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Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

To Show or Not to Show: The Artist's Dilemma [213]

Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan

Visual Arts, Arts

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re discussing the benefits and challenges of showing our artwork, whether that is online or in person. Making art is a deeply personal experience but, for many of us, showing our work is also a vital part of the process. We made the work as a way of communicating something, and it's not communication unless someone else sees it. On the flip side, some artists shy away from exhibiting for a variety of reasons. In this conversation, we explore the benefits of showing our work and also the potential upsides of keeping it to ourselves. Our wide-ranging discussion covers artistic growth, purity of expression, vulnerability, and the ever-present fear of rejection. If you regularly exhibit, we hope our discussion offers food for thought, and if you don’t, maybe it will inspire you to have a go :)


Mentioned

Alice's Time to Shine course https://www.soulrocketstudio.com/time-to-shine

See 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

are you ever going to, otherwise sit in your studio for two days and look at the work you've created and think

0:06.2

what can I learn from how these look together? Hi and welcome to episode 213 of Art Juice, this is honest, generous and

0:18.3

humorous conversations to feed your creative soul and get you thinking with

0:22.2

me Louise Fletcher and me Alice Sheridan.

0:25.0

And we hope this is going to be one of our best episodes ever because it's our second time round

0:30.0

so we should be so much better this time. We had a technical hitch yesterday and our recording just disappeared and so we had this brilliant conversation. So if you were so good, it was the best ever good it was the best ever it was the

0:44.5

best ever if you all listen to this and thinking this is really boring today

0:48.2

just realize that we did an amazing episode but it wasn't saved.

0:53.6

So we want to talk today about showing work.

0:58.7

And this subject came up because Alice is preparing

1:01.6

for open studios, but we're not going to actually talk about

1:04.8

open studios we thought we talk about kind of the pluses and minuses of sharing the benefits to us the benefits to other people, maybe why we wouldn't want to share our work,

1:16.5

maybe what stops us from sharing our work, just a general discussion around a topic that we know is sensitive for a lot of artists. But before we get into that main topic, Alice, tell us what you've been up to.

1:31.0

Being a busy week. It. Been a busy week.

1:33.5

Been a busy week.

1:35.2

So yesterday, when we recorded first time,

1:38.1

I wasn't quite ready.

1:39.1

Today, Friday morning, we're open tonight. I am more close to being super ready for artists at home,

1:48.0

which is our open studio event. So I've got a couple more little tasks to do but I didn't do it last year and I think it's easier at home.

1:58.2

It's definitely easier during the weekend at home. It's more relaxing. You've got everything that you need at hand, but I've got more

2:04.4

paintings this time. So I've had to clear more space, like the room that is off and the junk room that stuff gets shoved in,

2:10.4

it's full of paintings this year. There's a lot on show and that's great but it's just meant

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