The Creative Pulse podcast
The Creative Pulse is a podcast about people and their creative passions. On each episode host Angela de Burger connects with people who are fired up about expressing themselves by imagining, experimenting and creating. You’ll hear from inspiring creators who’ll give you lots of ideas about how you can explore your creativity too.
The Creative Pulse podcast
Ep 146: Katie Gates - Scrap Monster Maker
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Katie Gates is a fibre artist who made a creative playground for herself by establishing Oddkin Studio where she creates delightfully odd, handmade scrap monsters from repurposed textiles.
Inspired by the constraints of scavenged materials, resourcefulness and a love for the slightly strange, Katie creates each piece thoughtfully by hand, intuitively allowing the materials to guide the direction of each one-of-a-kind creation.
Oddkin Studio began with a leap of faith and a basket of fabric scraps. Katie stepped away from a decade-long teaching career with no clear plan in mind for where her journey was headed next. She spent her days resting, wandering and following small sparks of curiosity wherever they led. And somewhere along the way, those sparks turned into scrap monsters.
On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Katie about how going viral recently on social media led to her finding her creative community, how using recycled materials creates constraints that fire up her imagination, and how she’s purposely developing a process for her handmade art business that fuels her work and life.
Say hi to Katie:
Website - https://oddkinstudiocreations.com
Instagram - @oddkin_studio
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