Category: creative business
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What we should be doing in creative business
Spoiler: it’s whatever you want to do. Neither me or anyone else can tell you want you should be doing. Find Your Focus can help you figure out what you really want to be doing. I’m not sure its possible to avoid comparing ourselves to others. As artists or creatives, we engage with the world…
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Claire-Louise Hardie / The Thrifty Stitcher: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 54
Today’s episode is more in the summer of stitch series, this time with a very different kind of maker. Claire-Louise Hardie is a costumier and sewing teacher, expert in making clothes and understanding how clothes work and how they make us feel. This is a really fun conversation exploring very different things than this podcast…
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Jennifer Collier; Making Meaning Podcast Episode 53
Continuing with the summer of stitch theme, in this podcast episode I am talking to the brilliant maker Jennifer Collier, who makes amazing objects in paper using textile techniques. I’ve known Jennifer for years and we’ve worked together and supported each other plenty but still needed to twist her arm to do this podcast, for…
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Wendy Ward; Making Meaning Podcast Episode 52
This week’s podcast episode is with the amazing Wendy Ward – researcher, maker and campaigner around clothes, sustainability and emotional connection to the things we wear. Wendy is a PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University investigating product attachment, craft and broken-ness in fashion. Prior to her PhD she taught sewing to adults and wrote five…
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Find Your Focus for 2025
Working out what’s the right thing for you in your creative practice. The world is pretty confusing and distracting at the moment isn’t it? It seems harder than ever to focus on your own little world of creative practice when there is so much misery, crisis and injustice happening. I’m not claiming this course will…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 39 Artist Support Recipes
In this last conversation of series three, I’ve brought together five members of a group called Artist Support Recipes. A couple of years ago I brought together a group of artists to explore thoughts and ideas about artist support and development. We had some funding to meet for a year and put together some resources…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 38 with Claire Morris-Wright
This week I’m talking to artist Claire Morris-Wright, an artist in neighbouring Northamptonshire, who I’ve known for a few years and always enjoy talking too. We talk about looking closely and thinking deeply, about slow processing of ideas and about sharing and connecting as a fundamental part of both our practices. Claire Morris-Wright is a…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 37 with Amy Twigger Holroyd
In this end of 2023 episode, I’m talking to Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham School of Art & Design, and in her previous life was a knitwear designer and innovator. We go back quite a long way to my early days as a designer maker and the…
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What I’ve learned in 2023
Reflections on my creative life and business over the last year Looking back this year, doing my annual reflect and review process has been tricky. The year got off to a bad start with my dad being very ill and my own health being less than ideal too. We both had surgery and are both…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 36 with Bridget Harvey
Bridget is a maker and researcher who uses ideas around repair to reanimate discarded objects and to tell new stories about our relationship to everyday things. In this conversation we talk about where our interests in object histories and museums converge and about how sharing our research interests in various ways fuels our ongoing curiosity about…
Ruth Singer 