun, Painter- Plus
Explain how you have your feet in both countries, Thailand and Australia? My husband and I have been based here in Chiang Mai since 2010. Originally,…
Muffy Clark Gill
Takes the old craft of batik; into contemporary art, giving it an new life. Zoneone Arts brings Muffy Clark Gill to you… I first discovered…
Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Milwaukee, USA How does Kaganovich find the time? With this complex mix, Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Art…
Tasha Lewis
Tasha Lewis, New York, USA Tasha Lewis explains how she showed her art around the world. The Swam went from the South Pole to her home city, New…
Deborah Kruger
Deborah Kruger, Chapala, Mexico Deborah Kruger’s inspiration is taken from bird migrational patterns. Kruger’s work is a story, interwoven with…
Eleanor Bolton
Sailors, Scouts and Girl Guilds all know about knots, now Eleanor Bolton uses historical knotting and coiling techniques to make contemporary…
Sidhart Sodhani
How did the Dye School coming into being? I have been running a natural dye manufacturing and retail business over the past four and a half years…
Annika Ekdahl
Why did you specialize in tapestry? All throughout my childhood and teens I drew and painted, but the Green Wave winds in the 1970s awoke my longing…
Helen Richman
You have an ancient craft that you give a modern take to doing bespoke pieces. Can you give some insight into a small but precious piece you have…
Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė
Can you explain how you first began this combination of metal and embroidery? I will admit that this is one of the most popular questions I get…
Kristy Kun
Can you please comment on the statement, ‘Harnessed by the warmth and touch of her hands, wool emerges in a new dimension?’ I really can't stop my…
Barbara Burns
Can you expand on your relationship with fashion and your tapestry Revolution! Fashion Series?For about 10 years, I volunteered at a local…
Outi Martikainen
Your work has changed greatly since you completed Textile Art and Design in 1999. Can you point out several of the milestones? The whole way through…
Louise Saxton
You do not see your work as textile art, rather Mixed Media Assemblage can you expand on this? I describe myself as an “assemblage artist”, as my…
Pamela MacGregor
Explain how you were introduced to felt and the possibilities it presents to you artistically? I was an art teacher for 28 years in a public school.…
Flo Snook
It is not just the sea but the influences made by man to the coastline e.g. piers, fishing cottages that are represented in you work, discuss. I am…
Jenny Bowker
‘Hashim’ - image by Patricia BoltoCan you discuss your former training in science and the direct advantages this has played in relation to…
Amy Nguyen
Please comment on your relationship with Mary Edna Fraser and where it has led you? Mary Edna Fraser and I connected after I graduated from college.…
Meg Little
Explain the importance your move to Cornwall, in the UK, was to the development of your art in rug making? I moved to Cornwall in 1984 right after…
Alex Friedman
You have a BA, Art History / Fine Art degree. How has this influenced your tapestry? What was your artistic background? As a child I loved to draw. I…
Martha Fieber
You call your work, ‘Landscapes in Thread’. Can you discuss this? My work is all landscapes. Some are realistic and some abstract. By far, the…
Barbara Heller
Explain how you personally have promoted tapestry both locally and internationally? The most visible way I promote tapestry is by weaving in the…
Luanne Rimel
Discuss why you tend to work in series? The content of my work deals with Time, i.e. the passage of time, memory, remembrance, decay, and even…
Tracy Krumm
Childhood experiences passed on by Grandmothers have influenced the direction of your artwork, please comment? By teaching me to crochet, tat,…
Patrick Ahern
How did you break down this major misconception about who does crochet? I never thought crochet was something I could not do because it wasn’t what…
Maryline Collioud-Robert
There has been a strong and consistent growth in your quilts from the 1980’s through to today. Can you discuss how you keep developing your style? I…