Host Freya Last features interviews artists, creatives, taste makers, culture creators and fun characters with interesting stories. In her New York life she meets many fascinating people and chats with them about how they found their passion, what made them who they are, how they balance that with their lives, parenthood and talks to them about their current projects. Conversations include creativity, growth, parenting, design, art and balancing it all.
6: Quietly Fascinated - Host Freya Last interviews Danie Raffield on her dream renovation project in Cornwall
Host Freya Last interviews Danie Raffield about her dream renovation project of a cliff-top house in Cornwall, exploring how her prior experience building a creative business informs her approach.
13 May 2025
5: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Jackie Robinson from 42 Pressed
In this episode of Quietly Fascinated, I sit down with Jackie Robinson a designer, a letterpress artist and an entrepreneur based just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. Jackie shares how she first discovered the art of letterpress and the determined path that led her to securing her own press. We talk about what it means to build a business around your craft, the beauty of analog creativity, and the power of community in helping bring a vision to life.
From navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship to staying rooted in passion, Jackie offers a grounded, inspiring look into the life of a modern maker keeping an old-world art alive.
Are you aspiring to follow your passion and start your own business? This one episode is for you! Jackie demonstrates how following your craft can lead to a dreamy life, building a house in nature and practicing what lights you up the most, each day.
Check out Jackie’s work and learn more about her studio on Instagram @42Pressed or at @jackierobinsondesign. If this episode resonates with you, please consider sharing it, leaving a review, or simply sending it to a friend who’d love it too.
Links from the show about Charleston include:
Restaurants
@basickitchen
@posthouseinn
@wineshopov
@bittyandbeauscoffee
@offtrackicecream
@flowershopchs
@cheznous
@mercichs
@harkencafe
Hotels
@thedewsberrycharleston
@hotelemmeline
Art
@georgegalleryart
@ravenroxanne
Boutiques
@netteshop
28 Feb 2025
4: Quietly Fascinated: Katie McQuerrey
Host Freya Last interveiws Film Editor, Katie McQuerrey on her work, extensive career and balancing motherhood
27 Jan 2025
3: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interwiews artist Arabella Sim
Artist Arabella Sim is an artist who is classically trained as a painter and draughtsman and studied at Central St Martins. She works with text, performance and sound but her work revolves around the human condition. Exploring our connection to the land and the perpetual cycle of life and death. Freya discovered her exhibition on a weekend in Aldeburgh, Suffolk when she went for a walk on the beach.
They chat about her exhibition at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower in July 2023 and how it came to pass, how she witnessed a merman right before the show and how it brought the community to the beach to experience togetherness, creating and being by the sea. It is a dive into some of the motivation of Arabella's works and how an artist's life chose her, in Paris. Arabella has so many charming stories of her other creations in her life such as a little sketched dragon that she keeps in her desk draw.
This is a must listen for any aspiring, empathetic creative souls who also love the sea!
14 Jan 2025
3: Quietly Fascinated: Host Freya Last interviews Gemma Cairney
Gemma Cairney is a multi faceted creative who started as a fashion stylist and host on British TV and radio. She became a seasoned author and is relasing a book called 'The Immortal Sisterhood' which is she is now directing in a live show at The Lincoln Center on Friday Jan 17th.
They discuss her new project, the inspiration., growing up in England and balancing creativity all amidst a windy storm in seaside town of Margate where Gemma was recording.
14 Jan 2025
2: Melissa Dubbin on creating her art piece Delay Lines 2020-21
Artist Melissa Dubbin exokains to host Freya Last how long her piece Delay Lines (2020-21) took to make and how her other pieces communicated with it.
13 Jan 2025
2: Quietly Fascinated: Freya Last interviews artist Melissa Dubbin
In this conversation, Melissa Dubbin discusses her artistic journey, the influence of her upbringing in New Mexico, and how her identity as an artist has evolved over time. She reflects on the challenges and changes that come with parenthood and how they impact her creative process. Additionally, she shares insights into her recent work showcased at the Pompidou Centre, highlighting the interplay between art, technology, and the environment.
You can follow more of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson's work on their website
https://dubbin-davidson.com/ (https://dubbin-davidson.com/)
You can follow more interviews on the Quietly Fascinated podcast here @quietlyfascinatedpodcast
Chapters
00:00
Materials and Memory in Art
00:00
Introduction
01:02
New Chapter 2
01:13
New Chapter
01:14
Defining the Artist's Identity
01:57
New Chapter 3
04:22
Balancing Creativity and Parenthood
07:13
Recent Works and Exhibitions
10:16
Exploring Time and Technology in Art
13:24
Conclusion and Reflections
26 Jun 2024
1: Quietly Fascinated - the importance of stories with Amanda Kinsey
Amanda Kindsey, CEO of Electric Yolk Media talks about the importance of stories in her life and career. How she conceived the idea for her documentary film 'Jews Of The Wild West' and how motherhood helped her.
25 Jun 2024
1: Overcoming perfectionism with Amanda Kinsey
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