Material Matters – The new podcast devoted to all things making

By: mintshop

12-02-2019

Material Matters – The new podcast devoted to all things making

British design writer and critic Grant Gibson has published a series of podcasts. Over the course of six 30-minute interviews, Gibson talks to different designers, artists and makers about their relationship to a particular material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked.

Series one of Material Matters is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms, free of charge. Don’t miss out!

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Material Matters – Textiles by Celia Pym

Series one of Material Matters features: potter Edmund de Waal on porcelain; artist Celia Pym on textiles; wood turner Eleanor Lakelin on timber; designer Bill Amberg on leather; and Peter Layton on glass. Meanwhile in a special bonus recording Gibson talks to New York-based curator and critic Glenn Adamson about his new book Fewer Better Things, which focuses on material intelligence in the digital age.

I’m delighted with the line-up that we’ve put together for the first series of Material Matters,” says Gibson. “The idea is simple really. We’ve interviewed makers and designers from different disciplines, working in a range of materials, to find out a little more about them. Some – like Edmund de Waal and Bill Amberg – are already internationally renowned, while others such as Celia Pym and Eleanor Lakelin are hugely talented and on the cusp of building a significant following. I think it was important too that we met them on their home turf, rather than dragging them into a studio. It means that listeners hear a compressor go off in the middle of my chat with Eleanor, for example, and are even introduced to Edmund’s dog.”

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