Looking Up: How Big Projects can Grow [126]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week Alice is joined by Emily (or Emz) Finch an artist and mother from London to discuss the power nature, but also how finding a really strong driver in your work can propel your ideas. Trigger warning, we mention miscarriage briefly as this is the start of Emily’s story and project.
The work Emily is doing now was prompted by a particular moment after a difficult series of personal experiences. Emily has found the power of nature to has helped with her PTSD flashbacks and has an ambition to build an installation that will hopefully start conversations about loss during COVID and will offer a multi-sensual space to explore the healing quality of trees and nature and reflect on what we all might have lost during this difficult time at a point the world is starting to emerge from lockdown.
This is an inspiring story - on a personal level, and for artists I hope this will encourage you that sharing what you can have such a positive impact in the world.... look what started from that painted pebble!
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Emily’s website: www.emzfinchart.co.uk
If you want to talk to Emily about this project, do get in touch via her website. Do this and hear more about the project by singing up to her newsletter
Tickets for Somerset House - https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/london-design-biennale-2021
More about the Forest for change https://forestforchange.globalgoals.org/
If you have been affected by miscarriage, Tommy’s, the miscarriage association are just two of the amazing organisations that can give support.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My therapist often jokes that I've kind of created my own therapy. |
| 0:05.0 | She feels like... |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:09.0 | Okay, and welcome back to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations |
| 0:19.5 | that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and today I am |
| 0:24.9 | joined by M's Finch who's going to be talking to us about a really interesting |
| 0:30.8 | project which she has developed. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome Emily. |
| 0:36.8 | Hi Alice. |
| 0:39.0 | Now we've just got notes here just to say that |
| 0:46.3 | the part of a really important part of this story |
| 0:54.8 | we mention miscarriage so for any of you who this is effective we just wanted to give you a heads up that we will be talking about this, but I really encourage you to listen along and hear it through |
| 1:01.3 | because this, the kind of recovery from that is an important part of this story is that is that a fair way of putting it at the stage? |
| 1:10.0 | That's perfect Alice yeah yeah I I won't go into any details about it, but I just really want to reach out to other people who may have experienced and share what happened to me and how I'm recovering and I'm using my painting as a as a core part of that. |
| 1:29.0 | In a very, very different way. That's what's so interesting I think is that the you know the |
| 1:34.2 | the visuals and how this kind of work has moved forward is really interesting. So we're |
| 1:40.0 | going to talk in into this go into this in more detail and about how you have taken this really personal |
| 1:46.6 | starting point for a project and it is now becoming something that is much bigger than you you're working with some really |
| 1:53.7 | interesting organizations you've gone through a lot of different ways to kind of |
| 1:59.3 | bring this together and it's gonna the idea is that it ends up being a really interesting |
| 2:07.2 | basically it's a brilliant story of how one nugget of an idea from something that was |
| 2:11.7 | very difficult start has grown into something much more |
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