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by Maddie Rose Hills

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Minerals with Marcia Bjornerud & Mále Uribe

March 4, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

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Rembrandt's Materials with Petria Noble & Leonore van Sloten

November 29, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min

This fascinating conversation was recorded at the Rembrandthuis museum in Amsterdam, where I had the pleasure of speaking with The Rembrandt House curator, and the former head of paintings conservation at the Rijksmuseum. We were…
Ceramics & Clay with Clare Wood (British Ceramics Biennial)

September 30, 2025 · 48 min

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May 16, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

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The Personalities of Pigments with Ginny Elston & Evie Hatch

May 1, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min

This week on The Mater Podcast, Evie Hatch, studio and materials specialist and host of Jackson's Pigment Stories, is joined by artist Ginny Elston to discuss The Personalities of Pigments. Ginny, winner of the Student Award in Jackson’s…
Dig Me A Grave with Claye Bowler & Andrew Cummings

April 25, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

A conversation between artist Claye Bowler and art historian Andrew Cummings about the exhibition Dig Me A Grave, burials, connection to the land , latex, soil, death & more. Links Dig Me A Grave dates & venues: Steam Works Gallery, WIP…
Conservation, Craft & Art at West Dean (notes from a Research Residency)

March 28, 2025 · 9 min

Hello! This is Maddie Rose Hills, host of The Mater Podcast. This week's episode is a little different, and a lot shorter! I have just got back from a week-long Research Residency at West Dean School of Arts, Craft, Design and…
Relationships with Colour, with Barbara Collé & Lucila Kenny

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Today I am chatting with Lucila Kenny and Barbara Collé about COLOUR Lucila Kenny is an Argentinean textile designer as well as a researcher focused on Natural Dyeing and the colourants produced by a range of plant species. As a natural…

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About the show

The Mater Podcast explores materials through the eyes of artists and researchers. Host Maddie Rose Hills invites two guests to speak together about a material central to their practice. We will be speaking with seed keepers, artists, geographers, media theorists, writers, philosophers, archaeologists, and curators about the materials that fascinate them. The podcast is created off the back of Mater, a research project initiated by Maddie in 2021. Mater commissions new writing on the subject of materials, as well as hosting artist interviews and exhibitions. More at @mater________ & https://mater.digital/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.