Flying Your Freak Flag: The Power of Exposing Yourself [37]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Most of us spend our lives trying to fit in; to get it right; to avoid causing offence. If we have unusual personality traits or experiences, we tend to keep them hidden from all but our closest friends.
This episode was conceived after a personal conversation during which Alice shared a major event in her life. That event played a major role in the way her art has developed and yet she has not discussed it publicly until now. We explore how such experiences can shape our art and whether this is something we should share with others. Does it help us connect with art buyers more authentically? Or is it too much information? And what are the potential downsides of being open about our lives?
Our discussion touches on the work of Brenee Brown, covers what to do if you don't like exposing yourself, and includes a brief discussion of whether galleries approve of artists being vulnerable online. We also catch up with Alice after her workshop in Yorkshire and hear how she kept herself occupied during over 12 hours of driving (spoiler alert: there was singing!).
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| 0:00.0 | And for anybody who gets nervous about these things, |
| 0:02.6 | there were even two people on either side |
| 0:05.3 | who kept nodding off. They were... Hi, welcome to episode 37 of Art Juice with Me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:24.0 | We are actually on take two of this episode |
| 0:28.0 | because we had this fantastic idea that when we were together in my house two days ago that we would record a live |
| 0:36.5 | episode and even have a little bit of video so you could see us together in my |
| 0:40.6 | house and we're going to share that on social media. |
| 0:43.0 | Long story short, none of that happened because the technology let us down. |
| 0:47.0 | Everything went wrong. |
| 0:49.0 | And so we talked about all this once before which I think and didn't |
| 0:54.4 | really good but I think that I'll mean this would be even better this time because |
| 0:59.0 | we've practiced and talking of practice what was so frustrating was we did lots of little test videos because we had new microphone |
| 1:07.2 | We had we tested it we got up halfway through to check that it was recording everything was working fine until we went right we're done stop and then it went sorry |
| 1:17.4 | this is not recorded could not record it said because I got the same message later |
| 1:22.1 | myself when I did something else could not record |
| 1:24.8 | Which is fine when you've just done a five minute video as I had done but when you've done an hour and a half |
| 1:29.3 | Podcast quite annoying. Yeah, Particularly about this topic. |
| 1:34.0 | Yes. |
| 1:35.0 | So what we're going to talk about today, amongst other things, our main topic is what we've called |
| 1:41.0 | Flying Your Freak Flag or the power of exposing yourself online. |
| 1:45.9 | And we don't mean exposing, you know, in yourself. |
| 1:49.7 | But we'll get to that shortly. |
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