Getting Making

Maiko Tsutsumi studied furniture making and Japanese lacquer work in Kyoto before moving to London to study furniture design at the Royal College of Art and later completing her practice based PhD The Poetics of Everyday Objects. After leaving the furniture industry She was course leader role for MA Designer Maker at Camberwell College of Arts, until 2020, alongside making objects, curating e...

Simon Fleury originally trained as a photographer, making and developing physical photographs. He came to conservation incidentally, training on the job and transitioning from technical worker to become a conservator. Simon and I met at Victoria and Albert Museum back in 2018 when I was artist in residence there. Our conversation here is about Simon’s work on exploring the pioneering practices of...

Mariah Nielson’s background as an architect has informed her work as a curator and design historian. She worked as curator at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, (2009–2011) and as director of the JB Blunk Residency (2007–2011). In 2013, she completed an MA in Design History at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Mariah also co-founded the design brand...

Tommaso Corvi-Mora (b. 1969) is artist and gallerist. He opened his first gallery in London in 1995. Corvi-Mora, the gallery, represents a swathe of artists, and creates conceptual links between contemporary art and ceramics, showing works by Sam Bakewell, Shawanda Corbett, Myra Greene and Julian Stair amongst many others. After enrolling in an evening ceramics course in 2009, he quickly discovere...

Jacqueline Winston-Silk is a curator at the Archives & Special Collections Centre, University of the Arts London. She looks after the Camberwell Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) Collection, which is what most of our conversation centres on.  We talk about organising, storing and handling the collection, an unusual selection of design objects, studio pottery and other things origina...

Danielle Thom is a curator, currently at London’s Design Museum, and also a writer, broadcaster and lecturer. She has a dual focus on contemporary craft and design, and eighteenth-century sculpture and decorative arts, and works to locate objects and images in their wider social and cultural contexts.  Amongst other things, we talk about the different approaches to conservation she has come a...

Hello and thanks for tuning in! This is a short introductory episode of my podcast, Getting Making, where I explore how we care for objects. About 5 years ago I started thinking more explicitly about mishaps and care in relation to things. They were both topics which were very present in my practice and research around repair, but seemed to shine through a bit differently to other ideas I found fl...