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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Recognising transitions in changing times [87]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Arts, Visual Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As we approach "back to school" in the UK and Louise's course comes to end, we are both thinking about transitioning back to studio work. But the  Covid-19 pandemic has taken its toll and in this episode, we discuss how that has manifested for each of us. From a general feeling of being scattered (Alice) to a fear of public transport (Louise) and the over-riding sense that very little is certain anymore. But since uncertainty is our new reality, how do we stay upbeat and motivated? Our wide-ranging discussion spans meditation, managing moods, enjoying the present moment, insomnia, self-knowledge, the joys of a Sunday newspaper, and how we can make more time for things we enjoy. We also discuss what keeps us from doing what we want, including the fear of becoming totally selfish, the habit of staying busy, and the danger of failing in public. In the end, we both believe that this strange lockdown time has made us re-evaluate our priorities and tune in to what we really want out of our lives.

Mentioned:

See Alice's latest work at The Cowshed Collective:
https://www.artwavefestival.org/2020venues/cowshed-collective

Alastair Campbell “Living Better”:
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/aug/30/alastair-campbell-surviving-depression-how-i-learned-to-live-with-my-enemy

Annie Nightingale: “Hey, Hi, Hello” 5 decades of popular culture
https://www.waterstones.com/book/hey-hi-hello/annie-nightingale//9781474616683

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If I create the kind of paintings that currently I'm imagining would be really fun to create, would be really like selfishly exciting me,

0:11.0

fuck it, I don't care, this is how I want to work, this is what I want to create.

0:14.8

What if they're really, really, really bad? Hello and

0:25.0

welcome to this week's episode of Art Juice.

0:28.0

This is honest, generous and humorous conversations

0:31.0

that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me

0:34.4

Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher. We've got an admission I've got an

0:40.2

admission. Actually we both have we both started show notes with different topics on our shared

0:47.8

high-tech Google folder which is how we discuss these things and we both wrote

0:52.1

individually on show notes and then we've

0:53.6

turned up and we've decided we're not really sure what it is we're going to talk about today.

0:57.4

So it might be a little bit rambling but we're going to go with it anyway. Really with the idea of the whole

1:04.6

podcast was supposed to be about turning up, sharing with you what we were doing

1:11.2

in order to progress things in our art and progress things within our

1:15.2

artist life and I don't know maybe over the last year it's become a little bit what's

1:19.3

the topic rather than just turning up on house this week been.

1:23.0

So we're going to go a bit free form this week.

1:25.0

You're welcome.

1:27.0

Turn off now if that doesn't sound appealing.

1:32.0

Okay, so tell me then about you

1:35.8

I'm feeling better already. Oh good see it's me it's my magic powers. Well today I'll tell you something I woke up today and I thought oh I

1:46.6

have to do that I have to do that I have to do that and I know I have to do something

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