Friday Feature Artist

Rhode Island collage artist and printmaker Sarah Z Short gives discarded books and paper ephemera a second life. Printing with vintage wooden type chosen for its shape rather than its words, she cuts and layers rescued pages into bold, abstract compositions. This conversation explores working with repurposed materials, building from the grid, and the happy accident that sparked her boro-inspired series.

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What happens when we let go of perfection and give ourselves permission to experiment?

Join Angela and ceramic artist Juz Kitson as they explore creative reinvention, impermanence and the joy of breaking the rules.

From extraordinary sculptural installations to her new online course, Curious Matter, Juz shares how curiosity can shake up your practice, alongside practical insights into what students can expect.

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New York City based mixed media artist, instructor, author and designer Seth Apter shares how a chance gallery visit and years of handmade mail art turned a psychologist into a full-time artist. Known for richly layered, textural work built from thread, found objects and vintage ephemera, Seth reflects on community, creative generosity, and why every artist is always one layer away from magic.

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Croatian-born, Chicago-based artist Ana Zanic embraces watercolour as a spontaneous, layered practice built from washes, drawn marks and a loose, improvisational hand. Her series, including Migration, made around her US citizenship, explore movement, memory and identity. In this conversation, Ana talks about accidental burn marks discovered with her son, working at scale, and how becoming a mother led her, unexpectedly, into ceramics.

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Congolese-born, Cape Town-based artist Patrick Bongoy transforms reclaimed rubber inner tubes into intricately woven sculptures confronting histories of extraction, displacement and survival. A 2024 LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize finalist now representing the DRC at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Patrick reflects on his family's early resistance to his path, the enduring legacy of Congo's rubber trade, and how ritual and spirituality shape his practice.

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French Canadian textile artist Catherine-Marie Longtin, based in South London, builds quilts and stretched fabric artworks from collected linens and solids, favouring analogous colour and hand-pieced geometry over pattern and print. A former academic, she left that career in 2008 and has just published a book exploring 100 variations of the traditional log cabin block. In this conversation, Catherine reflects on breaking quilting's unwritten rules, trusting colour instinct, and building a long project one block at a time.

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Dutch, London-based artist Anne von Freyburg creates large-scale textile paintings that reimagine Rococo portraiture in hand-sewn tapestry, sequins and PVC fabric. In this conversation, she unpacks the hierarchy between painting and textile, why pleasure and excess are acts of resistance, and the six-month process behind her recent Saatchi Gallery installation. Anne also previews Pleasure Garden, her upcoming solo show with HOFA Gallery.

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Melbourne-based repair artist Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald mends clothes with visible, playful stitching that turns holes into design features rather than flaws. Once called "a tattoo artist for clothes," she teaches darning and mending and is the author of her book Modern Mending, now in its third printing. In this conversation, Erin shares stories of sentimental repairs, the philosophy of "beautiful and bonkers," and why there are more holes.

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Austin, Texas-based textile artist Irene Roderick creates bold, improvisational quilts, building each piece outward from a single scrap of fabric pinned to her design wall. After decades as a painter, she discovered quilting at 66 and never looked back, developing her signature Dancing With the Wall method. In this conversation, Irene reflects on identity, resilience after a health crisis that took her creativity away, and her recent return to painting.

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Memphis-based fiber artist Paula Kovarik creates layered quilted and sculptural works by cutting up her own quilts and repurposing them as raw material. Her practice channels memory, politics and the news cycle into stitch and line, favouring process over finished product. In this conversation, she reflects on her evolving 3D work, a recent Japan residency, and the day she took a chainsaw to a piece in protest.

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