I always think when I regret something, yeah, but I might have regretted the alternative worse.

The thing about decisions is we never, ever know what would have happened if we'd made a different one.

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.

I'm me, Louise Fletcher.

And if you're new to the podcast, welcome and happy listening.

You have got lots of back episodes to go back and listen to.

But the podcast, we bring you each week a variety of sometimes guest interviews,

sometimes discussions about what is going on in the life of two working artists in the UK.

And topics that might be on our listeners' minds.

And that is what prompted the discussion this week,

because this week we are going to be talking all about collaborations in their different forms.

So, whether this is something that is a regular part of your practice or something that you have considered,

we're going to work this around.

There were two key questions that came in, and we've got our own thoughts and experiences

as well that we would be happy to share with you about how this has been a different part of

our working practice for both of us in very different ways. So I hope it's going to be very

interesting.

Okay, so I'm going to kick off with Sarah,

who asked, how do you weigh the pros and cons

of accepting collaborations?

For many artists who make a living from their art,

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