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Making Meaning is a podcast exploring the meaning behind what we make. Artist Ruth Singer talks to creative people about why they make and create. Ruth loves finding out how artists, writers, coaches, researchers and others use challenging and complex stories within their work. She is interested in what matters to them and why they choose to create what they do. Ruth Singer has been making textile art professionally for 18 years and before that worked in the museum sector and has wide ranging interests in all kinds of creative practice. Words are really important to her; she writes books, shares a lot of her work online and loves talking about creative practice to other people who get it. Ruth also works as a mentor to artists and creative businesses and is always learning about what drives creative people to make interesting and complex things.
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- Sep 26, 202651 min
#68: Material Histories, Making in the Home with Deborah McGuire
In this episode we are talking about what it means to work from the home, to work alongside domestic life and how that worked for women makers in the past. We both share our very different experiences of home / work life and how our domestic environment impacts the creative choices we make. Buy Tangled here Maker Membership: Maker Membership Please join my email list for more: Email
- Sep 12, 202644 min
#67: Tangled - Textile Stories of Care & Connection
In August I launched my new self-published book Tangled. It's been a long journey from idea in 2018 to finally having the books in my hands in 2026. In this episode I'll read extracts from the book, explain how it came about and respond to some questions asked in my online and in-person book launches about my work, the book and the making of it. Buy Tangled here Maker Membership: Maker Membership Please join my email list for more: Email
- Aug 22, 202657 min
#66: Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire. In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging conversation starting with what we look for in quilt shows but covers far more than that. We talk about the power of connecting through making and about showing and sharing textile works. Maker Membership: Maker Membership Please join my email list for more: Email
- Aug 1, 20261h 2m
#65: 21 Years
This week I reflect on 21 years working as an artist and writer. (Oops, I realised after I recorded this that I talk about it being episode 64, when in fact it's episode 65!) Tangled is available for pre-order now: Tangled: Textile Stories of Care & Connection Maker Membership: Maker Membership Please join my email list for more: Email
- Jul 18, 202637 min
#64: Where Do I Get My Ideas From?
I have been asked about my ideas and where they come from more than anything else in my 21 year career (although "How long did it take to make?" must be a close second). It's really hard for me to define where each idea came from but I've given it a go in this podcast. Tangled is available for pre-order now: Tangled: Textile Stories of Care & Connection Maker Membership Maker Membership Please join my email list for more https://ruthsinger.com/email/
- Jun 13, 202648 min
#63: Introducing Material Histories with Deb McGuire
Making Histories is a new mini-series of Making Meaning Podcast with special guest co-host Deb McGuire. Deb is a brilliant historian, specialising in emotional histories of quilting, but she's incredibly knowledgable about all kinds of things. We have so many overlapping interests and things we really want to talk about in the world of textile making, textile histories and human stories. I've been thinking about a podcast co-host for a while, and when I talked to Deb for episodes 48 and 49, I just wanted to carry on talking! So we've made that a formal arrangement now and I am delighted to share the first episode of our conversations. I absolutely love talking to Deb and I am sure you will enjoy it too. In this episode we talk about the things we are both working on at the moment, the narratives and research we are each exploring and where they cross over in a project about hands and making. Find out more about my Maker Membership Join my email list Visit my website Find out more about Deb's work: www.plainstitch.co.uk www.withintheframe.co.uk Instagram.com/plainstitchdeb
- May 30, 202632 min
#62: Reading & Writing
A few weeks ago someone told me that she didn't know I had written several books, so I realised I don't talk enough about my writing! The podcast is about the writing of those books; three with traditional publishers and three self-published books about my work. The third self-published book is coming very soon, it is with the designer now and I hope to have it in my hands before the end of the summer. I've also written other exhibition catalogues and project publications and all kinds of things. Find out more about my Textile Book Group and more: https://ruthsinger.podia.com/ Buy publications: https://ruthsingerstudio.bigcartel.com Find out more about my Maker Membership Buy an exhibition catalogue, Lost Threads, Mary Linwood's Legacy Join my email list Visit my website
- Apr 22, 202652 min
#61: Accomplishments and Imagined Mementoes
This week's episode is about the new body of work I made for Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Lift exhibition. Alongside researching, curating and writing the first exhibition of Mary Linwood's work in 75 year, I also created seven new artworks reflecting elements of Mary Linwood's life and legacy. These pieces fill in gaps in Mary Linwood's story, explore themes I find fascinating and allow me to express my own thoughts and feelings about Linwood's work and life. Sign up for my course Embroidered Herstories: Rediscovering Mary Linwood Buy the exhibition catalogue, Lost Threads, Mary Linwood's Legacy Find out more about my Maker Membership Join Ruth's email list Visit Ruth's website
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About Making Meaning
Making Meaning is a podcast exploring the meaning behind what we make. Artist Ruth Singer talks to creative people about why they make and create. Ruth loves finding out how artists, writers, coaches, researchers and others use challenging and complex stories within their work. She is interested in what matters to them and why they choose to create what they do. Ruth Singer has been making textile art professionally for 18 years and before that worked in the museum sector and has wide ranging interests in all kinds of creative practice. Words are really important to her; she writes books, shares a lot of her work online and loves talking about creative practice to other people who get it. Ruth also works as a mentor to artists and creative businesses and is always learning about what drives creative people to make interesting and complex things.
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