EPISODE TWENTY EIGHT :: Emma Peters - Permission to Make Mistakes & Teaching from an Honest Place

Summary: In Episode 28, I speak to Emma Peters, a textile artist and lecturer based in Sydney. Emma is a textile artist and lecturer based in Sydney. We chat about emma’s childhood and her strong tactile and olfactory memories of textiles as a child on the wool farm with her family. Emma has spent the last few years exploring wet felting and has incorporated this into her personal and professional work. We speak about how Emma has processed her life experiences through her work, sometimes unconsciously and we discuss how powerful fibre as a medium can be. As a lecturer in a university setting, Emma brings her whole self to the classroom and is encouraging of her students to explore many elements of themselves in their work with fibre. We speak about the necessity of bringing and acknowledging the role of self in research and talk about the ways in which spaces displaying art can facilitate safe space for truth telling about ourselves. Show notes for this episode are available at closeknit.com.au/podcast/episode28. Special thanks to this week's episode sponsor: 100 Acts of Sewing. You can find 100 Acts of sewing on etsy and instagram @sonyaphilip.