Making eco-friendly art with Scott Denholm [117]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Scott Denholm is a rapidly emerging and award winning ocean artist, living on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. It was his love of the natural world and previous work which first inspired his art, and also to find ways of making better choices for less impact on the environment. He has gathered a decade of research into The Artist Guide to Eco Friendly Art.
We asked, and you had questions; lots of them! So listen to the conversation and see what changes you can bring to your practice. Which materials make a greener choice? Does it matter what canvas you choose? What else might you want to consider around packaging and marketing? The book has covered a lot of ground and is a thorough guide with links and suppliers and will save you loads of time. So if this is something you have been meaning to look into this is a great start.
While Alice starts by feeling a little guilty that she could be doing more, every decision can add to the impact (or not) we are making so Scott's advice is just to start with ONE thing... what will be yours?
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Buy the book here: https://theartistguide.to/books/artist-guide-to-eco-friendly-art/
(ebook $7US or paperback or buy from Amazon)
Find Scott's art on his website: scottdenholm.com
Find Scott on Instagram @scottdenholm_oceanart
Andy Goldsworthy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPDH8yCnlk0
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| 0:00.0 | I get paintings back from a gallery and it's been it's you know it's been in three different galleries and it's been on my online shop and it's been in a third party online shop and it's five years old I think all right you've had a good life but yeah yeah |
| 0:14.7 | I think that's about you used by date time for a new painting Welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your |
| 0:29.3 | creative soul and this week definitely get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and I have a |
| 0:35.4 | guest with me this week I would like you to say hello to Scott Dunum and that is |
| 0:41.3 | spelled D-U-N-E-L l m but we will have that in the show notes for you to look up and find him |
| 0:47.2 | Hello Scott welcome to the podcast |
| 0:50.5 | G'd a thanks for having me |
| 0:59.2 | You got in touch with me and to talk about your approach to making art. Tell me what's special because I think this is a really worthwhile subject and I put a |
| 1:07.8 | post out on Instagram about it and was overwhelmed particularly with one issue around this area, but we're talking about the environmental impact basically of making art, aren't we? Why is this so important to you? |
| 1:26.0 | It's important to me because I just I don't know it's always been important to me this growing up in different |
| 1:38.0 | environments in Australia I was very observant and mindful of what was around me and you know the the landscapes that I was playing in as a kid and surfing in when I was a little bit older and it just was one of those things |
| 1:56.0 | where it naturally went from a subject, |
| 1:59.0 | you know being eco-friendly was a subject in everybody's mind to something that I wanted to do. |
| 2:05.0 | And one of the main driving factors was actually my time working at Australia Zoo. |
| 2:12.0 | So Steve Irwin's the famous crocodile hunter, worked at his |
| 2:16.2 | zoo for most of my 20s. And when you work in an environment like that and you're surrounded by 600 other employees and staff who are just encapsulated in in that eco-friendly that saving wildlife and habitats and all that sort of thing around you. |
| 2:38.0 | It just goes into everything that that you do. So it went into my surfing, I was worried about the wax that I was putting on my board and the Neoprene |
| 2:48.0 | wetsuits and then it came into my art. I was thinking, you know, it was gradual. It wasn't one day I just sort of had a light bulb moment. I kind of did, but it was gradual and yeah, and it just went from there. It was one of those things where I just had to change because I would have to change because I would have felt myself being a hypocrite if I could change one aspect of my life. |
| 3:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 3:17.4 | To become eco-friendly or environmentally minded and then not do it with the other thing that I love. |
| 3:26.9 | So, that was art. Yeah, it's a very difficult thing, isn't it? Because I think there are almost two stages of this. |
| 3:33.6 | One is an awareness and an education about it. |
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