This weeks episode is with Nickie Hursthouse, the founder and creative force behind My Clay Table, a ceramics studio grounded in the belief that the best memories are made around the table. My Clay Table ceramics are made to be used, to hold food, to share drinks and to gather people together. Nickie is a mum, small business owner and worked as a dietitian for 13 years. Nickie’s journey with clay began from her own need to pause. Following years of anxiety and burnout she found solace in the most unexpected place: a lump of clay. Working with clay taught her patience, resilience, and how to embrace imperfection. Clay became a powerful, therapeutic way to slow down.
Through small collections of functional ceramics, creative workshops, and her ongoing project At the Table, Nickie brings together food, clay, and connection. At the Table is where the brand comes full circle, a space for recipes that look as good as they taste, for gathering people together, and for celebrating the everyday moments that matter. Because what is the point of a beautiful bowl if it never gets filled?

https://www.myclaytable.co.nz/

https://www.instagram.com/myclaytable/

https://www.instagram.com/nickiehursthouse/

Links Mentioned

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives by Lori Gottlieb

Who Better Than You? The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big by Will Packer

https://www.myclaytable.co.nz/blogs/recipes
https://www.myclaytable.co.nz/collections/all-products

About your host:

Kate Hursthouse is a practising artist and trainee Creative Arts Therapist with over a decade of creative and community experience. She combines her background in design, illustration, and arts education with a growing therapeutic practice centred on inclusion, emotional wellbeing, and creative expression. Guided by empathy and curiosity, Kate supports individuals and groups to explore identity, connection, and growth through the transformative process of art-making.

She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding and inspiration.

https://www.katehursthouse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/katehursthouse/

https://www.instagram.com/creativemotherpodcast/

A huge thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Scheme for supporting this season of the podcast.

This weeks episode is with Naomi Azoulay a Tāmaki Makaurau–based artist whose work explores the emotional landscapes of resilience, transformation, and social change.
Working in portraiture across collage and painting, she portrays women with strength, agency, and defiance, celebrating feminine rage as a catalyst for social change.
With a background in visual arts and community engagement, her practice connects personal experience with broader questions of representation and inclusivity.
Through vibrant colour, layered textures, and emotionally charged imagery, Azoulay invites viewers to pause and reflect on their own emotions.
Her work has been exhibited nationally, and she continues to develop projects that foster dialogue and solidarity across diverse communities.

https://www.naomiazoulay.com/

https://www.instagram.com/naomi_azoulay_collage

https://www.instagram.com/naomi_azoulay_art

Links mentioned:

Nap Ministry

Lissy & Rudi

Kehinde Wiley

About your host:

Kate Hursthouse is a practising artist and trainee Creative Arts Therapist with over a decade of creative and community experience. She combines her background in design, illustration, and arts education with a growing therapeutic practice centred on inclusion, emotional wellbeing, and creative expression. Guided by empathy and curiosity, Kate supports individuals and groups to explore identity, connection, and growth through the transformative process of art-making.

She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding and inspiration.

https://www.katehursthouse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/katehursthouse/

https://www.instagram.com/creativemotherpodcast/

A huge thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Scheme for supporting this season of the podcast.

This weeks episode is with Dina Jezdic, an art critic, curator, and decolonial scholar with a doctorate focused on decoloniality of museums and contemporary Indigenous practice. She has extensive experience in creative mentoring, delivering tailored programs for groups and individual practitioners across fine art and design.
Dina is a frequent contributor to Art News (NZ), Art New Zealand, The Big Idea, Artlink (AUS), Art Collector (AUS), and Sculpture Magazine (US).

https://www.instagram.com/ms.interpretedd/

Links from this episode:

Dina's doctoral thesis: Decolonial Museum Practice Through Performance Art and Activation: A Collective Autoethnography : https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/items/28129a8c-f767-4dca-96cc-5e4bf540b129

https://www.artlink.com.au/issues/4530/the-mother-issue/

Sarah Hughes

Sefton Rani

Mother Mother Collective

About your host:

Kate Hursthouse is a practising artist and trainee Creative Arts Therapist with over a decade of creative and community experience. She combines her background in design, illustration, and arts education with a growing therapeutic practice centred on inclusion, emotional wellbeing, and creative expression. Guided by empathy and curiosity, Kate supports individuals and groups to explore identity, connection, and growth through the transformative process of art-making.

She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding and inspiration.

https://www.katehursthouse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/katehursthouse/

https://www.instagram.com/creativemotherpodcast/

A huge thanks to Auckland Council Creative Communities Scheme for supporting this season of the podcast.