Pattern : Dawn Frasier – midC tiki love

surface design

Dawn Frasier has an obsession. It seems she went to the travel agency in 1962 to get a ticket to Hawaii, and never quite managed to return in one piece. Her surface designs and paintings are littered with tiki and tapa, and western-style interpretations of shields,...

Craft : Ruth Singer – textile artist

the crafted object

  Ruth Singer is another maker who started early, crafting things in her Dad’s shed. (There must be something about that experience…) Ruth Singer wears many hats wonderfully. She is a maker of beautiful objects, a writer, an historian, runs workshops,...

Craft : Cathy Cullis – textiles & mixed media

the crafted object

  Cathy Cullis is a painter, a poet, a maker. Chameleon-like, she shifts mediums with astonishing ease and rapidity. But what doesn’t change about her is her sense of the nostalgic, of gentle melancholy and mystery. Having studied both English and Art at...

Textile design : Bird Textiles – sustainable and beautiful

surface design, the crafted object

  Rachel Bending is the creative force behind Bird Textiles, and is a pioneer in environmentally conscious and sustainable work practices. Originally from the UK, she studied textile design at the famous Glasgow School of Art in the 1990s, and then emigrated to...

Tamara Schneider – FW Textiles

surface design, the crafted object

Funky Wombat Textiles is Tamara Schneider. A graduate of both the Whitehouse School of Fashion Design and the RMIT School of Fashion and Textiles, she then went on to complete an internship with the fabulous Timorous Beasties in the UK (and you seriously need to check...