#68: Material Histories, Making in the Home with Deborah McGuire
In this episode we are talking about what it means to work from the home, to work alongside domestic life and how that worked for women make...
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Making Meaning
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...
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20 of 69 episodes#67: Tangled - Textile Stories of Care & Connection
In August I launched my new self-published book Tangled. It's been a long journey from idea in 2018 to finally having the books in my hands...
#66: Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire . In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging...
#65: 21 Years
This week I reflect on 21 years working as an artist and writer. (Oops, I realised after I recorded this that I talk about it being episode...
#64: Where Do I Get My Ideas From?
I have been asked about my ideas and where they come from more than anything else in my 21 year career (although "How long did it take to ma...
#63: Introducing Material Histories with Deb McGuire
Making Histories is a new mini-series of Making Meaning Podcast with special guest co-host Deb McGuire. Deb is a brilliant historian, specia...
#62: Reading & Writing
A few weeks ago someone told me that she didn't know I had written several books, so I realised I don't talk enough about my writing! The po...
#61: Accomplishments and Imagined Mementoes
This week's episode is about the new body of work I made for Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Lift exhibition . Alongside researching, curating a...
#60: Reflections on Mary Linwood
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...
#59: Making Meaning with Rachel Whitworth
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...
#58: Making Meaning with Emily Jo Gibbs
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...
#57: Making Meaning with Jayne Emerson
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...
#56: Making Meaning with Heidi Strobel
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...
#54: Making Meaning with Dr Isabella Rosner
This episode is more of the summer of stitch series, this time with the brilliant Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework curator, po...
#54: Making Meaning with Claire-Louise Hardie / The Thrifty Stitcher
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...
#53: Making Meaning with Jennifer Collier
Continuing with the summer of stitch theme, in this podcast episode I am talking to the brilliant maker Jennifer Collier, who makes amazing...
#52: Making Meaning with Wendy Ward
Wendy Ward - researcher, maker and campaigner around clothes, sustainability and emotional connection to the things we wear. Wendy is a PhD...
#51: Making Meaning - Project books and sharing research
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...
#50: Making Meaning - Cultures of Care Gathering
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...
#49: Making Meaning with Deb McGuire - Part 2
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...