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Pattern Portraits with Lauren Godfrey

Lauren Godfrey

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Frequency: 1 episode/34d. Total Eps: 21

PATTERN PORTRAITS - Artist Lauren Godfrey chats with inspiring pattern addicts from the creative industries and hears their story through the patterned clothes they choose to wear.

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SAGE Flowers

Season 2 · Episode 14

Tuesday, September 3, 2024 • Duration 49:24

Welcome to Episode 14 of Pattern Portraits!

Lauren Godfrey chats with Romy St Clair, one half of the coolest florists in London, SAGE flowers, about collaboration, the similarities between flowers and clubbing and being a recovering minimalist.

Together with Iona Mathieson, Romy has grown a phenomenal creative business, making playful bouquets and incredible floral installations. Storming onto the scene only a few years ago with a tiny budget and a few stems in a carpark in Peckham they have since collaborated with brands including Gucci, Fenty, Frieze and Nike to name but a handful. They set up an initiative called FutureFlowers which offers funded placements to diversify and decolonise floristry and they have written a book called The Art of Starting in which they share their secrets to success.

Not only are the SAGE girls amazing businesswomen and florists but also impeccable dressers and bring pattern and fun into all they do! Romy has chosen a beautiful selection of sentimental patterns including a fiery Louisa Ballou dress worn for their book launch, a monogrammed Ralph Lauren hoodie belonging to her little boy, a Chunni she wore for her engagement party, an inherited sari and the happiest flower bag for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami.

You can see all of Romy’s patterns and more now on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Flowers This Way' - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Romy’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Madeleine Pledge

Season 2 · Episode 13

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 • Duration 01:00:06

Welcome to Episode 13 of Pattern Portraits!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist Madeleine Pledge about stripes as borders, patterns as graphs and Virginia Woolf’s concept of frock consciousness.

Madeleine Pledge is an artist working sculpturally, employing a myriad of processes including knitting, sewing, casting, ceramics and printmaking. Her work stretches and contorts, leaves a physical impression, can be worn or perhaps has been. It wraps itself around and loops through, balancing and poising. Her work revels in material elements of fashion and from the history of design, reworking and reinterpreting them as a means to understand systems of production, power and authorship.

Madeleine’s take on pattern is a really broad and conceptual one, the patterns she has chosen are closely linked with her work and include childhood polkadot dungarees, a stretch knit stripe from a photograph by artist Sylvie Fleury, a pair of op art and binary code inspired balaclavas made by Madeleine after the artist Rosemarie Trockel, zig zag stripes by Missoni, and a trio of striped knitted garments by JW Anderson.

You can see all of Madeleine’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Maximum Baggage’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Madeleine’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

Dr Manrutt Wongkaew

Season 1 · Episode 5

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 • Duration 01:04:47

Welcome to Episode Five of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with stylist Dr Manrutt Wongkaew about the power of education, dressing as therapy and turning up the dimmer switch on your own light.

Manrutt is a stylist, art director and choreographer as well as a senior lecturer at London College of Fashion. His approach to colour and pattern is truly admirable, you think you’ve seen pattern on pattern, this is pattern on pattern on pattern to the power of 10! His patterns are playful, fun and warm, oozing generosity and magnetism, inviting conversations and connections through his creativity.

Manrutt has also worked in art therapy, with a great understanding of how creativity is linked to our wellbeing. So I’m thrilled to have him on the podcast to talk about all things pattern and joy!

Manrutt has chosen patterns on garments by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, Cuscus the cuckoos, Pleats Please Issey Miyake, Lazy Oaf x Laura Callghan, Marni x Uniqlo, Raf Simons customised by Catrin Williams and an item from Bangkok weekend market.

We also talk about how Manny is a member of Survivors UK and works with Loving Men.

He references Edda Gimnes as his ‘pattern that got away’.

Bethany Rutter

Season 1 · Episode 4

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 • Duration 41:08

Welcome to Episode Four of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with author Bethany Rutter about dressing fictional characters, the unavoidable influence of Trinny and Susannah and memorising Agatha Christie novels.

A podcaster herself, Bethany co-hosts the literary podcast What Page Are You On? with fellow writer Alice Slater. She has published 3 novels with a 4th and 5th coming out in 2024 and has been blogging about fashion for many years. She has used her platform to challenge the fashion industry on it’s shortcomings regarding inclusivity. She is never far from a bold pattern or a bright colour and is a prolific maker, often to be found crocheting or sculpting accessories and garments.

She has designed clothing collections for plus size fashion brand Navabi and even co-designed her own emerald green gem of a wedding dress!

Bethany has chosen patterns from garments by Navabi, Marimekko, Wray, Batsheva X Laura Ashley and Karen Mabon.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Bethany’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

Rosy Nicholas

Season 1 · Episode 3

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 • Duration 42:31

Welcome to Episode Three of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with illustrator, accessory and prop maker Rosy Nicholas about Garfield roller skates, dressing up as Madonna and the power clothes have to transport you.

Rosy has extensive experience of making patterns herself having done brand collaborations with Jigsaw, Estée Lauder, Vans and Lazy Oaf as well as making an epic Grace Jones and Keith Haring inspired Mural for the now closed Ace Hotel in London.

Rosy and I got to know each other through strange circumstances - when my partner Alex Brenchley was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021, a friend put us in touch with Rosy who has been going through treatment for bowel cancer too. She has been a tremendous source of support and comfort for us and Alex and Rosy have formed a strong bond through their shared experiences.

Content warning: We discuss Rosy’s cancer diagnosis and treatment in this episode.

Rosy has chosen patterns by Versace, NAF NAF and Elegance Paris, as well as some vintage items with no labels.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Rosy’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

Follow @patternportraitspodcast to stay in the loop!

