The Capital of Craft Podcast | Dr Kate Strasdin
The Capital of Craft
The Capital of Craft LIVE from Cheltenham Town Hall: Bonus Podcast As a bonus podcast, listen to Sarah James MBE talk to Dr Kate Strasdin about her critically and commercially successful latest non-fiction book, The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. The book is investagative journalism meets fashion and social history and is a brilliant read. Sarah and Kate talks about the fascinating story of how she found the diary and the lengths she went to to piece together the life and times of Mrs Anne Sykes. Dr Kate Strasdin is a senior lecturer at , where she teaches contextual studies...
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Keith Brymer-Jones
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The Capital of Craft with Keith Brymer-Jones and Marj Hogarth. To celebrate the end of our good friend, Keith Brymer-Jones', storming national tour, we are releasing a podcast to end Season 3 of The Capital of Craft. Recorded live earlier this year at Craft Festival Cheltenham at the Town Hall, Keith is in conversation with his partner Marj Hogarth, talking in great depth, with humour and poignancy about his life, growing up in London to Welsh parents. Becoming (as well as a dancer and singer) an accomplished and prolific potter, before being "discovered" by Love Productions and asked to...
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Sue Pryke
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Recorded Live at Craft Festival Cheltenham March 2023 The Capital of Craft Podcast with Sue Pryke Sue Pryke is an award winning homeware designer and ceramicist with over three decades of experience. Sue talks with me, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker infront of a live audience at Craft Festival Cheltenham at the Town Hall in March 2023. Sound qaulity reflects a live setting. We talk about Sue’s work and her new book, Design and Create Contemporary Tableware, which is co-authored by Linda Bloomfield. She has a wealth of experience lecturing, delivering design in both...
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The Capital of Craft | Hilary Burns MBE
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Our latest podcast features the brilliant basketmaker, Hilary Burns MBE. Hilary is one of the UK's most respected makers. Recipient of Heritage Crafts Maker of the Year in 2018, she was also awarded MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021, in recognition of her dedication to her craft. She talks with me, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker from her Devon home. We talk about her earliest memories of making and what keeps her exploring the possibilities of creativity. Hilary has been curating one of our most loved features at Craft Festival, Out of the Woods, for a number...
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Lauren Aston
The Capital of Craft
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! You can follow us on Instagram You can watch our films on You follow us on Facebook You can follow Lauren Aston on Instagram
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Keeley Traae
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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 practise, Keeley Traae Design in 2020. She has extensive experience in ceramic design, design management and evaluating market trends. In her own practise, she is now known for her dististictive use of colour and shape, specialising in 3D Printing techniques. Keeley...
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Peter Bodenham from St Dogmaels Pottery
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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. Peter lives near Cardigan and runs St.Dogmaels Pottery in West Wales. He is an experienced educator having worked with a number of UK Universities. Informing and framing his ceramic practice are a range of sources including the processes of walking the coast, swimming along...
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Jennifer Collier
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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. Paper pioneer, Jennifer Collier, creates exquisite sculptures from vintage recycled materials in conjunction with stitch; a contemporary twist on traditional textiles. The papers serve as both the inspiration and the media for the work, with the narrative suggesting the forms....
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Becky Prior from Prior Made
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Season 3 of The Capital of Craft Sarah James of Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with maker and shop owner, Becky Prior. They speak from her shop, Prior in Cabots Circus in Bristol. Becky's journey as a maker is interwoven with stories of overcoming great personal setbacks and is truly inspirational, told with great humanity and humour. @priorshopbristol @priormade @craftfestival @find.amaker
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The Capital of Craft Podcast | Keith Brymer Jones
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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 journey from Highgate to becoming a treasured TV Potter. We'll be opening the doors of Craft Festival Cheltenham on Saturday November 26-27th. Next March, Keith will be joining us again at Craft Festival at Cheltenham Town Hall. @keithbrymerjones @craftfestival...
info_outlineIn our latest episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah from Craft Festival talks to potter, Arwyn Jones.
Based in Modbury in Devon, Sarah and Arwyn talk about how he was introduced to clay, his career in cricket and how the repetitive nature of throwing pots keeps him sane.
Arwyn is a member of the Devon Guild and a regular exhibitor at Craft Festival in Bovey Tracey.
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