Mar 23, 2023
This weeks podcast is with the brilliant, Lauren Aston. We met at her home and chatted about how she started out her chunky knit empire, with Craft Festival playing an important role in her starting her business. IAlways good to hear!
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Feb 8, 2023
Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker meets with lecturer, designer and maker Keeley Traae. We met at her home in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK.
Keeley has had a varied and illustrious career in design having worked for ceramic industry giants Wedgewood and Royal Doulton. She set up her own making...
Jan 26, 2023
The Capital of Craft
Sarah James of Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with visual artist, potter, curator and lecturer, Peter Bodenham from St Dogmaels Pottery.
Peter trained in Ceramics and 3D in the mid 1980s at Camberwell School of Art. In the mid 1990s he completed an MA in Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan....
Jan 9, 2023
Season 3 of The Capital of Craft
Sarah James of Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with maker, gallery owner and teacher, Jennifer Collier.
We talk about her practise and how she moved from textiles to paper and how her gallery, Unit Twelve, founded with her partner Iain Perry, has moulded her making life.
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Nov 18, 2022
Welcome to Season 3 of The Capital of Craft.
Earlier in the year at Craft Festival Cheltenham, Sarah James of Craft Festival and Find a Maker interviewed potter and Pottery Throwdown Judge, Keith Brymer Jones in front of a live audience.
We talk about his autobriography "Boy in a China Shop", his Welsh roots and the...