Charlotte Cameron, Knitwear Editor for Knitting Industry Creative interviews Freddie Robins (portrait: Sophie Mutevelian/Crafts Council).

Read interview here

Read designer, Donna Wilson’s, blog post about the Tormented Textiles panel discussion, where she was joined by Freddie Robins and contemporary craft expert, Martina Margetts, for a panel discussion on the trials and tribulations of living a creative life.

You can listen to the conversation and Q&A session on Soundcloud via the link below.

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Freddie Robins will be joined by contemporary craft expert Martina Margetts and designer Donna Wilson to discuss the trials and tribulations of living a creative life.

They will talk about the role of risk in creativity, what happens when you lose your spark, and what keeps you going, and will consider the intersection of craft and commercialism.

The discussion will last for around 50-60 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A session.

Refreshments will be provided.

Wednesday 19 September 2018
From 6.00pm

Donna Wilson Pop-up Shop
32 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3PB

The event is free but booking is essential.
Book here

This event is part of Donna Wilson’s 15th year celebration at London Design Festival.

M100, Exhibition Centre for Contemporary Art
Søndergade 26
5000 Odense
Denmark

Opening Friday 7 September 2018
Artists’ talk at 16:00, followed by exhibition opening from 17:00-19:00

M100 opening times:
Thursday 16:00-20:00
Saturday & Sunday 13:00-16:00

Resistant Materials is an exhibition about how to live out of the centre, outside a framework of mutual endeavour and shared values.
The view of landscape from the city is very different from living in it. Being here in Essex there is not all that much romance. Here in this landscape it is mainly by turns muddy or dusty. It is dark. I become overwhelmed by colours. The birds are staggeringly loud. There is never quiet. A strimmer or chainsaw is always struggling to carve a clear space. This land is resistant. It bites and stings, catches at your clothes, and obstructs you at every turn.

All four artists in the exhibition work with stuff, actual physical things produced with skill and craft.
I very much like physical material because it is uncompromisingly visual. I am naturally distrustful of text and words, of theory. I like action.

Curated by Ben Coode-Adams/Blackwater Polytechnic
The exhibiting artists are Ben Coode-Adams, Fiona Curran, Justin Knopp and Freddie Robins

M100

Guest edited by Paris Essex, the latest issue of Cent digital magazine features an interview with Freddie Robins alongside American artist, Sam Barsky.

“We have admired Sam Barsky from afar for a long while and Freddie has been a great friend of ours since college days. Both use knitting as an art-form and we can see connections between them but come from very different backgrounds, hear from them both below.” Paris Essex

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