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July 27, 2025

Fuzzy Mall - Having It Large [NX100]

In this 100th episode of NeedleXChange I interview Fuzzy Mall . Fuzzy is a self-taught textile artist celebrated for his huge, detail-rich portraits and installations made entirely from reclaimed fabrics. We talk about how he...

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July 20, 2025

Deborah Simon - Animalistic Abstraction Part 2 [NX099]

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Deborah Simon . Deborah is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and embroiderer known for her hauntingly beautiful bears and rabbits that blend faux fur, taxidermy and anatomy. We talk about...

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July 13, 2025

Deborah Simon - Animalistic Abstraction

In this episode of NeedleXChange, I interview Deborah Simon . Deborah is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and embroiderer known for her hauntingly beautiful bears and rabbits that blend faux fur, taxidermy and anatomy. We talk about...

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July 6, 2025

Holly Searle - Subversive Stitcher Part 2 [NX097]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Holly Searle. Holly is a visual artist who transforms vintage tea towels into striking, subversive works of textile art, In this second part of our NeedleXChange, the conversation ...

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June 29, 2025

Holly Searle - Subversive Stitcher [NX096]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Holly Searle. Holly is a visual artist who transforms vintage tea towels into striking, subversive works of textile art, In the first part of the NeedleXChange, Jamie speaks with v...

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June 22, 2025

Hattie McGill - Cinematic Goldwork Part 2 [NX095]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Hattie McGill . Hattie is an embroidery artist and costume specialist whose goldwork has graced screens from Doctor Strange to Bridgerton. In this second part, Hattie talks about p...

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June 15, 2025

Hattie McGill - Cinematic Goldwork [NX094]

In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview Hattie McGill . Hattie is an embroidery artist and costume specialist whose goldwork has graced screens from Doctor Strange to Bridgerton. In this first part, we explore Hattie’s t...

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June 8, 2025

Niamh Wimperis - Arts & Crafts & Business Part 2 [NX093]

Niamh Wimperis is an embroidery artist and craft entrepreneur known for blending personal experience with traditional needlework techniques.

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June 1, 2025

Niamh Wimperis - Arts & Crafts & Business [NX092]

Niamh Wimperis is an embroidery artist and craft entrepreneur known for blending personal experience with traditional needlework techniques.

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May 25, 2025

Bren Ahearn - Needlework as Witness Part 2 [NX091]

Bren Ahearn is a needlework artist using samplers to unpack masculinity, memory and social conditioning.

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May 18, 2025

Bren Ahearn - Needlework as Witness [NX090]

Bren Ahearn is a needlework artist using samplers to unpack masculinity, memory and social conditioning.

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May 11, 2025

Owen Kelly - Stitching In His Genes Part 2 [NX089]

Owen Kelly is a fifth-generation embroiderer whose vivid, hand-stitched works blend folk art, cultural symbolism, and personal narrative

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May 4, 2025

Owen Kelly - Stitching In His Genes [NX088]

Owen Kelly is a fifth-generation embroiderer whose vivid, hand-stitched works blend folk art, cultural symbolism, and personal narrative

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April 27, 2025

Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art Part 2 [NX087]

Stephanie Kelly Clark is an embroidery artist who turns the quiet beauty of life into stitched stories.

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April 20, 2025

Stephanie Kelly Clark - Life Is Art [NX086]

Stephanie Kelly Clark is an embroidery artist who turns the quiet beauty of life into stitched stories.

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April 13, 2025

Neil Twist - An Ad Hoc Conversation Part 2 [NX085]

Neil Twist is an academic and emerging needleworker.

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April 6, 2025

Neil Twist - An ad hoc conversation [NX084]

Neil Twist is an academic and emerging needleworker.

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March 30, 2025

Sarah Corbett - Live at the Stitch Festival {NX083]

Sarah Corbett is founder of the Craftivist Collective and an advocate for change via gentle activism.

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March 23, 2025

CARO - Weaving Metal and Meaning Part 2 [NX082]

CARO is a multidisciplinary artist who intertwines metalwork and embroidery to explore themes of time, devotion, and material storytelling.

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March 16, 2025

CARO - Weaving Metal and Meaning [NX081]

CARO is a multidisciplinary artist who intertwines metalwork and embroidery to explore themes of time, devotion, and material storytelling.

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March 9, 2025

Vanessa Marr - Domestic Dusters Part 2 [NX080]

Vanessa Marr is an artist and lecturer whose work explores the invisible labour of women through textiles.

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March 3, 2025

Vanessa Marr - Domestic Dusters [NX079]

Vanessa Marr is an artist and lecturer whose work explores the invisible labour of women through textiles.

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Feb. 24, 2025

Rosie James - Worth The Wait Part 2 [NX078]

Rosie James is an artist who captures moments in machine stitch.

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Feb. 17, 2025

Rosie James - Worth The Wait [NX077]

Rosie James is an artist who captures moments in machine stitch.

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