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Episode 200: It’s a Friday Feature Artist retrospective!
May 21, 2026
1h 25m 49s
Sarah Brayer: Art as meditation
May 14, 2026
1h 08m 57s
Jane Walkley: Weaving memory into material
May 7, 2026
1h 02m 52s
From the archives: Finding wonder in the everyday with Shona Wilson
Apr 30, 2026
1h 17m 31s
From the archives: Folding quiet forms with Kinga Földi
Apr 23, 2026
54m 51s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/21/26 |  Episode 200: It’s a Friday Feature Artist retrospective! | In this special 200th episode, the Take Two team steps back to reflect on the voices, insights and patterns woven through years of artist interviews. Drawing from a rich archive of conversations across textile and fibre practices, they explore the inner critic, the messy middle, and the search for authentic voice – offering a rare, collective portrait of what it truly means to live a creative life. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 25m 49s | ||||||
| 5/14/26 |  Sarah Brayer: Art as meditation | Sarah Brayer is a Kyoto-based artist working across painting, woodblock printmaking, and washi papermaking. Her practice explores light, impermanence, and the inner life through meditative mark-making. In this conversation, she reflects on four decades of integrating meditation with art-making and the launch of her course, Art as Meditation. The episode offers a quiet, considered look at how stillness, curiosity, and creative practice can become truly inseparable. Visit our website to explore... | 1h 08m 57s | ||||||
| 5/7/26 |  Jane Walkley: Weaving memory into material | Jane Walkley is a Leeds-based artist working across tapestry, mould making, and casting. Her practice explores memory, labour, and regeneration within post-industrial sites. In this conversation, she reflects on her research at Sunny Bank Mill, where material, rhythm, and lived experience converge. The episode offers a considered look at process-led making and how meaning develops through repetition, attention, and time. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and... | 1h 02m 52s | ||||||
| 4/30/26 |  From the archives: Finding wonder in the everyday with Shona Wilson | Australian artist Shona Wilson creates delicate, ephemeral works in collaboration with nature, transforming found materials into moments of quiet wonder. With a practice spanning three decades, she reflects on attention, scale and connection – inviting us to slow down and rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday. This episode is a gentle meditation on making, presence and belonging. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 17m 31s | ||||||
| 4/23/26 |  From the archives: Folding quiet forms with Kinga Földi | In this episode, we chat with Hungarian textile artist Kinga Földi creates delicate silk sculptures shaped by pintuck, origami and a deep attentiveness to nature. After years in fashion, costume and theatre design, she turned to freestanding sculptural work as a slower, more personal form of expression. This discussion explores material transformation, patient making, and the search for forms that offer rest in an overstimulated world. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into mo... | 54m 51s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 |  From the archives: Between life and form with Juz Kitson | In this episode, ceramic artist Juz Kitson creates visceral, hybrid sculptures that blur the line between human, animal and object. Working across porcelain, found materials and installation, her practice is both technically rigorous and deeply intuitive. In this conversation, Juz reflects on process, materiality, and what it means to reinvent tradition while building a sustainable creative life. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 10m 21s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 |  Robert Lee Davis: Playing your way back to art | In conversation, mixed media artist and educator Robert Lee Davis reflects on creativity as a deeply human, accessible practice grounded in memory, observation and play. Working with found materials and everyday fragments, he reveals how art can soften the world, invite reflection, and reconnect us to ourselves. This conversation offers a gentle yet powerful reminder that creativity begins wherever you are, with whatever you have. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more ar... | 1h 04m 39s | ||||||
| 4/1/26 |  From the archives: From clay to cardboard with Ann Weber | After decades working in functional ceramics, Ann Weber shifted her practice toward monumental cardboard sculpture – transforming a humble, discarded material into powerful, anthropomorphic forms. In this conversation, she reflects on material, scale, persistence, and purpose, offering a deeply honest look at what it means to build a life in art. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 01m 22s | ||||||
