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Photographer 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 brands 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 Ribeaucourt

Ruth Ribeaucourt Instagram

Faire Magazine

Antoinette Poisson

Antoinette Poisson is known for reviving traditional paperdominoesbeautiful, repeat-pattern domino prints. With a cheeky nod to French history, they were named after King Louis XVs 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

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Judy 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 Lamata

Ana Lamata Instagram

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Welcome 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 Notes

D'Lan Contemporary

National Gallery of Australia

Tate Modern

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Coming 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.