Working as a Female Artist in a Man's World [29]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re discussing gender and how it influences the way we work. The high-end art world continues to be dominated by men and yet attend any workshop and most of the artists there will be women. Are female artists victims of a sexist society? Or are we actually holding ourselves back? We discuss how our parents influenced our attitudes, how women’s tendency to care for others can hinder us, and how we might make our way confidently in a man’s world without resorting to mimicking our male colleagues. We also wonder why some men take up two seats on a plane instead of just one!
(Damn! Should have scrolled further down the page… look at this article!!! By 40 women’s confidence grows to match men and post 60 is greater!!!!! There is hope :-)
Alice has been taking and collecting selected work from exhibitions
You can see three paintings as part of The Annual Exhibition Society of Women Artists at The Mall Galleries Tuesday 24th Sep at 4.00 to Sunday 29th September.
Mentioned:
Alice’s mum’s book (for a great summer read) is called 'The Baby Box' by Jane Hayward
Buy the hard copy direct: https://janehayward.blog/book/
Or on Amazon HERE
Find the Olafur Eliasson documentary Alice mentioned HERE
The exhibition is on at Tate Modern until 20 January 2020
'The War of Art' by Steven Pressfield HERE
'Art and Fear' by David Bayles and Ted Orland HERE
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm in charge of my neighbours cats, fish and African snails while they're on holiday. |
| 0:07.0 | The snails are still alive, the fish seem okay, one of the cats are still around. Welcome to episode 29 of Art Juice, |
| 0:19.0 | on this generous and hopefully humorous conversations to feed your |
| 0:25.8 | creative soul and get you thinking with me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan. |
| 0:32.3 | So we've got a great week for you this week. |
| 0:36.0 | And listeners, I apologize for always starting everything I say with, so, but there you go. |
| 0:41.0 | That's just what I do. Our main topic this week came about because of a conversation that Alice and I had the other day and I realized we were both a little bit renting but also having an interesting |
| 0:56.2 | conversation so we decided to talk about working as a female artist in a man's |
| 1:02.0 | world and We also going to talk about as usual what's |
| 1:07.2 | inspired us and first of all though Alice what have you been working on this |
| 1:12.3 | week? I have been this week has |
| 1:16.1 | been a little bit involved with taking things up to events and then today I've got to |
| 1:21.7 | go and collect some from an event that didn't get in and there |
| 1:26.0 | are some there that did get in which means I'm going to have to go again later to collect |
| 1:29.8 | them again. That's one of those kind of toying and froing of why I don't do that many |
| 1:37.6 | submissions in a year. And also I had a great time yesterday in the studio. |
| 1:44.5 | I knew that I wanted to start on another big one. |
| 1:47.8 | And I had one that probably a year ago |
| 1:51.8 | would have felt like quite a large painting for me. |
| 1:53.7 | It's a meter by 80 centimeters and it was a landscape format and sort of landscape |
| 2:00.9 | originated. It was one that I started maybe 18 months ago and I've been back to a couple of times since almost like as a warmup painting but it just never really |
| 2:10.3 | never really had anything it never really made up its mind what it wanted to be and it wasn't working but also |
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