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The romantic idea of the divine nature of artistic inspiration still commonly influences the way artists are perceived today but has very little to do with how most creativity happens. Most of us have jobs and personal commitments that make living a life of artistic freedom impossible.
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The main reason to seek out opportunities such as these is that it helps you keep up to date with current thinking (around whatever the subject matter is) and exposes you to new ideas that you may not have thought about before.
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I was present at the Small Publishers Fair with the Intergraphia publishing project, which is co-edited by myself and artist-writer Emma Bolland. Intergraphiaa is committed to inclusive and intersectional publishing, focusing on work by artists and writers across and between genres and disciplines.
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Composer Neil Tòmas Smith reflects on being selected to write a piece for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Dunedin Consort, and soprano Anna Dennis.
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As Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Drawing degree I have been eager to see how the new degree pathway we have designed is working out for students. Drawing is a hugely broad discipline that extends into all sorts of processes and approaches. I’ve asked a few students on the very first unit of the degree Drawing Practices, how things are going and I am pleased today to shine a spotlight on the second of them, Sabine Jones.
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As a Programme Leader, it is always with mixed feelings that I hear a tutor is leaving to go and do something exciting with the practice. I am of course pleased, as one artist to another, that drawing tutor Simon Manfield has taken that bold step to focus on his own practice, but we will all miss him dreadfully.
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