Where do You Find Support? [140]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're talking support systems - what are they? How do we find them? And why do we need them? We have supported one another over the last few years and we have both found the relationship valuable for different reasons. But what are the other ways we have found to support ourselves? In this episode, we talk about the value of online communities and real life relationships, but also the importance of asking for help and support in other parts of our life, so that we can make room for art. We also talk about learning to say no, and asking for support from the wrong people, which can be so destructive. We hope this episode inspires you to look at how you might be able to shore up your art practice by leaning a little bit on other people - even if only now and then.
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Alice's Connected Artist Group www.soulrocketstudio.com/connected-interest
Louise's Art Tribe https://www.louisefletcherart.com/art-tribe
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan |
| 0:15.7 | and me Louise Fletcher and this is a magic episode |
| 0:22.0 | Magic the magic. The magic of it is we're recording this one day not for release the following four days later in a bid to sometimes have an opportunity to ease |
| 0:38.8 | the pressure on our week. So we're not going to talk about what we've been doing this week, although I can tell you what it will have included it will have included a bit of studio time. |
| 0:48.0 | It will have included a little bit of why am I not painting as much as I should? |
| 0:52.6 | It will have included a little bit of tech. |
| 0:54.4 | It will have included a bit of admin |
| 0:56.0 | because it always does. |
| 0:57.5 | But what it means is we're going to jump straight into the topic, |
| 1:00.9 | which is where we find support for each other so and where we find support for all of us as an artist in your creative journey. |
| 1:20.0 | So this is almost prompted a little bit by a conversation that we recently had off recording which we might attempt to repeat artificially. |
| 1:29.1 | But also from some of your emails that have been coming in after our break saying what you like about the podcast and what you would like to see in it. |
| 1:38.0 | And we had this lovely email in from Heather, which I'm not going to read in full other than to say Heather thank you very much for writing in it but it meant a lot to both of us. But what she said was I find such joy, enthusiasm and normalness in your discussions. They appear very natural. You clearly |
| 1:57.6 | have a close bond with each other, which allows you to share and provide understanding in the |
| 2:02.2 | challenges that artists face. |
| 2:04.0 | You are equally able to defend your differences |
| 2:06.6 | and the divergence of your own personal or creative process. |
| 2:10.1 | I haven't really offered any requests or for suggestions. I've enjoyed your discussions with other |
| 2:15.3 | artists and the topics for discussion which engage the listener to think about their own weeks too. |
| 2:21.1 | So we hope that the conversation that we're going to have today encourages you again to go back to your own creative life and think about where you get support. |
| 2:32.0 | But this was also prompted by something that Louise turned up and said that she needed to say to me and I said, |
| 2:42.0 | you're sure this is is wise should you say this |
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