Podcasts, panels, interviews and publications featuring South East England Fibreshed projects.

For press inquiries and images, please contact Deborah Barker at southeastenglandfibreshed@gmail.com

Podcasts

Farming Fashion Podcast, 2023

The Farming Fashion podcast is a three part series co-produced by South East and South West England Fibresheds and Farmerama Radio. Part three includes an interview with SEE Fibreshed’s co-founder and director Deborah Barker.

Videos

Fibreshed UK: Challenges & Opportunities, Groundswell 2021

Panel discussion with SEE Fibreshed co-founders Deborah Barker and Gala Bailey-Barker and designer Clara Jedrecy.

Fibreshed: Reconnecting Fashion to Farming, 2021

Between January and March 2021 South West England Fibreshed diector Emma Hague and filmmaker Hatty Bell went on the road to meet some of the local fibre farmers and processors in the South West of England, and better understand the natural fibre industry that lies on their doorstep.

What does fashion have to do with farming? Growing a UK Fibershed Movement, Groundswell 2020

Panel discussion between Fibershed founding director Rebecca Burgess, SEE Fibreshed co-founder and shepherd Gala Bailey-Barker, SEE Fibreshed director Deborah Barker and SWE Fibreshed director Emma Hague. Chaired by Abby Rose of Farmerama Radio.

Fieldnotes: Farming Fibers on UK Soil, 2023

Following Textile Exchange's London-based conference in October 2023, Right to Roam Films asked Deborah Barker to contribute to ‘Fieldnotes’, a film exploring fibre farming on UK soil.

Fashion is Agriculture: Field, Farm & Fashion/Wool, Groundswell, 2023

Panel with Deborah Barker (SEE Fibreshed), Maria Benjamin, Zoe Fletcher, India Hamilton & Taylor Smythe

Mapping trends and best practice in climate action and sustainability in the arts

South East England Fibreshed was a case study in this British Council/UAL research on the role the arts can play in understanding the climate crisis. The research was presented at COP26 in 2023. Written by Professor Dilys Williams, Dr Mila Burcikova and Niamh Tuft, University of the Arts London.