Is Making Art Selfish? [2]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt selfish about your art making practice? Do you worry that it’s taking up time you should be spending on other things?
We discuss whether this is a problem unique to women, we share our own personal experiences, and we wonder if our attitude to this question only changes when we begin to understand the positive effect our art-making has on others. The knock-on effects can be far larger than we anticipate at the start. So, maybe a better question would be “how can I be more selfish?”
In this episode, we also discuss a key issue for artists - the role of fear in holding us back and ask: if fear wasn't a factor, what would you make? For Alice it’s easier to ease in to a new idea in small steps whereas Louise has learnt the hard way that jumping in feet first can get you more than you bargained for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to episode two of the art juice podcast. I'm Alice Sheridan and I'm Louise Fletcher. So it's lovely to have you back here with us again. We thought we would give ourselves a gentle structure so that it wasn't a totally random waffle. |
| 0:25.0 | So we've got a couple of questions that we're going to revisit each week and |
| 0:30.0 | we're going to start with the art itself and what is happening in real time for each of us. |
| 0:38.0 | So the question is, what are you working on this week? |
| 0:41.0 | So in this section, we're going to look back on what we've each been doing |
| 0:45.2 | whether we've had particular highs or lows or things that we've realized that |
| 0:50.0 | might be helpful to share or perhaps where we're stuck I suppose we might end up brainstorming a little bit with each other on that. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes, that would be great. I can start. I'm stuck. |
| 1:01.0 | You start. Go on, you crack in? I have a show coming up in two months well it's actually a month and a half and I had |
| 1:10.8 | originally thought that I had enough paintings for that show but I've sold some in the meantime and now... |
| 1:16.4 | Tough problem, tough problem. Yes, tough problem but I have to make more and the problem I'm having is that my work is kind of leading me and it's going in a different direction than the pieces I already have. It's going more abstract. |
| 1:34.4 | And I'm struggling a little bit. |
| 1:37.7 | It's not struggling because I love it. |
| 1:39.5 | So it doesn't make me unhappy. |
| 1:42.0 | It's fun to see where it's going, but I do, I'm aware that I have six weeks, five weeks, six weeks till I have to hang these paintings, at least a few of them. So I have some pieces that and they don't feel particularly |
| 1:56.2 | cohesive to me at the moment. So I'm in here every day I usually manage a couple of hours a day because I have a lot of other |
| 2:04.4 | things as well and some days I make progress and some days I go backwards. So that's that's |
| 2:11.2 | where I am currently. |
| 2:13.0 | And does six weeks feel like it's a time pressure? |
| 2:17.0 | It does, because we've talked about this. |
| 2:19.5 | I think you are much more confident about taking a painting from where it is to the finish and I still |
| 2:27.4 | seem to have this labored process that goes through layer after layer after layer and then all of a sudden, oh, that's it, that's done. |
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