Are you an artist with Attitude? [8]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This is really a juicy one. What happens when your work culminates in a show - but you’re still feeling dissatisfied? There is no doubt that making art is an emotional journey. Showing or selling it can feel even more raw - but it depends on your attitude. Hashtags and starlings all have a helping hand this week.
Louise is managing all the elements needed to hang a show and Alice wonders if getting work online at the same time as hanging a show an almost impossible feat. Even when you are doing all the work yourself there is a huge advantage in curating and arranging your own work in terms of reviewing your progress.
Alice has had to pivot her hanging plans for an upcoming art fair due to a change in circumstances beyond her control. But this led to some new energy into other paintings including using her hands. How do you feel about using tools in your work?
Are you an artist with attitude?
Without attempting to be psychologists (!) we share how we’ve learned to adjust how we react to certain situations or change our thoughts. For both of us this has led to lovely changes in our art and life. But it’s not always easy, and is certainly an ongoing practice. How do you respond when life throws you a curve ball?
Noticing and connecting with your emotions is part of being human and can be hard to manage, especially at art fairs. We talk about keeping your energy up in the face of bad sales or an overheard comment.
Oh, and then it all veers into magic and law of attraction ;-)
Thank you to Jennifer who asked “What’s the best way to find people looking to BUY art? (on social media)”. We have a few ideas but perhaps the main response will surprise you.
After she just bought a new painting which has transformed her bedroom, Alice is buoyed by how much impact art can have in a home - and seeing the result of her recent collaboration with Zoffany designers.
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Interior inspiration: Alice’s work and the Zoffany fancy photos
See a sneak preview of Louise’s exhibition here
See Louise's starlings here. (photo courtesy of Helen Peyton)
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| 0:00.0 | And I had this like mini meltdown and my friend is not an emotional, you know, good at emotion. |
| 0:09.0 | So he was trying to say, well, you know, it's all right. And I was like, oh, it's just all wrong. |
| 0:15.0 | Ooh! |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to episode 8 of art juice. This is behind the |
| 0:28.1 | scenes conversations about making art and the creative life with me Alice |
| 0:32.4 | Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher. And today we are talking |
| 0:38.0 | about are you an artist with attitude? I think this is a really interesting conversation and it led us into totally |
| 0:46.4 | new directions about what your expectations are when you have an event and how much you can actually control or have an impact on situations where ultimately you really don't have any control |
| 0:53.5 | or have an impact on situations where ultimately you really don't have any |
| 0:59.8 | control over what have you |
| 1:04.7 | we go? |
| 1:05.0 | So I hope you enjoy listening to this one. |
| 1:04.0 | Off we go. |
| 1:09.0 | So I think this week has been a slightly different week for both of us. |
| 1:13.6 | So what have you been working on, Louise? |
| 1:16.6 | Oh, I have had a busy, busy week. |
| 1:19.2 | I have been setting up my exhibition. |
| 1:22.4 | So I've been banging on about this for weeks so everyone knows about it but I have a solo show in a local gallery and I had a week to set it up from when the last show so I got it set up on Tuesday |
| 1:35.6 | got all my paintings there got everything hung and also I'm using my words as part of this exhibition because I like to write. |
| 1:45.8 | So I printed up all these cards with my sections of text about the paintings on, got all that done, and it's all ready to go, and I have the preview evening tomorrow night, and that's when, and then it's open for March. So it's been really, it was really stressful, but never get a chance to see everything set out in a way you want to show it with explanations if you want explanations, but all your stuff, |
| 2:17.4 | I've only ever been in group shows or in gallery with other people, or, you know, I have all these paintings around my house, |
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