“We are living in a time obsessed with actuality. People like immediacy, haste and actuality and poetry is, I repeat, timeless. This means it doesn’t correspond to what’s happening. It is out-of-the-moment”

— Jean Cocteau (Poet, visual artist, designer, critic and probably the first design poet)

About the podcast

Welcome to The Artful Exchange with The Poetic Designer. This is the podcast where art, design and poetry intersect. My focus is mainly on voices that often go unheard. By shining a spotlight on emerging talents, and lesser-known creators who are making waves within their fields. Occationally with other surprices in between:-)
Through interviews, poetry readings and storytelling, I hope to inspire you to unleach your creative side, not find your new favorite creative to follow.

Come join in every month as a new episode is released. Sometimes once, and sometimes twice a month. All depending on you the listener and how much you enjoy 'The Artful Exchange'. Please let us know. Both cheers and jeers will help let us know how to get better.

This podcast is initiated on a volunteer basis by yours truly. If you enjoy the episodes and wish to hear more and want the podcast to excel, please feel free to donate a tips with whichever amount your are comfortable with. The money will go to paying for help, sound and recording equipment. We really appreciate your support:-)

I hope you will find it amusing.

Yours truly,

The Poetic Designer aka Atelier Winther aka Tania Winther

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Podcast episodes

Introduction

Introduction to the Artful Exchange

Welcome to The Artful Exchange. We are so exited to introduce you all to various artist, designers and authors from around the globe. Come join us and unleach the creative side in you!

Episode 01

Episode 01: Patterns Of Norway: Inside the Mind of a Textile Designer

Our first guest joining us at, 'The Artful Exchange', is Kiki Plesner-Löfroth from Plesner Patterns. She is a Norwegian based textile and surface designer. Come join as we learn more about her process, collabs, international awards and so much more!

www.plesnerpatterns.no

@plesner_patterns

Episode 02

Episode 02: From Lens to Life: Speculative Taxidermy with a South African Interdisciplinary Artist

In this episode I am very excited to introduce a interdisciplinary artist from South Africa. Natalie Field.

Come join us as we explore how her career shifted from photo and fashion, into what she is doing today.

Learn more about Natalie:

https://nataliefield.art/

@nataliefield.art

Episode 03

The Art of Play: Masquespacio's Colorful Design Story

Listen to the episode with the Spanish award winning interior design firm, Masquespacio. From their trails and tribulations. From starting up to where they are today. It is a modern love story, about a powerful couple who forged their way together in a difficult world of design making.


www.masquespacio.com

Episode 04

Nordic Inspirations: Scandinavian Art in the French Alps

It was such a pleasure to get to know the man behind the idea to open a gallery in a ski resort in France only focusing on Skandinavian art. That is quite a task to undertake. Andreas has forged his way through and built up a successfull gallery growing annually. A true inspiring story.

Heimdall Gallery. Location: Villard de Lans, France.

Andreas Fensby.

Website: Heimdall-gallery.com

Instagram: heimdall.gallery


Episode 05

Unveiling the Invisible: Cristiana Giachetti on Art, Soul, and Trasnformation

Cristiana Giachetti is an Italian artist I admire a lot. Her work is full of passion and rawness. Just a few years ago she decided to leave the corporate world for good and dedicate herself fulltime to art. Which she has done with great success.

Art & Sculptor

Website: galeriehelligkeit.de/unsere_kuenstler/cristiana-giachetti

Instagram: cg_artesofia

Coming out October 1st.

Teaser II: Poem reading.

Teaser II: Poetry reading.

Teaser II

-from The Artful Exchange with a poem reading by your host, The Poetic Designer.

Memories from Oz.


Stay tuned and listen to our episodes every month as we interview and talk to artists around the globe!

https://atelierwinther.no/podcast

Episode 06

Brushed by Nature:

Zoe Grey's Award Winning Landscape

Episode 6 is a great talk with the Australian landscape artist, Zoe Grey. She is based in Hobart, Australia.

Since Tassie is so close to my heart, it is only natural I bring in talents from OZ too.

I became aware of Zoe a few years ago and have been following her ever since. She recently won the, ‘Hadleys Art Prize in Australia, which is a prestigious art prize for Australian landscape art. Zoe, a young, and very much, new and rising star in the art world, won the prize with her landscape painting, ‘The Shape of Rock’. Come join us as we learn more about her as an artist and her beautiful island filled with inspiration for her incredible works. How she works and future plans.

www.zoe-grey.com

insta: zoe__makes

Episode 07

From Ambulance to Poetry Pharmacy: Deborah Alma's Creative Journey

Deborah Alma​

Poet, Creator and Owner of

The Poetry Pharmacy

Bishops's Castle & Oxford Street

Website: www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk

Instagram: poetry_pharmacy_

Deborah is a UK-based poet, editor, and educator who has dedicated her life to bringing the power of poetry to diverse audiences. Her work with poetry has spanned dementia care, hospice support, vulnerable women's groups, and schools, all while lecturing at universities like Worcester and Keele.

In 2012, Deborah launched the incredible "Emergency Poet" project, offering poetry on prescription from a vintage ambulance—a beautifully poetic approach to healing. In 2019, she co-founded the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner, poet James Sheard. This space blends literature with mental health support, and Deborah’s mission to make poetry accessible continues to grow. With her second location now in London, her work has made poetry more alive and interactive than ever. Her debut poetry collection, Dirty Laundry, caught my attention, and before, and since then, she has authored several more. Through her poetry, her books, and her unique approach, she’s managed to create an extraordinary bridge between art and healing.

Coming out December 1st.

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The podcast is a labor of love, run entirely on a volunteer basis by yours truly, who is passionate about inspiring others, discovering new talents, and sharing those stories with you. Every episode is crafted with care, aiming to bring you meaningful content that uplifts and motivates and not least gives a voice to emerging talents in the field of art, design and poetry.


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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

Albert Einstein