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Unpaused the Podcast
Hosted by Judith Stewart · EN
Judy Stewart brings you a new season of Unpaused—stories of women who create with their
hands and transform their lives in the process.
Unpaused is back—and it’s taking a bold new direction.
This season, Judy Stewart steps into the creative world of women who have left behind their
careers and found a new calling through making.
// Hosted by Judy Stewart
Seasons 1-7 Produced by Leonie Marsh
Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen (S1-6) and Jason Millhouse //
Instagram: @_unpaused
Website: www.unpaused.net
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S8, Ep 54 - Polly Leonard: Founder of Selvedge Magazine
Sep 1700:26:13Tap to summarizePolly Leonard is the founder of Selvedge, the world’s leading magazine about the culture of cloth. It’s a one-word cipher about textiles with a cultural edge, who makes them, and how. Polly talks to Judy about why she believes cloth is central to civilisation; she says “fibre may look like fluff, but it carries the weight of human history”. She shares the steps on her creative journey - starting with her art student days in Glasgow and New York - and her relentless pursuit of the highest standards. The pair also discuss the tension between making on one hand and disposable, fast fashion on the other, and why Polly believes art and craft should be a more valued part of the school curriculum.And for those who don’t already know, Polly will reveal what the selvedge on a piece of fabric is!Show Noteswww.selvedge.org@selvedgemagazine// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse// Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S8, Ep 53 - Elena Goded Rimbaud: ÁBBATTE - reviving Spain’s textile heritage
Aug 2000:25:46Tap to summarizeJudy enters the monastic world of ÁBBATTE, where traditional Spanish artisanal techniques are used to create exquisite handwoven textiles. Project founder Elena Goded Rimbaud talks about transforming the ruins of a 13th century monastery in Segovia into the ÁBBATTE workshop and reviving the region’s handmade textile traditions there. Then, speaking from ÁBBATTE’s Madrid store, Elena describes the pieces they make - alpaca wool throws, textured carpets and silk scarves - in colours rendered with botanic dyes from the magical ÁBBATTE garden. Working alongside her art director daughter, Elena says ÁBBATTE strives to create textiles with a contemporary aesthetic while being grounded in the techniques of the past.Show Noteshttps://www.abbatte.com@abbatte_ // Hosted by Judy Stewart // Translation by Marcella EchevarriaProduced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse// Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S8, Ep 52 - Ruth Ribeaucourt: A Creative Collaboration with Antoinette Poisson
May 14, 202500:27:24Tap to summarizePhotographer and magazine founder, Ruth Ribeaucourt, talks to Judy about her creative collaboration with cult French interiors and homewares brand, Antoinette Poisson. After photographing ‘A Year in the French Style’ for the brand’s founders, Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin, Ruth was invited to collaborate with them a second time on a range of wallpapers and fabrics, based on their shared love of historic French textiles and patterns. Ruth recounts how visiting flea markets and collecting antique textiles as a novice collector, first helped her to learn the language and assimilate the culture of her adopted home when she moved to Provence from her native Ireland, and talks about FAIRE, the magazine she founded, to take her readers inside the creative lives of artists, artisans and curators from France and around the world.You can listen to Judy's previous conversation with Ruth in Episodes 14 and 15 of Unpaused. Show Notes: Ruth RibeaucourtRuth Ribeaucourt InstagramFaire MagazineAntoinette PoissonAntoinette Poisson is known for reviving traditional paper dominoes—beautiful, repeat-pattern domino prints. With a cheeky nod to French history, they were named after King Louis XV’s favourite mistress, better known as Madame de Pompadour.'A Year in the French Style: Interiors and Entertaining with Antoinette Poisson’ by Vincent Farelly and Jean-Baptiste Martin// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse// Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S8, Ep 51 - Ana Lamata: Hat Maker & Botanical Artist
Apr 30, 202500:34:44Tap to summarizeJudy steps inside the wondrous Madrid atelier of Ana Lamata, maker of exquisite bespoke hats and a world many may have thought was a distant memory. Surrounded by hat boxes, hand dyed ribbons, linings and trims and her collection of traditional millinery tools, Ana tells Judy how her love of wearing and collecting hats first inspired her to leave behind a promising career as an art historian to become a professional milliner, learning her craft from millinery legend, Rose Cory, milliner to the late Queen Mother. This is a wonderful tale of reinvention told through the lens of a true 21st century artisan.Her deliberate change of career direction speaks to Ana’s belief in the power and eloquence of clothing and specifically, headwear to address the social history, art, and culture in which they were created in their very own way. In this sense, every Ana Lamata hat is an important artefact, not just for the wearer but for the connoisseur and historian. For Ana, every hat tells a precious story. Show Notes: Ana LamataAna Lamata Instagram// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective// Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse //// Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S8, Ep 50 - Emily Kam Kngwarray: Renowned Australian Desert Artist
