Hello! This is Maddie Rose Hills, host of The Mater Podcast.

This week's episode is a little different, and a lot shorter!

I have just got back from a week-long Research Residency at West Dean School of Arts, Craft, Design and Conservation. What is a research residency? Well it can really be anything - but for me it meant wandering around the school, meeting people from lots of different departments, and talking with them about what attracted them to the craft and materials that they were studying or teaching. I wrote a diary while down there and have put together a selection of the thoughts here.

This text can be read on the Mater website: https://mater.digital/stories/a-research-residency-at-west-dean/

Or listened to here on the podcast platform

I will also share more images on the Mater Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mater________/?hl=en

Find out more about West Dean: https://www.westdean.ac.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/westdeancollege/?hl=en

West Dean Fine Art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/westdeanfineart/?hl=en

More about West Dean: 'Our schools of arts, design and conservation offer a uniquely broad range of world-leading courses. At the heart of all we do, is our belief that 'making' makes our lives better. We celebrate the intrinsic value of work that has been hand-made by artists and artisans, and challenge the assumption that mass-produced must be the only way because, across the world, the maker movement is growing.'

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