Talking openly and coherently about my Practice and using professional tools to get it out there.

So the engagement role that I have with a Createch Company is making me consider how I brand and market Art, so I'm putting Canva in my tool kit for insta and promo posters etc.

It's good to see how a creative industry (that isn't Fine/Contemporary Art) operates and it's also been a further confirmation that what I want in my career.. is an Art Studio and contemporary artist community. I'm enjoying the role but it's made me acutely aware that I need to focus on the right areas.

I need to get a painting finished now... to submit to the Summer Exhibition.

Visiting artist programme is ticking along but my priority is getting paintings done and I have some ideas to progress.

After speaking to Katrina about asking "Why?"  in reference to my practice, I picked up a book on public speaking by TED talks - It's a nice steer to how to put a story together to share my practice.

Also listened to Tate's Women in Revolt. The first episode features Margaret Harrison who talks about having to learn to speak publicly (men had wanted women to write content for them to deliver)

Objective: Actually add context to insta posts and update website.

I've taken to using the notes on my phone whenever anything jumps out to me - listening to podcasts, reading books or just thinking about anything.. so here's my notes dump.  This blog serves as my sketch book so its in its raw form..as there's too much in my head to curate all of my thoughts into coherent anything...

• Tate - women on Spotify - free Labour l970s - It’s guilt and expectations  
• Historical paintings of men protecting boys / swap with women as positions of strength / historical narrative
• Postal art, ways of sharing art and then an exhibition held showing what was shared between women
• Do a call out for art with arts council community funding about the psychology of women - I “feel”   ?
• I feel that equal opportunities PR paints a picture of gender equality.. albeit binary gender equality  
• Actually the psychology of “women” is entrenched in a slow cultural shift - stagnated by practicality’s, generational expectations, language and unacknowledged histories