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Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee Yorkshire Contemporary, Word Up North, Skipton Music. #bwfc
Naomi Clarke-Mordy @naomicreates.bsky.social 🧵Maker, designer, creative •
📖 ESRC PhD student researching crafting during the pandemic at Bristol Uni •
Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social Drama for #Communication #Creativity #Confidence #Oracy
www.speechbubbles.org.uk
Carolyn Bradley @ourcarolyn.bsky.social PhD Researcher in Drama Education - Uni of Leeds. Teacher. Advocate for arts education. Arts Education Consultant. OFQUAL Subject Specialist - Drama/T&L. Keen Swimmer
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/performance/pgr/6244/carolyn-bradley
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social Researching everyday lives using creative qualitative methods. Based at @UoMSociology.bluesky.social
Kate Mason @katejmason.bsky.social #CreativeNewham #artseducation #creativeindustries #art #craft #design #heritage #charityleadership / experienced #CharityCEO #Trustee & #NED / 30 yrs experience / a Mother
Roxane Permar @roselandia2.bsky.social Artist based in Shetland. Professor in Art and Social Practice. Programme Leader MA, Art and Social Practice. www.landscapeinpain.uk and www.roxanepermar.com and www.ColdWarProjects.com
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Robyn Woolston @robynwoolston.bsky.social Artist <> Filmmaker: Public Realm / Social Engagement / Site Specific / Environment / Mental Health /
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https://linktr.ee/RobynWoolston
Deirdre Nelson @dstitch-mapmaking.bsky.social Textile artist, tutor, Repair Cafe Glasgow.
Kirsten van Schreven RBA @kirstenvanschreven.bsky.social Printmaker/draughtsperson. MA Fine Art Printmaking, Chelsea School of Art. Spyro the Dragon. RBA, Discerning Eye, Wells Art Contemp, Derwent Art Prize 2024, RA Summer Exhib 2016/19/24/25, Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize 2025, Jackson’s Art Prize Longlist 2025.
Consuelo Simpson @consuelomarias.bsky.social Artist and maker, enraged by duplicity and serial liars.
#ProEurope #KindnessAlways
British/European parentage. European at heart #FBPE
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Claire Burnill-Maier @burnill.bsky.social The damsel is more tempting who smells of wild thyme than she who is scented with musk.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Jenny Haynes @pappersaxsten.bsky.social 〰️ Quilts
〰️ Workshops
〰️ Talks
Swede in Sheffield, UK
For class updates and news:
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Helen O’Sullivan @hosphdmuses.bsky.social She/Her
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🏴 PhD-er #SustainableFashion #Education https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helen-Osullivan-3
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#DTMatters Design Educator | Community Engagement | Advisor
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Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social Old stuff, piles of dirt etc
davidfreemanpowell @davidfreemanpowell.bsky.social Queer textile artist 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Cathy Fowley @cathyf.bsky.social 
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
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Juliette Rautenberg @juliette-00.bsky.social STM editor, textile artist, disability parent
Chloe Van der Kindere @lalavdk1.bsky.social Artist Academic Architect Mother
Rachel Yuen @rachelissowing.bsky.social Sewer, grower, home educator. Mostly here to talk quilts and politics
Donna Carlyle @donnacarlyle.bsky.social PhD, Associate Lecturer, former NHS Specialist Health Visitor/CAMHs Early Years Mental Health Psychotherapist, Writer, Photography, digital artwork, love nature, my dogs, comics & popcorn, happy grandma to twins
Helen Peyton @helenpeyton.bsky.social Artist/Printmaker
Here to fight the good fight.
#FBPE
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Sunny Bank Mills @sunnybankmills.bsky.social An inspirational commercial and cultural destination in the heart of the local community of Farsley, Leeds with an Art Gallery, 100 independent businesses and Museum & Archive. Website: www.sunnybankmills.co.uk; Facebook and Insta @SunnyBankMills.
@emmaosenton.bsky.social @emmaosenton.bsky.social 
Ian Robson @ianrobsons.bsky.social PhD | Associate Professor | Northumbria University, UK / Methodology | Creative & participatory inquiry in communities / artist / adoptive parent / game-player.
