The Sleepover Club: How Motherhood Effects Creativity With Maisie Cousins
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week on The Sleepover Club, we're joined by artist and photographer Maisie Cousins! After facing the first year of motherhood in the midst of a global pandemic, Maisie sits down with us to discuss how becoming a mum has changed her creative process.
From what mainstream discourse misses out on when it comes to juggling raising kids and being an artist, to how the idea of 'having it all' has evolved in the age of the girlboss, and if conversations surrounding inclusivity leave motherhood off the table. Maisie will also be chatting to us about her changing relationship with social media, mess, finding the headspace to develop her work when bringing up a baby, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ione. Hi, Olivia, and hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Ioni and I'm the founder and editor-in-chief of Polyester online and in print and everywhere else. |
| 0:27.8 | And I'm Olivia, the co-host, producer and editor of the podcast. We publish weekly episodes |
| 0:32.4 | of the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions the next. This week, it's the Sleepover Club, |
| 0:37.2 | where Olivia and I have all those gorgeous conversations |
| 0:39.9 | you'd usually have at a sleepover with your girlmates. |
| 0:42.5 | And this episode, we have a very special guest, which we will introduce you to in a moment. |
| 0:47.5 | And next week is the Obsessions episode where we speak to someone we admire about something |
| 0:51.1 | they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. |
| 0:59.8 | So, it's Sleepover Club, and we are joined by Maisie Cousins. Hi, Maisie. |
| 1:00.6 | Hi. |
| 1:08.9 | She's just gone red. I feel like I'm doing the work scene. No one can see you by the way. |
| 1:11.3 | Well, they know you've gone red because I only said it because she she is a grass. I am a grass. Thank you. For that, just got out of shower. It was quite |
| 1:15.9 | hot, actually, so probably why I'm red. So, Maisie is an artist and a photographer. I'm sure if you |
| 1:24.3 | follow Polyester aside from this podcast, you know Maisie's work. |
| 1:28.5 | It is glorious and embarrassing fact, which I'm not sure if Maisie knows about me or not, |
| 1:33.8 | is that for my A-level photography, I included Maisie's work as research in my sketchbook. |
| 1:40.7 | I'm really red. |
| 1:43.5 | It was that series you did for Vice, |
| 1:46.7 | where it was like the colour coordinated troops. |
| 1:51.2 | That's so funny. |
| 1:52.8 | I know. |
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