On Critiques and Feedback [225]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Louise explores the idea of critiques and feedback. When is is valuable to seek critique? What kind of feedback is helpful? And how does this all relate to finding our own authentic, unique way of making art? We'd love to hear your thoughts as we suspect this is different for everyone, but we hope it offers some food for thought and debate.
Find Alice Sheridan at:
www.alicesheridan.com
@alicesheridanstudio
Find more about Louise Fletcher:
www.louisefletcherart.com
@louisefletcher_art
Credits: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to Art Juice, this is honest, generous and humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking. |
| 0:11.0 | With just me, Louise Fletcher. Alice decided that the last |
| 0:15.0 | minute to take another quick holiday before the end of the summer good for Alice and |
| 0:19.4 | I have something I want to talk about. So this won't be a long episode and it might be a |
| 0:25.8 | little bit of a controversial episode so I'd love to hear what other people think because I'm not, you know, |
| 0:30.9 | wedded to my opinions about this, but I want to talk about the idea of feedback |
| 0:37.0 | when it comes to our art and my objection to it, my innate dislike of it, so much so that not only do I not ask for |
| 0:46.2 | feedback on my work anymore, but I also don't like giving it and I don't encourage it within the groups I teach or on the courses that I run. |
| 0:57.3 | And I want to just talk a little bit about why and the reason is so you can tell me why you think I'm wrong if I am because I know lots of people |
| 1:06.3 | disagree and I know all of our education doesn't work this way |
| 1:10.6 | but I want to talk about how I feel about it and then see what you think. |
| 1:14.0 | So I really appreciate anybody who looks at my artwork and who takes the time to comment even more so. |
| 1:24.0 | And whether they are positive or not positive, I just appreciate them looking. |
| 1:29.0 | But there are comments that do really make me cringe and these comments actually make my whole body |
| 1:36.1 | contract. The comments that are challenging for me are suggestions. They are sentences that start with things like, why don't you try? |
| 1:45.6 | Or next time it'd be lovely if you would. And it most often happens when I share my portrait work, particularly my self-portrait. So I shared one this week on |
| 1:58.6 | Instagram and if you want to look at my Instagram, it's Louise Fletcher underscore art and it's an image |
| 2:05.1 | with drawn in charcoal with me standing in front of the image and this portrait this |
| 2:12.0 | drawing started to almost touch on what I'm trying to get to in my work, |
| 2:19.6 | almost touch on, not there yet. |
| 2:22.1 | I don't need feedback to tell me that I'm not there yet. I |
| 2:25.0 | know that inside myself. It felt though raw and honest and almost authentic and |
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