Saskia Grassie @saskiagrassie.bsky.social Occupational Therapist & Creative Practitioner. Children, young people & families. Background in design. Constantly learning, unlearning and combining experience from both careers
She/her
Jenny Ellwood @jennyellwood.bsky.social Dreamer of dreams. Curator of information. Lapsed technology innovator. British European. Brexit is still breaking my heart.
Emma Fielden @emmafielden.bsky.social Artist
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Michael Duckett @mducked.bsky.social Drawing (urban sketching, comics, zines + lifedrawing)
Bradford. Northumberland. Wildlife and the outdoors.
Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social Mending clothes & creative sewing projects. Church of England priest, community worker, spiritual director, and playing with the overlap of creativity, prayer and story telling.
Fan of #TheArchers
Laura Blackwell @laurabwell.bsky.social Let’s start all over again then, shall we 
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Dr Bea Stitches @drelvey.bsky.social Historian by training; textile artist by preference. Usually stitching something inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy. European.
Claire Voelkel-Sedlmeir @threadyarnpaper.bsky.social Textile Art - Stitched Stories- Sustainable Quilting
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Eowyncookssoup @caryndouglas.bsky.social L&D professional, champion for doctoral researchers, leadership and team development.
Also Oddball AuADHD left-leaning introvert that loves sci-fi, music of all kinds, nonsense, cats, and some people.
Dr Jenny Hall @drjennyhall-5.bsky.social Not slowing down yet midwife,educator,researcher,author,editor, Worshipper,trying to make a difference. My views only. https://midwifery-quilt.co.uk/
@simone-r-k.bsky.social @simone-r-k.bsky.social 
Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social Mother, wife, Nana, activist, Sunday School teacher, sister. Bird by Bird, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. Old quotes compiled by Dean Dauphinais.
Nigel Cheney @nigelcheney.bsky.social DRAWS, SEWS, MOANS... A LOT
Debbie Millman @debbiemillman.bsky.social Chair, Masters in Branding at the School of Visual Arts; Host of the podcast Design Matters; Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, Board Member of Joyful Heart Foundation, Harvard Business School Exec Fellow
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Alison Aye @alisonaye.bsky.social Continuing to record the year, one stitched-newspaper-face at a time. 62 Group. Trying to break the Class Ceiling.
https://bio.site/alisonaye
Dr Claire Wellesley-Smith @cwellesleysmith.bsky.social Artist, writer, curator, visiting fellow in Geography at the Open University. Thinking through textiles and geographies of making. Community allotment grower, everyday stitcher. Bradford UK
Jo Avery @joaverystitch.bsky.social Quilting, embroidery, knitting, crochet - anything with a stitch!
https://stitchgathering.co.uk/
Dr Alison Mayne @knitrospective.bsky.social Doctor of yarn and wellbeing, methods nerd, textile history devotee. Co-founder Woolly Good Edinburgh yarn festival.
Dr Katy Pilcher @kpilch.bsky.social Sociologist - power, inequalities, gender, sexualities, ageing, community led culture, creative activism, visual & sensory methods
Yorkstitcher @yorkstitcher.bsky.social Textile artist working sustainably to raise awareness of social justice issues. Studying at Bradford School of Art
Yorkstitcher.uk
Greg Shaw @zenmousegreg.bsky.social (he/him) Physicist, software engineer, atheist, vegan, Zen practitioner, prog/dub/metal/punk/silence type. Englishman, pro-EU (UK needs to Rejoin ASAP). Oh, and cats. Definitely cats.
Wendy Ward @thatwendyward.bsky.social Designer | Maker | PhDer
Enduring Fashion: Sustainable Clothing Practices Through Wearer-Garment Relationships | Author 5 best-selling sewing books.
https://linktr.ee/thatwendyward
MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social We are a global not-for-profit membership-based association, bringing together methods experts and methods users across multiple disciplines. Our mission is to provide global accessibility to cutting-edge research methods training.
