Category: career
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The Generosity of Makers
A reflection on being a generous artist and being part of generous communities A second essay copied over from Substack, where I am taking part in a summer essay-writing challenge hosted by Beth Kempton. This week’s prompt was Generosity. This is not the writing I planned over the course of this week. This is not…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 39 Artist Support Recipes
In this last conversation of series three, I’ve brought together five members of a group called Artist Support Recipes. A couple of years ago I brought together a group of artists to explore thoughts and ideas about artist support and development. We had some funding to meet for a year and put together some resources…
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What I’ve learned in 2023
Reflections on my creative life and business over the last year Looking back this year, doing my annual reflect and review process has been tricky. The year got off to a bad start with my dad being very ill and my own health being less than ideal too. We both had surgery and are both…
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 28 with Lucie Bea Dutton
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer with Lucie Bea Dutton
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Hearing artists’ voices
Recently I was asked to talk very briefly to a conference about why is it important for artists / creatives to be involved in developing plans for cultural activity and what impact could this have. I have a lot to say about this and could happily have talked for hours but I was limited to…
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Freelancing & Finance
I’ve been working with the brilliant coach Sarah Fox for the last few months, trying to pin down exactly what it is that I want to do with my freelance / consultancy practice. One of the issues of building this side of my work is that I don’t talk about it online very much so…
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The People of 2022
My review of the year through the brilliant people I’ve worked with. I’ve been thinking about lots of different ideas or lenses to review of 2022. I don’t want to just write a list of things that I have done, or even to list the things I have made. Celebrating success is important but also…
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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 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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