Category: artist support
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Find Your Focus
A gentle, supported reflection on the past year and a guide to finding your focus for the new year Find Your Focus is my annual course, running again in January. I developed the first version, Gentle Goal Setting in late 2020 and ran in for a couple of years, supporting dozens of creatives to be…
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Mary Linwood events
Save the dates for Mary Linwood related events in Leicester, September 2025 – January 2026. This is advance notice of in-person events related to Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery 13th September 2025 to 22nd February 2026. Entry to the exhibition is free. Some of the events are drop-in,…
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Artist Development Day
At Mill Field Forest Garden, Thurmaston, Leicestershire. Monday 2nd June 10am-3pm £5 I am putting on this event at the wonderful Mill Field in Thurmaston in a few weeks. It’s a glorious green space on the edge of Leicester and a really inspiring place to spend some time thinking about working with nature. I’d love to share this…
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Find Your Focus for 2025
Working out what’s the right thing for you in your creative practice. The world is pretty confusing and distracting at the moment isn’t it? It seems harder than ever to focus on your own little world of creative practice when there is so much misery, crisis and injustice happening. I’m not claiming this course will…
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Reflecting on Reflective Writing
New versions of my Reflective Writing for Creative Practice are available now Course 1 – Creative Practice wide explorations for any creative person Course 2 is focussed around making and artist practice, ideal for artists and as a follow-on from course 1. I’ve created two version of the course now – the original (Course 1)…
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Ordering your thoughts
Part of my reflective practice is journalling or writing loads of ideas down so they don’t escape me. I am always thinking about new projects when I should be working on existing projects or my thoughts wander into exciting new directions when I really should be going to sleep. I journal in unexpected places too,…
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When public engagement is not very engaging
This morning I gave up two hours to go to a nature recovery strategy residents consultation workshop. I left feeling deeply frustrated by the lack of clarity on the strategy and what input we could have and by the poor way it was run. It’s reminded me just how valuable public engagement skills are and…
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Reflective Writing for Creative Practice
In my recent Cultures of Care Group session (and shared in the podcast) I talked about the importance of reflective writing or journalling in my own development. I write a lot, pretty much every day. Some of that writing is just describing the day and getting it out of my head and offloading difficult things.…
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Maker Membership Supported Spaces
As part of my Cultures of Care project, I have a some six-month Maker Membership places (worth £150) available for women in the UK who have financial or health challenges in accessing professional development / building their creative practice or are in a group / demographic which is under-represented in the creative sector (global majority or ethnic…
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Made in the Middle
I’m helping Craftspace promote their wonderful exhibition opportunity for Made in the Middle 2025. I just looked up when it was that I took part in this show with my Interlace collaboration. I’m shocked to see it was 2016! That seems so long ago now. But I have nothing but good memories from that project.…
Ruth Singer 