Benoît Rihoux @benoitrihoux.bsky.social Full Prof, political science, UCLouvain | Chair of MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social, global hub for #researchmethods #innovation & accessible #training | Into #QCA, comparison, #mixedmethods, multidata & cool collaborative projects | #methods pluralist
Melinda Young @unnaturaljeweller.bsky.social Constant thinker/maker, mostly contemporary jewellery & textiles adjacent.
Living and making on unceded Dharawal/Wodi Wodi land.
Associate Lecturer at UNSW
PhD candidate at UoW
Leila Jancovich @leilajancovich.bsky.social Professor of Cultural Policy and Participation at University of Leeds. Currently researching how we can better identify, acknowledge and learn from failure https://failspaceproject.co.uk. Also keen gardener as antidote to despair at our political system!
Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social He/him. Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
linktr.ee/olimould
Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social nobody you know. chronic pain, acute whinging. panstitchual. she/her.
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
Amie Taylor @amietaylor.bsky.social Director of @FunPalaces. Youth Theatre Facilitator. Speech Bubbles Practitioner. Books: The Big Book of LGBTQ+ Activities, The Monster Book of Feelings, Pride Families. 
Nicola Naismith @nicolanaismith1.bsky.social Visual Artist and Researcher. AHRC PhD student University of Manchester. HE Lecturer. Consultancy, mentoring and training focused on the support and improvement of working conditions for creative practitioners. HEA & Clore Fellow. www.nicolanaismith.co.uk 
Jamie Bankhead @jaybizz68.bsky.social Lifelong socialist, born-again tree-hugger. Use bicycle and rock climbing for self-medication. Proud to be Woke.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/- R Royal Academy of Arts @royalacademy.bsky.social
National Centre for Research Methods @ncrm.ac.uk The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) delivers training in #ResearchMethods. Visit: www.ncrm.ac.uk
NCRM is a partnership between the University of Southampton and The University of Manchester.
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Guy Dickinson @tracing-silence.bsky.social architect / wanderer
www.tracingsilence.com
https://tracingsilence.bigcartel.com/products
www.johnpawson.com
Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
No NFTs. No AI.
http://www.leemadgwick.co.uk
leemadgwickart on instagram
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking
Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social 
Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social Artist, Researcher, Professor of Imagination Bath Spa University, National Teaching Fellow, Cofounder Forest of Imagination, FRSA, FCCT 💚🦋
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
Iain Jones @iainj.bsky.social
Collaborative research by Centenary Commission on Adult Education & research circle on ‘Building community, democracy and dialogue’
#adulteducation #lifelonglearning #socialjustice
64 Million Artists @64millionartists.bsky.social 64 Million Artists is a social enterprise inviting everyone in the UK to explore their creative potential and use it to challenge the status quo. Home to The January Challenge.
Fun Palaces @funpalaces.bsky.social Community led culture.
Join our movement.
Make your own Fun Palace 3 - 5 October 2025.
https://funpalaces.co.uk/
Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org We believe the arts make life better, and everyone should have opportunities to experience and take part in them. 🎶💃🎭🎨✍️📸🎥🧵🏛️
https://www.campaignforthearts.org/join/
Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk Director of Research & Practice at @ConnectedByData.org working on participatory and open governance of tech. Adoptive parent. 
Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org The campaign for communities to have a powerful say on data and AI, to help create an equitable and sustainable world.
connectedbydata.org
Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social Comics and things
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social Associate Professor. Keen bean. Writer. Pedagogy, psychology, reflexivity, open science, iced lattes. Author of ABSENT MINDS out now 📘. She/her 🌻
Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴🇩🇰🏳️🌈
These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
MK Culpepper, Ph.D. @culpepmk.bsky.social I study creativity. Particularly the everyday kind.
I make; therefore, I am.
Fitz Ali @fitzali.bsky.social Researcher, creative, parent. Doing stuff about ethics and sustainability in the arts & cultural industries. Proud daughter of Cork resident in Belfast
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
ArtWorks Alliance @artworksalliance.uk ArtWorks Alliance: a UK-wide cross-sectoral body collaborating on the strategic development of the participatory arts sector. https://artworksalliance.uk
Liliana Dmitrovic @bridgewithout.bsky.social Artist at https://eljaydeeart.wordpress.com/ Formerly of People's Republic of Southwark