British textile artist Gizella Warburton discusses her sculptural vessel forms – shadowed, scratched, stitched, bound and burnt into being. Drawing on printed and woven textile training, she describes making as a visceral, intuitive process guided by feel rather than a fixed plan. This conversation explores balance, containment, and how landscape, light and ritual shape a practice built on patience.

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Danish-born textile artist Jette Clover reflects on four decades of art quiltmaking – from curating Europe's first art quilt exhibitions to creating intimate, text-based collages of paper, cloth and paint. Now based in Antwerp, she discusses her daily fifteen-minute collage ritual, her fascination with weathered city walls and handwriting, and the restraint she calls "a little lipstick" – one considered touch of colour amid quiet, layered compositions.

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American collage and installation artist Clare Celeste Börsch, based in Berlin, creates immersive works from found and open-source naturalist illustrations, exploring biodiversity, memory and loss. In this conversation, she traces her evolution from paper collage to large-scale installation, and speaks candidly about motherhood, climate anxiety, and learning to value her work as her practice has grown.

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Kerri Hollingsworth is a fibre artist and furniture upholsterer based in regional Victoria. Surrounded by nature, it finds its way into every piece she makes. In this conversation, Kerry talks about her new course, Threads of Connection – exploring what it means to teach intuition, work with salvaged materials, and trust that creativity is not something you find, but something you unlock.

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Donna Watson is a professional mixed media artist with over 45 years of practice, known for work that explores memory, identity, and the passage of time. In this conversation with Angela Truscott, Donna reflects on two decades of painting for sales before finding her own voice, and shares why helping artists go deeper into who they are has become the most meaningful work of her career.

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Vietnamese–American artist Kenny Nguyen creates sculptural paintings that blur the boundaries between textile, painting and form. Working with torn silk soaked in pigment, his practice explores memory, migration and transformation. In this conversation, Kenny reflects on material sensitivity, cultural identity, and the quiet courage it takes to deconstruct and rebuild – both in art and in life.

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Emily Stubbs is a contemporary British ceramicist based in York, whose vessels begin not with clay, but with paper. Drawing on collage, monoprinting, and an instinct for bold colour and graphic contrast, Emily builds fragmented, layered vessels that are entirely her own. This conversation explores the crossover between two-dimensional thinking and three-dimensional making – and what it means to work with full creative courage.

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Nicola Bennett is a New Zealand painter, galleried artist, and teacher whose abstract work draws from the colours, textures, and sensory pleasures of the edible world. In this conversation, Nicola shares how flavour and felt experience become the doorway into abstract painting – and how repetition, mark making, and a willingness to stay with uncertainty are what ultimately reveal your own unmistakable visual language.

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