The Truth about Becoming an Artist [164]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week we're both preparing for solo exhibitions, something that would have seemed unbelievable to us when we first started out on our art careers. That prompted this informal chat about the lessons we've learned along the way, and some of the hurdles that can keep you stuck. Some are things to avoid - not rushing to make sales, getting addicted to the first sense of success or waiting for approval before you begin. Others include the ability to leave things behind when you're ready to move on, finding supportive people to talk to, remembering that our goals will shift anyway, and learning to rely on your own internal validation. We also reconsider reels and talk exhibition prep, framing, and the misery of celebrity life, so this is one not to miss!
Mentioned
Louise's free course https://www.louisefletchercourses.com/wait-list-fyj-2022
Alice's new work https://alicesheridan.com/duality/
The Reel that's going crazy... (up from 50k to 200k+ views since recording https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cc08aBEI00_/
The Virtual Art Summit 2022 www.virtualartsummit.com/go Alice and Kelly Wynne on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc28JffJDwo/
Ira Glass the Gap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91FQKciKfHI
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| 0:16.0 | society now has such high expectations, what is it, high expectations of everybody being perfect and we were just talking about how, you know, that's so misleading and actually it's not good news for a society. A society to develop and grow has to have the ability to acknowledge error. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to Art Juice. |
| 0:28.0 | This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your |
| 0:33.8 | creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan and me Louise Fletcher |
| 0:38.8 | and today we are possibly both too tired to talk. |
| 0:45.2 | We have this system where we have a shared Google |
| 0:49.3 | Docs for show notes where we put ideas down. |
| 0:52.0 | So when we're writing just before we get together and talk, |
| 0:55.4 | we can see what the other person who's writing is an aid memoir. And it's quite funny, I could |
| 1:01.1 | see what Louise was writing about. and I just kind of wrote, |
| 1:04.5 | I'm too tired to talk today. So what we are going to be discussing today is the kind of |
| 1:12.1 | myths and preconceptions, misconceptions really that we might have at the beginning of what it takes to be successful or recognized, that's the wrong word because I don't feel successful or |
| 1:26.0 | recognized in a way, but mistakes maybe that we make at the beginning of the path and see if maybe we can |
| 1:31.4 | debunk some of those because I think when we feel released from that, |
| 1:36.1 | it's a little bit easier to make our journey, make the next step forward. |
| 1:40.8 | But first of all, we're going to be talking about what we've been doing this week. |
| 1:44.5 | Why are you so tired? |
| 1:45.9 | Framing. This is what I wrote that was making Alice Chuckle. I wrote, |
| 1:50.2 | Framing, Framing, Framing, Framing, Framing, Oh, and some more framing so I did this I calculated out the prices for my exhibition first of all in a spreadsheet and worked out how much everything |
| 2:03.7 | was going to cost and what the gallery commission was going to be and what the |
| 2:08.4 | frames had cost me and looked at my profit and thought, hmm, if I then pay someone to frame and I then have to hire a van because I'm paying for the work to go up there and they're paying, we're splitting the cost so they'll pay to bring it back, |
| 2:26.2 | although hopefully there won't be that much to bring back and they're doing all the shipping and everything. |
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