Apr 16, 202500:40:43Tap to summarizeWelcome back! In this new series, Unpaused is changing direction. No longer about corporate women reinventing corporate careers, the new Unpaused will be about women who broke with their careers and found a new calling by making something important with their hands. Judy has tried to bring the visual into the realm of the podcast to better convey these transformations in both colour and texture so have a look at Unpaused’s new website and Instagram page for more. To ignite this new chapter, Judy delves into the story of the renowned Australian desert artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray. One of the most significant painters to emerge in the late twentieth century, Kngwarray's monumental canvases and vibrant batiks immediately conjure her life as an elder from the Utopia region of Australia. Remarkably she only found her calling in her 8th decade, beginning a career as an artist that lasted until her death at 86 or thereabouts. Emily's international renown has been fostered, in part, by gallerist D’Lan Davidson of Dlan Contemporary in Melbourne. In this interview, Judy speaks to D’Lan and the Head of Research at D'Lan Contemporary, Vanessa Meloni, and joins with them in an exploration of Emily’s remarkable late-life awakening. Show NotesD'Lan ContemporaryNational Gallery of AustraliaTate Modern// Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Caroline Hughes for Feast Collective//Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse// Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →Unpaused is back - new season coming
Apr 15, 202500:00:29Tap to summarizeComing very soon: a brand new season of Unpaused with Judy Stewart.Unpaused is changing direction. No longer about corporate women reinventing corporate careers, the new Unpaused will be about women who broke with their careers and found a new calling by making something important with their hands. In new episodes, Judy will look at the creative lives of makers, artists and designers from around the world, including an extraordinary Spanish hat-maker and an expert on French textiles, inspired by the mistress of a King. In her first episode, Judy will look at the work of renowned Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, whose career blossomed, remarkably, in her eighth decade.There is much to inspire on Unpaused's new website and Instagram page in the lead up to the new season, so have a look there and then listen when Unpaused returns to your feed, fortnightly on Thursdays.
Transcribe →S7, Ep 49 - Carolina Guthmann: Rousing Sicily’s Embroidresses
Nov 8, 202300:35:31Tap to summarizeEarlier this year, Judy chanced upon meeting Carolina Guthmann, who, with her husband (former Italian television journalist Piero di Pasquale), are the creative forces behind Manima World in Palermo; a digital atelier of fine, hand embroidered home linens and ready to wear. If there are two words that make my heart beat faster, they are hand embroidered. When Carolina told me it was her mission to preserve and empower the embroideresses of Sicily, I was in. Listen to Carolina discuss the history of Sicilian embroidery, her big career change and her passion for working with local women sustaining centuries-old skills, on Unpaused now. Show Notes: Manima World Fabergé Eggs Kazumi Yoshida // Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse // // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S7, Ep 48 - Margot McKinney: If Not Now When
Jul 27, 202300:40:08Tap to summarizeMargot McKinney is a fourth generation jeweller who has built a global fine jewellery empire. Having hit rock bottom in her early forties, Margot made a fine comeback by backing her own belief that if she liked a piece of jewellery, even if it was shamelessly bold, others would surely follow. And follow they did. She's now the second biggest supplier of jewellery to Neiman Marcus, the biggest luxury department store chain in the US. Recognising both her talent and success as a local girl made good, she has just closed a blockbuster retrospective of the pieces that made her career staged here at the Museum of Brisbane. Not surprisingly, it was a sellout from the day it opened. If there's one thing I've learned about Margot, it's that she's bold in everything she does. Listen now to Margot on Unpaused. Show Notes: Margot McKinney Margot McKinney featured on Neiman Marcus // Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S7, Ep 47 - Lara Keating: Let Them Eat Viennoiserie
Jul 20, 202300:35:29Tap to summarizeAt the end of 2006, a French patisserie bakery and cafe called Choquette opened in Brisbane. And with it a small slice of French epicurean life began to take root. Proprietor Lara Keating's dream to create an authentic French cafe experience drew deeply on the influence of her French mother, Francoise. The coffee was great and the pain-au-raisin glorious. Before long, she was partnering with the baker to set up a second standalone wholesale bread business. Everything was humming along nicely when she was hit. Not just with the pandemic, but with a truly biblical flood. Listen to Lara now on Unpaused. // Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineer: Jason Millhouse // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
Transcribe →S7, Ep 45 - Catherine Walker: The Humanitarian at Home
Jun 9, 202300:37:29Tap to summarizeCatherine Walker is the most modest of success stories; retired but by no means idle. I find her happily sequestered in an early Tasmanian farmhouse in picturesque Longford. But it wasn't that long ago that she was being pulled into lead Australia's humanitarian efforts in the Solomon Islands, in Afghanistan and witnessing heartbreaking famine firsthand in North Korea as Australia's minister on the World Food Program. Catherine worked with Australia’s official aid program for twenty-two years and held senior development roles overseas, including in Timor Leste as the Chief of Donor Coordination with the United Nations and in Solomon Islands as the Development Coordinator with the Regional Assistance Mission (RAMSI). Beneath all this though is the beating heart of a modern day Georgian enthusiast with an eye for what's exquisite, valuable, and collectible. Listen to Catherine on Unpaused now. // Hosted by Judy Stewart // Produced by Leonie Marsh // Sound Engineers: Lana Kristensen and Jason Millhouse // Instagram: @_unpaused // Website: www.unpaused.net
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