Episode 2
Ceramicist AJ Simpson won The Great Pottery Throwdown in 2022, impressing the judges with her impressive ceramics.
AJ lives and works in Aberdeen, where she shares a studio with partner Celda, and we join them as they go back to their old high school to inspire the next generation of north eastern Scottish potters.
Passionate about creating better Asian representation in literature, Birmingham-born, Glasgow-based children's' author Maisie Chan's first book was shortlisted for the 2020 Blue Peter Book Award. As she prepares to launch her second novel, Loop learns how Maisie's role as a young carer to her adoptive parents shaped the narrative in Keeping Dancing, Lizzie Chu.
Elsewhere, from her studio in the Tweed Valley, Moy Mackay creates vivid felted paintings. Taking inspiration from the beautiful countryside on her doorstep, Moy reveals the secrets of felting with merino wool and coloured thread as she creates one of her unique landscape artworks.
Also in this episode, poet Matt Kinghorn gives an exclusive performance of Sometimes.
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