Pat Burns-Wendland
How important was it to win the Reed T Cooper Bursary, to your career? The Reed T Cooper Bursary is awarded to a mid-career artist. I was fortunate…
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…
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…
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…
Susan Cutts
Are all, of your sculptures constructed in paper? Yes, I work solely in paper although having said that I have used tulle dipped in pulp for the…
Charlene Foster
How influential was the Avon Place Glass in Cambridge, USA have on your early career? Avon Place Glass was the first hot shop I stepped foot into,…
Yasemen Hussein
What made you move from glass to metal? I actually started off my imagined career as a dancer, god did I want to be a dancer, but my parents were…
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,…
Freya Powell
How has your background in fashion and flowers influenced your art? Before I started painting, my main interest was always fashion and…
Reiko Miyagi
East meets West and Reiko Miyagi produces new ceramics Zoneone Arts brings Reiko Miyagi to you… Can you explain about your pottery training and…
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…
Karen LaMonte
Rather than ask Karen LaMonte to repeat herself by answering my questions Zoneone Arts knows you will be enthralled by watching the video as Karen…
Francesca Vitali
How did you first become involved with paper? I have always folded paper since I was a kid. My parents' store, among other things used to run a lotto…
Ola Shekhtman
Explain your training in St Petersburg in Russia? I was born in Siberia, but when I was 23 I moved to St Petersburg, worked as customs specialist in…
Michaël Cailloux
Your work is often called jewellery for walls discuss this in relationship to your work? I decided to call my sculptures “Wall jewelry” because I…
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…
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…
Bridget Davies
You have been involved in fashion discuss this in relation to your series ‘What to Wear when Walking the Dog’. My collection ‘What to Wear When…
Nancy Raasch
Can you discuss the technique of mulberry paper and why you are so impressed with it? Joomchi is a traditional Korean craft. You combine sheets of…
Mariolina Mascarino
Can you discuss your thoughts on the overlapping of design and fashion in your work?In my mind design and fashion are true art forms which are…