#291 Sharon Walters: Art as Therapy

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Welcome back to Ctrl Alt Delete, my guest today is Sharon Walters: a London-based artist, speaker & freelance educator who creates hand-assembled collages celebrating Black women. The series, entitled 'Seeing Ourselves' explores under-representation in many arenas in particular, the arts, magazines and western media. The work encourages us to take up space, be seen and create our own spaces.

I first discovered Sharon's art on Instagram and she is someone who has uses the platform brilliantly to celebrate and share her work, as well as grow it as a business. In this episode we talk about how to turn a passion project into a sustainable business, when you know its right to quit a job, how creating art and doing things with your hands can be a brilliant form of self-care and therapy during hard times, plus a discussion about setting boundaries on social media.

To check out more of her beautiful work, follow along on Instagram @London_artist1 or visit her shop here.

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0:57.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Or Delete. Today's guest is with Sharon Walters, a London-based artist who
1:06.8	creates hand-assembled collages celebrating black women. The series entitled Seeing Ourselves explores under representation in many areas
1:17.6	in the arts, magazines and mainstream Western media. I first discovered Sharon's work on Instagram. I
1:24.8	realize how lovely it is to follow art and paintings and
1:29.4	creativity on Instagram and not just get sucked into buying more clothes that I don't need.
1:36.2	And she is someone who has used the platform to celebrate and share her art as well as grow
1:41.5	her business.
1:42.8	And I think she's a wonderful example of someone using
1:45.1	Instagram in a really positive way.
1:47.9	She was also recently featured in the Telegraph
1:50.4	in their 10 years of Instagram piece. As someone who has used it in an innovative way and in
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