Author: Ruth Singer
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Find Your Focus
The world is pretty distracting at the moment isn’t it? Creative practice is pretty distracting too. Confusing as well. It’s all too common to find ourselves wading through too many ideas and not knowing which to concentrate on, or struggling to know what ideas are worth pursuing. Running a business and keeping moving forwards with…
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Stitch with something to say
Before I visited Festival of Quilts earlier this year, I was thinking about another world where something other than quilts were on display in a huge, annual competition. I was inspired by Fashion Fictions which Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd introduced in Making Meaning Live where alternative versions of the world are explored where there are…
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Working for free
Artists and freelancers regularly get asked to do unpaid work for organisations and institutions. In this blog post I discuss one of the common scenarios, share some thoughts on how things need to change and suggest some actions you can take. Should I say yes to unpaid work? This is a perennial complex problem for…
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Making Community Spirit
Behind the scenes on my current community project Creating great projects is all about the preparation and behind the scenes work. As my Community Spirit project is coming to an end, I’m reflecting on all the work and unseen effort, creativity and chaos that goes on to make things like this look seamless. I started…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 26 with Gillian Lee Smith
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer and Mandeep Dhadialla
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My Creative Retreat
What I learned from taking a week out to just be an artist again It makes me laugh when I get comments saying how nice it must be just to stitch all day in my lovely studio. I think it would be nice too, but that isn’t quite the reality of making a living from…
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Artist Mentoring
Support and guidance with your creative practice with experienced artist & mentor Ruth Singer My 1:1 mentoring sessions are back! I took a break in August and September to get a few other things finished and to have time to figure out what I wanted to do with my mentoring practice. I’ve been mentoring since…
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The personal impact of volunteering
How volunteering at a foodbank changed my perspective on life Volunteering during the pandemic changed my life. Helping at the foodbank gave me purpose during the height of the pandemic. I have been so impressed by the care and community-mindedness of the formal and informal volunteers I have met over the last two years. I…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 25 with Mandeep Dhadialla
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer and Mandeep Dhadialla
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 24 Highlights from Making Meaning Live.
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer
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