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My studio is in a heritage listed series of terraces in a former military site in Mosman. It’s the sunny corner suite facing north east that looks over the bushland and Sydney harbour. It’s vital to my work (and wellbeing) to be in a space that is closely connected to nature. The double French doors that open on to a verandah, grass and bushland. I use this outside space to do messy work, or just sit and watch the kookaburras and magpies and enjoy the view. The two large Bunnings trestle tables. Not glamourous, but it means I can easily configure them depending on what I’m weaving and it doesn’t matter if I mark them. The light from the large windows which link me to outside, provides nature light on my work and also means I can sit and weave in the afternoon winter sun.      Can't live without... I have very few tools (just my hands) but I do need my secateurs and small wire cutters and bent nose pliers. My thermos filled with organic peppermint tea.
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I live in Smithville, Tennessee - a rural town on Center Hill Lake, 1 ¼ hours east of Nashville, Tennessee. My studios – a printing room and sewing space - are situated within my home (I haven’t taken over the entire house… yet)! The spaces are intimate yet fully functional; and when I am not gardening or cooking, they are where I happily spend my day. I screen print and relief block print on fabric, specializing in distinctive textiles for daily use: cooking & garden/craft aprons, flour sack towels, potholder and buffet napkin sets, bandanas, and infinity scarves. Both studios are critical to what I create. The print studio looks out on my veggie and flower garden where much of my design inspirations originate. It accommodates one padded print table, storage for my silk screens & squeegees, printing blocks and cutting tools, textile pigments, sink, essential tools, and gardening “stuff.” My sewing space, once a spare bedroom, houses yards of fabric, a Serger, my grandmother’s 1941 Singer featherweight sewing machine, cutting table, rotary iron, copious tools, and thread.     Can't live without.. Padded print table Silkscreens, print blocks & cutting tools Windows and doors to look out at my gardens Miele rotary iron My 1941 Singer sewing machine Victorinox fabric scissors (they NEVER touch anything but fabric) I live in the tiny village of Rhydycroesau - right on the Shropshire (England) - Powys (Wales) border The peace is only broken in my studio by the trickle of the river running through my garden which defines the border between England and Wales - well, that and the occasional tractor! I love the light here, and its been a haven since the pandemic for me to create my work.     Can't live without... Podcasts and my trusty speaker Coffee Sunlight! I live on the 29th floor of a skyscraper in New York City That is also where I work. I have one room dedicated as my studio and have learned to become super organized so that there is a place for everything. It is the space I happily spend the most time in.      Can't live without.... My inspiration wall My gel plate My paints and inks My drawers of papers, fibers, embellishments and found objects My computer My planner and journals Light I live in the middle of the United States, in Champaign, Illinois, south of Chicago by about 2 hours. My studio is on the fifth and top floor of the Lincoln Building in the downtown area of our small town. My large windows bring in the soft northern light. I walk to and from my studio a little over a mile each way, a welcome transition into my practice.      Can't live without... strings of every kind, my two favourite pairs of scissors, abundant light, blacking pencils small sketchbooks my comfy chair I live in Mexico.. I just finished building my studio, there's a lot of things missing and constantly changing, the configuration changes depending on the material and size of the pieces that I am working on. I have many tables and I think I need more. Space is important in how we perceive sculpture / installations. There is a part to work with aerosols separated from the main one and another that overlooks an outdoor patio and I have a lot of sunlight all day long.      I can't live without... Laptop is my main tool to start developing my work. Felt bobbins, scissors, threads, needles, laces, head lamp. My two Dogs Dachshund ( Chuck and Bruce) Music and Coffee Jacobo is a finalist in the INTERNATIONAL ART TEXTILE BIENNALE 2023 You can read more here.... I live in Smithville, Tennessee - a rural town on Center Hill Lake, 1 ¼ hours east of Nashville, Tennessee. My studios – a printing room and sewing space - are situated within my home (I haven’t taken over the entire house… yet)! The spaces are intimate yet fully functional; and when I am not gardening or cooking, they are where I happily spend my day. I screen print and relief block print on fabric, specializing in distinctive textiles for daily use: cooking & garden/craft aprons, flour sack towels, potholder and buffet napkin sets, bandanas, and infinity scarves. Both studios are critical to what I create. The print studio looks out on my veggie and flower garden where much of my design inspirations originate. It accommodates one padded print table, storage for my silk screens & squeegees, printing blocks and cutting tools, textile pigments, sink, essential tools, and gardening “stuff.” My sewing space, once a spare bedroom, houses yards of fabric, a Serger, my grandmother’s 1941 Singer featherweight sewing machine, cutting table, rotary iron, copious tools, and thread.  Can't live without.. Padded print table Silkscreens, print blocks & cutting tools Windows and doors to look out at my gardens Miele rotary iron My 1941 Singer sewing machine Victorinox fabric scissors (they NEVER touch anything but fabric) I live in an old Edwardian bank on the North Essex Coast in the UK, the living accommodation is above the studios. am lucky enough to have a wealth of well-lit space: A large banking hall where we run classes and then two separate dedicated studios for my own work. My Husband has a studio the other end of our building which makes for a successful and happy relationship as we “eat, sleep and breath” our creative business.       CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT... Sewing machine and darning foot Copious amounts of photographic reference Most Vlieseline products known to man My trusty studios companions Ooops and of course Nigel partner in all things!!!! I live in Lower Plenty, in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Our street is lined with gum trees and my studio is constantly filled with the sounds of magpies and rosellas. 12 months ago I was lucky enough to have been able to convert our double garage into a beautiful, light-filled studio. I basically live in this room, surrounded by my work, half-formed ideas, various tools and tech and of course fabric and threads. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Robyn is a finalist in the International Art Textile Biennale 2023 currently on tour... see her artist statement here)      Can't live without... Longarm quilting machine Laser cutter All my tech- laptop, ipad, apple pencil… Threads, threads and more threads Supply of wood Constant coffee supply Lots of natural light I’m a papermaker and paper artist living on Dharawal country within the Royal National Park in Sydney. My studio is downstairs under the house looking out into the garden and bushland with glimpses and sounds of the sea. It’s a purpose-built, functional quiet space with kitchen, bathroom and natural light, routinely visited by native birds and animals, and where my greyhound roaches on her bed while I work. I’ve furnished this space with cherished pieces of old and new equipment necessary for the traditional craft of western papermaking, some foraged, some custom made, some with the memory and meaning of family inheritance. My studio operates as the ‘wet area’ where papermaking and natural dyeing happens fed by water from my rainwater tank. As a horticulturist I also grow some native dye plants like banksia, angophora and native indigo, and sometimes cotton and linen for fibre, which along with my stock of fleeces I spin, weave, and knit in the ‘dry area’ of my house upstairs. I’m in love with organic fibres - plants for paper and dyes, wool from sheep - and like to imagine my studio space is the smallest sustainable traditional paper mill in Australia.    
   Can't live without... antique English press hollander beater my mother’s 1930s imperial kitchen scales moulds and deckles papermakers drying racks my splattered old kauri farm kitchen work table collection of old cooking pots portable hotplate for natural dyeing and cooking fibres on the studio deck my family’s old bone knives for printmaking and general use my brother-in-law’s old dental tools, same my nest collection mortar and pestle for grinding ochres Classic FM bird song plants - their beauty, fibres and dyes. |
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