Let's get positive! Upbeat stories to lift our spirits [93]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Back in March, as we all went into lockdown, we speculated about how the pandemic would affect artists. (see episode 66)
This week, we are revisiting the topic to find out. The episode was prompted by Cherrie Trelogan, who asked if we knew of any positive lockdown stories and we both rubbed our hands in glee because we know of too many to list in just one hour!
Our discussion begins with our own situations, and as seems to be customary, we find ourselves in very different places. Lockdown has left Alice feeling a little out of sorts, although new ideas are bubbling up. Meanwhile, Louise has resolved what she will do with her Ted Hughes paintings and this has given her new energy and focus. But going beyond ourselves, we share just a few of the positive stories we know including fundraisers, books, virtual events, online sales, and the surprising success of art supply retailers. The conversation is really uplifting and just proves that, as creatives, we are better placed than anyone to make a go of things in tough times.
We also answer a listener question about gallery relations - "what to do when a gallery returns your work?" - and Louise shares an inspiring letter.
Mentioned:
Carlene Bronner https://www.newartforyou.co.uk/artist=Carlene%20Bronner
Rachel Davis fundraiser https://www.racheldavisstudio.com/fundraiser
Abigail Bowen's Dark Days series http://www.abigailbowen.com/dark-days-part1
Gwynne Penny https://www.gwynnepenny.com/memories-of-st-ives-in-print/?v=79cba1185463
Tracy Elizabeth Downing https://www.traceyelizabethdowning.com/my-poetry-book-moems-in-mind
Faye Bridgewater https://www.fayebridgwater.com/
Karen Stamper episode 63 https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/ebq61i
Ted Hughes letters https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letters-Ted-Hughes/dp/0571221394
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You know, when you're seeing mainstream television programs and it's basically someone on a |
| 0:05.3 | Zoom call from their kitchen, you know, if it's all right for them, then it's all right for us too. Hello everybody and welcome back to Art Juice. |
| 0:20.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher. |
| 0:30.0 | We're gathering a little bit early this week, so it feels quite soon on last week, |
| 0:39.2 | we're going to get to what we've been working on, I'm going to be, I'm not quite sure about that yet. But, yeah, we've got a little bit of a change at this end, which won't affect any of you. We're still hearing this on Tuesday mornings. And hopefully this is going to be an episode that will boost and inspire you |
| 0:56.1 | a little bit. |
| 0:57.0 | So we're going to be talking about some positive stories, things that have come out of, I don't, |
| 1:12.2 | I said to Louise, I don't want to use the word lockdown. |
| 1:14.3 | Anyway, we're not in lockdown, or maybe we are by the time we hear this again. |
| 1:17.6 | Who knows where we'll be? |
| 1:18.8 | I think I am. |
| 1:20.0 | I think you're not. |
| 1:21.0 | You are, are you? You're in the yeah we're a bit confused because we're in an area |
| 1:26.2 | We're near a city that's supposed to be lockdown, but we're not really anywhere near it. We just that's our post. And so we're all a bit confused. |
| 1:34.6 | Yeah, everybody's a bit confused. So that might affect some of what we say, but back in April, that was |
| 1:40.6 | episode 66. We did an episode about how will this change the way that we that we artists work on the way that we're working and we touched on a few things about beliefs about selling and connections and about how your actual work might change and we thought it would be interesting to check back again now so we're recording this in middle of October. |
| 2:06.5 | Just to feedback how we are both doing and how what we both see from within, I suppose, not only are artist communities that we have, |
| 2:17.5 | but bigger picture things that we see a little bit wider. |
| 2:21.5 | And we hope, as I say said that there's going to be something positive in there |
| 2:26.1 | but before there are some things positive in there but before we get into that then tell me about |
| 2:31.1 | your week how has it been? Oh well speaking of positive I was |
| 2:35.4 | thinking it's only about a month and a half maybe two months since we did an |
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