| 3/27/26 |  From the archives: From rust to textile resonance with Sue Hotchkis | Textile artist Sue Hotchkis transforms everyday decay into captivating, layered artworks that blur the line between 2D and 3D. Through photography, printing, dyeing, and stitching, she reimagines textures, rust, weathered walls, and peeling paint into sculptural fabrics. This episode explores her fearless experimentation, intuitive process, and how she finds beauty in imperfection, chance, and the quiet stories of time. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and ... | 1h 03m 50s | ||||||
| 3/20/26 |  Melissa Monroe: Tufting faces and forms | In this episode, tufting artist Melissa Monroe creates exuberant textile works that sit somewhere between furniture, sculpture and wall-based art. In this conversation, she shares how colour, character and everyday life shape her practice – and how instinct, material knowledge and a willingness to loosen up allow each piece to become itself fully. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 54m 14s | ||||||
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| 3/13/26 |  Stéphanie Devaux: Where ink meets lace | In this episode, Sophie Edwards speaks with French artist Stéphanie Devaux about the quiet dialogue between writing and textile. Working across calligraphy, embroidery and artist books, Stéphanie transforms text into tactile form. She reflects on learning from rare books in Paris, the meditative rhythm of stitch and script, and the moment when ink and thread dissolve into one visual language. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 52m 17s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 |  Kazuya Nohara: living in indigo | In this episode, we hear how Japanese designer Kazuya Nohara and his partner Miki work with traditional Hontate indigo fermentation in rural Japan, creating hand-sewn garments dyed in living vats he tends himself. In this thoughtful conversation, he reflects on learning to release control, building a business at nature’s pace, and seeing indigo not just as colour, but as culture, partnership and practice. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 12m 13s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 |  Shelly Goldsmith: Nature, Nurture and the Unravelling Thread | In this episode, textile artist Shelly Goldsmith works across hand weaving, digital cloth and installation to explore inheritance, motherhood and the origins of self. In conversation with Jo Wright, she reflects on slow process, psychological theory and the courage to trust intuition. This thoughtful episode moves between the intimate and the cosmic, revealing how cloth becomes a vehicle for life’s biggest questions. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and int... | 1h 17m 08s | ||||||
| 2/19/26 |  Julian Jamaal Jones: Expressive authenticity | In this episode, textile artist Julian Jamaal Jones reimagines quilting as contemporary fine art – bold, abstract works built from sketches, printed cloth, and rhythmic stitching. In conversation with Angela Truscott, Julian reflects on making through grief, family lineage, and the freedom of abstraction as protection. A thoughtful episode about taste, confidence, and building a signature language in cloth. And some good news: we are filming a course with Julian soon! Join the waiting list on... | 1h 18m 25s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 |  Nicole Nehrig: the layered power of making | In this episode, psychologist, writer and textile maker Nicole Nehrig joins Jo Wright for a wide-ranging conversation on the social, historical, and cultural power of making. Drawing from her book and lived experience, Nicole reflects on craft as a therapeutic practice, a cultural language, and a tool for connection, protest and meaning-making across time. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 18m 17s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 |  Casey Engel: Evidence of the hand | In this episode, quilter and multidisciplinary artist Casey Engel moves between fibre, ceramics, printmaking and painting – chasing that “magnificent wobble” only handwork can hold. In this conversation, she reflects on embracing imperfection, trusting risk, and making work that resists utility while staying deeply intimate. From thrifted textiles to residencies without internet, Casey shares a practice built on courage, surprise, and renewal. Visit our website to explore our courses, or dive... | 1h 14m 59s | ||||||
