Tag: Ruth Singer
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode Three – Caren Garfen
An introduction to the first episode of Making Meaning, a podcast by Ruth Singer exploring the meaning behind what we make.
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode Two – Gillian McFarland
An introduction to the first episode of Making Meaning, a podcast by Ruth Singer exploring the meaning behind what we make.
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Creative confidence through mentoring
Mentoring for artists, makers and creative business owners Recently my friend and mentor Melody Vaughan shared a series of blog posts about mentoring / coaching within a craft context. She has generously included me in one of her posts, as well as Sharon Adams who is also an artist-mentor. Melody reflected on the importance of mentoring and also…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode One – Welcome
An introduction to the first episode of Making Meaning, a podcast by Ruth Singer exploring the meaning behind what we make.
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Developing a body of work
Creating a consistent body of work as a textile artist is really hard. I’ve been through it and now I want to share that process and learning through my Maker Membership.
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Where do you get your ideas from?
Maker Membership with Ruth Singer, for textile makers who want to be inspired, creative, imaginative and make work with meaning. I get asked this question all the time, as though people are looking for The Magic Answer or trying to understand how I do my research and develop original ideas for my creative work. It’s…
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Textiles In Lockdown Online Talk
Join Ruth Singer to hear more about the textiles in lockdown project with Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Monday 18th January. Textiles in Lockdown was a commission from Gawthorpe Textiles Collection to gather stories about textile making during the first UK lockdown in March-June 2020. I worked with them over the late summer to collect stories from…
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Mini Prints
I want my work to be accessible to as many people as possible, so I have started producing mini prints from professional photos of my pieces. These are professionally-printed on high quality archival paper and each print is around 6x8inches (or a little smaller depending on borders) so somewhere between postcard and A5. These three…
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Digital Print on Textile
My artist statement says that I prefer to use old cloth in my work, enjoying the history embedded within the textile, and I have tried throughout my 15 years of practice to use sustainable textile techniques. It isn’t the whole story as I do also use digital print on new fabrics for specific projects. I…