Tag: craft
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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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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…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 34 Q&A with Ruth Singer
In this episode you’ll hear an edited version of a live Q&A recorded last month on Zoom. The audience were invited to ask questions about my practice in general, or specific current or past projects. You’ll hear me talk about topics including care practices within organisations, caring for others and its impact on practice, and…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 31 Cultures of Care
Making Meaning podcast by Ruth Singer with Kate Unwin
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 30 with Jennie McCall
Making Meaning podcast by Ruth Singer with Kate Unwin
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 29 with Kate Unwin
Making Meaning podcast by Ruth Singer with Kate Unwin
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Making Meaning Digital Journal
Last week I launched Making Meaning Journal with a pre-sale offer before I sent it to print, and then pretty much immediately changed my mind! I have been really reluctant about sending it to print so I interrogated my discomfort and self-mentored to work out what I wanted to do about it. In the end…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 28 with Lucie Bea Dutton
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer with Lucie Bea Dutton
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Cultures of Care talk
Cultures of Care is my new major project. Over the next couple of years I will be looking at under-explored stories of care of people, places, objects. I’m interested in how artist activities and creative practice contributes to a culture of care. Cultures of Care is an umbrella or basket for several different, related activities …