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Making Meaning is a podcast exploring the meaning behind what we make. Artist Ruth Singer talks to creative people about why they make and create. Ruth loves finding out how artists, writers...
This week's episode is about the new body of work I made for Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Lift exhibition . Alongside researching, curating a...
Making Meaning is back with a new series. It's almost five years since I started making this podcast and this is series 6. In this episode I...
In this episode I'm talking to Rachel Whitworth, the curator of Fashion and Textiles at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. Find out about t...
I'm so pleased to share this conversation with Emily Jo Gibbs, a fantastic textile maker who I have admired for many years. It won't surpris...
In this episode I'm talking to the brilliant creative textile designer Jayne Emerson, known to many of you as the creator of the No Rules Te...
Dr Heidi Strobel is my guest in episode 56 about Mary Linwood. Heidi joined me from The University of North Texas, USA where she is is Profe...
This episode is more of the summer of stitch series, this time with the brilliant Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework curator, po...
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 a...
Continuing with the summer of stitch theme, in this podcast episode I am talking to the brilliant maker Jennifer Collier, who makes amazing...
Wendy Ward - researcher, maker and campaigner around clothes, sustainability and emotional connection to the things we wear. Wendy is a PhD...
This episode is a reflection on how I chose to create Cultures of Care Gathering and the sessions, talks and workshops it involves. I also e...
It's episode FIFTY! and the podcast's 4th birthday this week. This is just a mini solo one, sharing some of the story of the Cultures of Car...
Deb McGuire is back! We recording a long conversation and I've split it into two episodes, of which this is the second. I suggest you start...
In this series I'm exploring textile making and the many complex meanings around textile making practice. This episode is the first of a two...
It's been a while, but Making Meaning is back! This series will be full of conversations about textile making and meaning. This episode is w...
Series Five of Making Meaning is here. A lot of this series will be focussing on textiles, although there will be some other stories, conver...
This short episode is a brief introduction to my research project about 18th century embroidery artist Mary Linwood. The episode includes a...
This podcast is again from my Cultures of Care Group and in a change to the usual, it includes the group discussion as well as my talk, whic...
My Cultures of Care project wasn't intentionally all about nature and landscape connection, yet that is what a lot of it has turned out to b...
In my nearly 20 years of creative work, I've developed a real passion for creating artwork with the input of others, either in group making...
I find being reflective in my creative work incredibly useful and have done for many years. In this essay / podcast I share how I came to re...
This new podcast episode, the first in a series of four, is a recording of my first Cultures of Care Group talks. For these sessions I write...
Artist Support Recipes is a group of artists interested in artist support and development. In this podcast we reflect on our learning during...
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...
My Cultures of Care project wasn't intentionally all about nature and landscape connection, yet that is what a lot of it has turned out to b...
In this end of 2023 episode, I'm talking to Amy Twigger Holroyd, who is Associate Professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Nottingham Scho...
Bridget is a maker and researcher who uses ideas around repair to reanimate discarded objects and to tell new stories about our relationship...
This time I'm talking with artist Lisa Solomon. Lisa lives in Oakland, California, where I was very lucky to visit her a couple of times pre...
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...
I'm joined today by historian and writer Barbara Burman who has just published a wonderful new book called The Point of The Needle, Why Sewi...
Episode 32 of Making Meaning is with designer and all-round creative powerhouse Zoe Murphy . Zoe works with colourful screen prints to trans...
This is an extra bonus episode. Rather than the usual conversation, today's episode is a recording of my recent Cultures of Care online talk...
I'm talking today to ceramic artist Jennie McCall. I've known Jennie for quite a few years and have had the pleasure of seeing her work grow...
For the first time, Making Meaning has been recorded outdoors! I met up with Kate Unwin of The Moon and the Furrow at her woodland in Wales....
In this episode, Ruth talks to textile artist and researcher, Lucie Bea Dutton. For the last few years, Lucie has been exploring Hilary Mant...
Hello friends, Making Meaning podcast is back! Or it's almost back, if I can fundraise enough to keep it going. In this episode I'll explain...
In this final conversation of the series, I am talking to Gillian Lee Smith, a Scottish painter based in Northumberland. Gillian and I first...
Mandeep is a printmaker and workshop leader who works under the brand The Laughing Cactus Print Studio. She's also local to me and we've bee...
Making Meaning Live was a fantastic online event in July 2022 created by Ruth Singer. The event brought together creative people to talk abo...
Making Meaning Live was a fantastic online event in July 2022 created by Ruth Singer. The event brought together creative people to talk abo...
Making Meaning Live was a fantastic online event which Ruth Singer created and hosted in July 2022. The event brought together creative peop...
Michaela McMillan's wonderful work often defies categorisation. It is craft or is it assemblage? Is it sculpture or is it textiles? It is me...
Research and stories are fundamental to my work. Everything I make has some kind of message or meaning which I want to express through makin...
Alice's practice is deeply embedded in land and place. She makes with found and natural materials using textile processes and others drawn f...
Textiles in Lockdown was a wonderful project I worked on in 2020. Gawthorpe Textiles Collection commissioned me to research textile making p...
I truly believe that connection and community are vital to creativity. It's hard to be making work on your own without conversations, feedba...
Wellbeing through stitch and communal creative practice runs through Claire's practice, writing and projects. She's just completed a PhD exp...
I've been enormously lucky over the last 10 years or so to work with Louise at Llantarnam Grange on both group and solo exhibitions. In this...
Sharon's work really fascinates me. Her objects tell intriguing stories of the landscape she is rooted in and allow for contemplation and im...
It's great to be back with a new series of Making Meaning. In this episode I'm talking to artist Helen Hallows about living a creative life...