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063.. HELLE JORGENSEN

24/5/2022

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​I live in Upper Duroby, northern NSW, a small rural community.
 
“My studio overlooks the garden, is very quiet, contains all my tools, materials and books. It’s the place I go to when I wake up, with a cup of tea and fills me with 
excitement at the thought of possibilities.”
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​CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT...
​Crochet hooks
Sketchbook
Pencils
Big long table
Internet

HELLE'S SOCIAL MEDIA

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062.. JAN MELVILLE

24/5/2022

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I live in Katoomba in The Blue Mountains in New South Wales. An inspiring place to work.
 
My studio space is in my house
 I use my long studio table for cutting, gluing and mixed media
 My bench top holds a variety of paints, pencils and brushes all in use.  Studio assistant is Macavity the cat
 
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CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT...
​Imagination
Music
A glass of wine
Macavity the Studio Cat
Books and magazines
Mixed media tools

JAN'S SOCIAL MEDIA
FIBRE ARTS WORKSHOP    FACEBOOK     WEBSITE
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061.. MANDY PATTULLO

16/5/2022

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Where I live;  Northumberland, UK
 
​I live in the middle of a city but my studio is within a small arts centre in a lush valley in Northumberland. I love being surrounded by other artists making things in their spaces and within my own studio my own vintage materials for my collages.
 
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CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT..
​Ipad
Unpicker
A big pile of old quilts
Danish flower threads
Time alone

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060.. claudia lee

16/5/2022

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I’m located in Liberty, Tennessee, USA
 
​My studio, Liberty Paper, is both a working and teaching facility located in a beautiful hollow in Middle Tennessee.

 It is made up of two buildings connected by a breezeway which provides covered outside space that’s great for cooking fibers and dying. Papermaking happens both inside and out. 
Visitor’s welcome!
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Can't live without..
1. My Hollander beater
2. My Library
3. My collection of waxed linen in every color
4. My photography set-up

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WEBSITE   PINTEREST   FACEBOOK   INSTAGRAM
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058..RUTH WOODS

5/4/2022

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I live in the Yarra Valley, Victoria
 
My space takes up about a third of the house.
I have two rooms, one where I work with textiles and the other I make baskets, sculpture and store plant fibre.
​I’m also lucky to have an outside space where I boil up pots and create natural dyes for fabric and raffia.
 
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Can't live without...
​60 year old industrial Singer sewing machine
My laptop and phone
My stash of fabrics and threads
My garden that supplies me with much plant fibre to weave with

Ruth's Social Media..
WEBSITE    FACEBOOK   INSTAGRAM
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057.. Crystal Marie

3/4/2022

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I'm in the far North suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
My studio, the second floor of my home, is the place I feel most connected to myself.
It is a visual representation of my inner world, eclectic in style.
It is home to childhood mementos, favoured collections, and artwork made by my own hands and those gifted to me over the years.

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Can't live without...
  • My favorite adhesive blend
  • A notebook and pen 
  • My tripod and cell phone for recording classes
  • A comfortable chair, too large for my workspace
  • Plenty of table top space to work

Crystal's social media..
WEBSITE   INSTAGRAM   FACEBOOK   FACEBOOK GROUP
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056.. beatrijs van reeden

3/4/2022

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In 2008 me and my family moved back from a couple of years living in France.
Back to the Netherlands, and to the outskirts on the south of Rotterdam.
Here we bought a house and after a couple of years we added a larger attic for me to work in.
Where at first it was still quite open, it has grown fuller in time.
​My husband likes to work wood in his spare time, and my younger daughter has started to make small objects in clay as well.
So my studio space has evolved into a very multifunctional space.
As I work in porcelain mostly in my studio, my crochet work I will do either in the garden or in the living room, but of course I keep my porcelain and crochet work and materials in my studio as you can see.
 
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Can't live without...
​Mental space and Time
Porcelain and cotton thread.
My gas kiln
My crochet needles
Books
My garden to sit in.

Beatrijs's social media
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055.. Susan fell

3/4/2022

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EDITOR: As you read, Susan has been a victim of the floods in Northern NSW... many artists have lost treasured pieces including huge losses at the Lismore Regional Art Gallery and other independant Galleries in that part of the flood ravaged areas.
Fibre Arts Australia's CEO Glenys Mann is raising monies at the April event in Ballarat.
​We cannot support all of the affect areas but doing as much as we can for the community of Tumbulgum, that has been affected.
More about the monies raised in later news! Glenys Mann.
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I live in Mullumbimby, Northern Rivers NSW 
These images are not very attractive but this is my studio right now.
 I have a small space attached to my house where I create beautiful natural dyed wearables and accessories, stitched artworks and shibori sculptures. My studio is also where I mentor younger textile artists.  
Hard to reconcile the extremes of beautiful clean silk, luscious soft wool and fine stitching with destruction of intense roughness of extreme weather,  all in the one place.  
This is Climate Change in action. 
Endless heavy rain pelted down over the weekend on Feb28 /March 1/2. 
Stinky muddy water inundated both my home and studio.  
Water rushed into the studio and toppled everything over, and filled things with dirty water and dumping a layer of mud about 7cm deep  
Had little visitor wander in to investigate the mud layer  
This morning in my emergency accomodation in Byron Bay, I am experiencing the second inundation of water in a month.
My car is swamped again and I cant get out. 
At least I have stitching I can do for the next few hours till the water recedes and I can return to Mullum to check the water level, check if all the cleaning has to be done all over again.
Ironically I’m currently working on a rivers stitching series - the beautiful Brunswick River as it slides through Mullumbimby making a headlong dash towards the sea.  
 
Not much creativity this month.
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Can't live without...
Having thrown out so much mud covered equipment and materials from my studio onto the flood damage pile on my front nature strip, over the last month, I’ve been reassessing what I can, actually, now do without
 
But I cant live without 
My Bernini
Eucalyptus leaves, and leaves from the hinterland subtropical rainforest
My 80 L pot with its space blanket for long slow warm dyeing
My professional library of books for various research and writing 
Good needles and stork scissors
 

Susan's social media
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054.. carol meese

27/3/2022

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I live outside of Richmond, Virginia, USA.
 
My studio was built by my son in my back yard.
I can work in my pyjamas when it snows!
It is a dream come true with the space and light.
North facing windows and high walls enable large paintings and hung fibre work.
​I am blessed to have this space.
 
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Can't live without...
​Air and space
Good light
High walls
Paint and cloth
All Classical Portland
My imagination 

 Carol's Social Media..​
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053.. CAS HOLMES

27/3/2022

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​I live in Maidstone in Kent referred to as the 'Garden of England' (at least the bits not subsumed by motorways and roads.)
 
I work all over the house, sitting in the garden to stitch in the warmer days and the garden space, where I do most of my wet work, was formerly my partner Derek's shed which he lovingly converted for me a few years back. In winter I cosy up more in the house. Everything in it from the tables to the cupboards are either found or created made from reclaimed materials, as is my work. 
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​The inspiration from and connection I have with the garden and local outside spaces.
A fabulous vintage Bernina 730 sewing machine.in found in a skip (dumpster)
Sketchbooks and tool to make my marks and reflect upon
My Favourite bench in the warm months and a cuppa.
Friendship and exchange with others and with Derek

Cas's Social Media..
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    Over the next few months there will be an email come into your box on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.
    It will be an artist’s studio.. a sanctuary for a creative.. with a short comment from the artist and things that they could not live without.
    Links will lead you to the workshop page where these creatives will teach for
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    Another initiative to keep us in touch from the Fibre Arts Team.
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