Friday Feature Artist

Take Two

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.

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S7 · E4
Thursday · 1 hr 5 min
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 author of her book Modern Mending, now in its third printing. In this conversation, Erin shares stories of sentimental repairs, the philosophy of "beautiful and bonkers," and why there are more holes. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E3
August 20 · 1 hr 13 min
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 looked back, developing her signature Dancing With the Wall method. In this conversation, Irene reflects on identity, resilience after a health crisis that took her creativity away, and her recent return to painting. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E2
August 13 · 1 hr 8 min
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 process over finished product. In this conversation, she reflects on her evolving 3D work, a recent Japan residency, and the day she took a chainsaw to a piece in protest. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S7 · E1
August 6 · 1 hr 8 min
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 thirty-five years of practice, sketchbooks, glazes, and a brand new body of work that has him immersing raw, unfired clay in the sea to see what the tide gives back. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E13
July 30 · 1 hr 12 min
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 into an ongoing residency, exploring self-sufficiency in art materials. This conversation covers sustainability, self-publishing, and letting the properties of natural materials guide the work. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E12
July 23 · 58 min
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 approach to papermaking, folding and storytelling through texture and touch. This conversation explores loss, memory, sustainability, and the quiet discipline of making something small and meaningful every day. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E11
July 17 · 54 min
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 guided by feel rather than a fixed plan. This conversation explores balance, containment, and how landscape, light and ritual shape a practice built on patience. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E10
July 9 · 1 hr 6 min
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 her daily fifteen-minute collage ritual, her fascination with weathered city walls and handwriting, and the restraint she calls "a little lipstick" – one considered touch of colour amid quiet, layered compositions. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E9
July 2 · 1 hr 19 min
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 from paper collage to large-scale installation, and speaks candidly about motherhood, climate anxiety, and learning to value her work as her practice has grown. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E8
June 29 · 59 min
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 – exploring what it means to teach intuition, work with salvaged materials, and trust that creativity is not something you find, but something you unlock. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E7
June 18 · 1 hr 10 min
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 sales before finding her own voice, and shares why helping artists go deeper into who they are has become the most meaningful work of her career. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E6
June 11 · 1 hr 6 min
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 conversation, Kenny reflects on material sensitivity, cultural identity, and the quiet courage it takes to deconstruct and rebuild – both in art and in life. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E5
June 5 · 1 hr 4 min
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 that are entirely her own. This conversation explores the crossover between two-dimensional thinking and three-dimensional making – and what it means to work with full creative courage. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E4
May 28 · 1 hr 10 min
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 the doorway into abstract painting – and how repetition, mark making, and a willingness to stay with uncertainty are what ultimately reveal your own unmistakable visual language. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E3
May 21 · 1 hr 25 min
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 the inner critic, the messy middle, and the search for authentic voice – offering a rare, collective portrait of what it truly means to live a creative life. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E2
May 14 · 1 hr 8 min
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 decades of integrating meditation with art-making and the launch of her course, Art as Meditation. The episode offers a quiet, considered look at how stillness, curiosity, and creative practice can become truly inseparable. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S6 · E15
May 7 · 1 hr 2 min
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, where material, rhythm, and lived experience converge. The episode offers a considered look at process-led making and how meaning develops through repetition, attention, and time. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S5 · E14
April 30 · 1 hr 17 min
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 – inviting us to slow down and rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday. This episode is a gentle meditation on making, presence and belonging. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
April 23 · 54 min
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 sculptural work as a slower, more personal form of expression. This discussion explores material transformation, patient making, and the search for forms that offer rest in an overstimulated world. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.
S5 · E13
April 17 · 1 hr 10 min
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 intuitive. In this conversation, Juz reflects on process, materiality, and what it means to reinvent tradition while building a sustainable creative life. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews.

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