New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Mark Hearld

Season 1 · Episode 2

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 • Duration 58:42

Welcome to Episode Two of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and illustrator Mark Hearld about rhythms in patterns, the lack of shocking pink at Kettles Yard and ways of engineering randomness.

Mark has an infectious enthusiasm for objects and ephemera, art and artefacts. He has a self-confessed Magpie Eye, honing in on the details and the fleeting moments and running with them into a creative collage of pattern and expression.

Working across collage, drawing, painting and printmaking, Mark’s work can been seen far and wide from children’s books to furnishing fabrics to leather marquetry handbags. He has collaborated with fashion houses and interiors brands to create patterns for adorning both your home and your body. His own exceptional home has been featured twice in World of Interiors and his book Raucous Invention, The Joy of Making, came out in 2022.

Mark has chosen patterns by Ben Nicholson, Peggy Angus, Comme Des Garçons, Turnbull and Asser, Mark Hearld for A State of Nature and a chapan from Uzbekistan. We discuss many more patterns in the interview.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Mark's inteview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

Follow @patternportraitspodcast to stay in the loop!

New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Julie Verhoeven

Season 1 · Episode 1

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 • Duration 44:21

Welcome to Episode One of PATTERN PORTRAITS!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and illustrator Julie Verhoeven about patterns special to her, her time with John Galliano, striking a pose in a velvet trouser suit aged 5 and tending to the Frieze art fair toilets dressed in a tabard.

Once met, never forgotten, Julie Verhoeven is a unique force in the art and fashion world, having inspired countless students in her role as a tutor in Fashion at Central Saint Martins, a post she has held for 26 years. She has collaborated with many fashion brands including Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton and Mulberry and rose to prominence in the noughties with fashion illustration.

Julie has chosen mostly vintage garments, one by 'La Coleccion Judith Roberts', all the rest are presumed homemade.

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print to accompany Julie's inteview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

There will be an exhibition of the artworks soon to be announced!

Follow @patternportraitspodcast to stay in the loop!

New episodes out each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Pattern Portraits Trailer

Season 1

Thursday, July 6, 2023 • Duration 01:20

Welcome to PATTERN PORTRAITS, an artwork and podcast by Lauren Godfrey!

Each episode I speak with a fellow pattern lover in the creative industries about their relationship to pattern and colour and how surrounding themselves with pattern serves as a kind of armour.

Each guest has selected some textiles special to them which we will discuss, using the patterns to delve into their stories.

I have also created an accompanying artwork, an abstract ‘Pattern Portrait’ of the sitter through their patterns made from Jesmonite inlaid with perspex and brass. And a resulting print will be available to purchase.

There will be an exhibition of the artworks and the prints are available on my website. laurengodfrey.co.uk

Follow @laurengodfreystudio and @patternportraitspodcast on instagram to stay in the loop!

New episodes each Wednesday!

Music by Alex Brenchley.

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Zoé Whitley

Season 2 · Episode 12

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 • Duration 01:00:08

Lauren Godfrey chats with art historian and curator Dr Zoé Whitley about pattern as rebellion, making clothes with her grandmother and channelling her favourite musicians through patterns.

Zoé is director of the well loved Chisenhale Gallery, a gem in the London gallery scene as a space that champions creativity and helps facilitate artists making new work on a grand scale. Before joining Chisenhale in 2020, she worked on exhibitions, research and collections at The Hayward, The V and A, and the TATE where she co curated the exhibition Soul of A Nation: Art In The Age of Black Power which went on to tour internationally. She also curated Cathy Wilkes’ presentation at the 2019 British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and was a Turner Prize judge in 2021. Zoe undertook a Masters in History of Design at the Royal College of Art alongside the V and A, focusing on representations of Blackness in Vogue Magazine in the UK, US and France.

Zoé has chosen a veritable feast of pattern including striped sweatpants from Erykah Badu’s world market, a Vlisco Dutch Wax hall of fame, A Stella Jean dress with typewriters all over it, a floral Versace monogram silk, a Moroccan Boucheruite rug and a Viviers Studio ostrich claw napkin! You can see all of Zoé’s patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

‘Caszh With Zhuzh’ - The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Zoé’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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Badu world market

Getty internship

Kaye Spilker / Sharon Takeda - Curator / Head of Costume at Textiles at LACMA

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Season 2 · Episode 11

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 • Duration 59:41

Welcome to Episode 11 of Pattern Portraits!

Lauren Godfrey chats with artist and filmmaker Michelle Williams Gamaker about costume as a nonverbal communicator in film, pattern stopping her in her tracks and the double echo of intergenerational clothes swapping.

Michelle is an artist known for her ambitious films that enact fictional revenge, placing marginalised voices at the centre of the narrative. Her epic film work ‘Theives’ was presented at South London Gallery in 2023, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Bluecoat in Liverpool in 2024. Michelle’s work responds to films watched during childhood, unpacked and seen anew over time, which raise important conversations about race, representation, identity and agency. Michelle’s work has won many awards including jointly winning the Jarman Award in 2020.

Pattern and colour are intrinsic in her world from costumes and sets to the clothes Michelle wears herself. A pair of her striped boots have even been immortalised in the work of another artist, Madeline Pledge who I am also interviewing this season!

Michelle has chosen some very special patterns, a polkadot and houndstooth from C&A passed down from her mum, a Kantha quilt kimono and Shalwar kameez adapted for wearing at her exhibition opening, a satin dress thrifted in Amsterdam and my personal favourite, an epic Paisley crossed with tiger print shirt by Pencaldi and B!

You can see all of Michelle's patterns and more on instagram @patternportraitspodcast

The PATTERN PORTRAIT print artwork to accompany Michelle’s interview and featuring the patterns we discuss is available to buy now at www.laurengodfrey.co.uk

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