| 1/30/26 |  Claire Benn: When handwriting becomes texture | In this episode, Claire Benn joins Deborah White to reflect on handwriting as an expressive, material practice. Working across ink, paper and textiles, Claire speaks about text as mark, texture and gesture rather than language. The conversation explores learning through repetition, suspending judgement, and how slowing down can open new creative pathways. Claire also shares insights into the ideas and approaches woven through her new course TEXTure, offering a glimpse of what participants can... | 1h 21m 14s | ||||||
| 1/23/26 |  Angela Truscott: a new Take Two chapter | As a new brand (and new era!) of the business begins, founder Angela Truscott speaks to Creative Director Jo Wright about building an inclusive creative community rooted in education, quality, and care. Angela shares the personal and professional journey behind Take Two – from leaving corporate life to championing artists, students, a caring team, and collaboration. This episode offers rare insight into values-led creative leadership. | 1h 25m 39s | ||||||
| 1/16/26 |  From the archives: Bryony Jennings on embracing the fray | From her studio on the Hampshire coast, textile sculptor Bryony Jennings stitches soulful creatures from vintage cloth, forgotten buttons and timeworn threads. In this thoughtful conversation, Bryony reflects on the slow magic of her making process, how fabric holds memory, and the quiet bravery of balancing motherhood, art and imagination. Visit our website to view Bryony’s work, explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 19m 02s | ||||||
| 1/8/26 |  From the archives: Marian Jazmik finds beauty in the everyday | Marian Jazmik is a UK-based textile artist known for her inventive mixed media sculptures inspired by nature’s quiet details. In this conversation, Marion shares how retirement became her creative beginning, why texture speaks louder than colour, and how found objects and experimental play underpin her captivating practice. Visit our website to view Marian’s work, explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 1h 18m 27s | ||||||
| 1/1/26 |  From the archives: Olga Radionova sculpts softness and strength | Ukrainian artist Olga Radionova transforms wood, metal and textiles into sculptural works that explore strength, vulnerability and rebirth. From soft sculptures to weapon remnants reborn as flowers, Olga’s practice is both a tactile celebration of material and a profound response to life in a war-torn country. This episode is a powerful meditation on creativity, resilience, and the transformative nature of art. Visit our website to view Olga’s work, explore our courses, or dive into more arti... | 1h 04m 25s | ||||||
| 12/25/25 |  From the archives: Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn listen to land and respond in textile | What does it mean to know a place? For textile artists Dorothy Caldwell and Claire Benn, it begins with walking, listening, collecting – and letting the land leave its mark. In this rare and intimate conversation across three continents, these lifelong artists and friends reflect on pigment, place, and the deep, quiet power of working with cloth, soil, and time. Visit our website to view Dorothy and Claire’s work, explore our courses, or dive into more articles and interviews. | 45m 39s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  From the archives: Sandra Meech stitches landscapes | Canadian-born artist Sandra Meech blends photography, painting, and stitch to tell layered stories of landscape, memory and climate. Drawing from Arctic expeditions and the flooded fields of Somerset, her work reveals what lies beneath – from melting glaciers to ancient ammonites. In this rich conversation, Sandra shares how sketchbooks, digital collage and the natural world continue to guide her evolving textile practice. Visit our website to view Sandra’s work, explore our courses, or dive ... | 1h 38m 05s | ||||||
| 12/12/25 |  From the archives: Sally Hirst turns memory into material | Painter, printmaker and educator Sally Hirst brings a fearless, can-do spirit to her richly layered abstractions. Guided by memory, material and the textures of the urban environment, Sally’s work is an evolving conversation between painting, printmaking and collage. In this lively conversation, she shares how curiosity, risk and repurposing drive her process – and why the best ideas often start with “what if?” Visit our website to view Sally’s work, explore our courses, or dive into more art... | 45m 08s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 |  Lissy and Rudi are crocheting joy | Lissy and Rudi Cole are collaborative fibre artists, visionaries and partners in life and art. Guided by aroha, whakapapa and a bold creative spirit, they transform simple crochet into monumental public artworks. In this intimate episode, the Coles share the story behind their neon-pink whare nui, their soulful creative process, and their deep belief in the power of art to heal, connect and uplift. | 1h 21m 40s | ||||||
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