(NOT) A Real Artist

Today we talk about how women express and are expected to express themselves in art. Why topics of sexual abuse are taboo, and why painting pretty women is preferred.

TRIGGER WARNING!

This episode contains themes of sexual abuse, infertility, and miscarriage.

We hope this knowledge helps you make the best choice for you.

Artists mentioned:

Guerrilla Girls: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/guerrilla-girls-6858

Sherry McDonald: https://www.instagram.com/smickeydee/

Key Takeaways

1. As women we often get the implicit or explicit message that we are too much (like too loud, too fat, too angry, too hairy). Carrying this with us permeates what we do and how we perceive ourselves, including our art or our potential art. 

2.   Women often paint pretty subjects. Why is that? Is it a choice, or a feeling of obligation to fulfil a feminine beauty ideal? 

3. Paint what makes you happy, but also analyse why you’re doing it.

4. Making art (whether pretty, raw or anything else) is vulnerable, and it’s natural to worry about people’s response to it. 

5. The concept of badness often gets conflated with ugliness, which adds a further barrier to exploring ugly art or a sense of shame when our art

is accidentally ugly. 

6. How society views the value of our labour, and specifically focuses on unpaid domestic labour as the domain of women, can influence how seriously we take ourselves. Prioritise making art over loading the dishwasher!

7. We can explore the boundaries of femininity and question why certain expressions seem to be excluded from existing within femininity 

8. Feminine and masculine energies or approaches are not necessarily gender specific. 

9. Incorporating our lived experiences into our art is often political and therefore potentially polarising. Having that voice and using it is exciting but also scary. 

10.If you want to explore topics about womanhood and art, check out Guerrilla Girls, they are an anonymous group of feminist, female artists devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world

11. Seek out people who encourage you to make the art you want to make. Don’t seek out or listen to the naysayers

12. We need softness and cuteness, but we also need stupid and graphic and raw. And we need everyone to feel free to make the art they want.

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Iris

Website: https://iris-impressions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iris.impressions.art/

Tamara

Website: https://www.ruskea.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruskea_art/

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This time we're exploring the topic of Success and Succeeding at Art! We examine what success means, and give advice on how to be successful.

Artists mentioned:

Caylee Grey: https://www.cayleegrey.com/

Roxanne Coble: https://www.bybun.com/

Effy Wild: https://effywild.com/

Tamara Laporte: https://www.willowing.org/

Michael Hafftka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hafftka

Key Takeaways

1. Define what success means to you by:
2. Assessing whose idea of success, you’re subscribing to
3. Examining if your values match the idea of success, you hold
4. Healthily and cautiously comparing yourself to the right people
5. Hearing other people’s definition of success to broaden your ideas of what success means
6. Consider that success does not just mean fame, wealth, and fortune
7. Success can be found both in prospective and retrospective thinking.
8. Clues of success differ, BUT when something leaves you energised, it might be a clue
9. Consistent actions over a period of time is a healthier view of success
10. Our views on others success can be myopic as we don’t see their work and failures leading up to it
11. You can be fulfilled in your art practise and what you create, and commercial success can be a supplementary process to this experience rather than the main goal
12. Setting yourself up for success can be physical actions like: Journaling, eating for energy, lowering barriers to entry, rituals, or transitional activities OR psychological, such as: acknowledging the vast space between zero and painting.



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Iris

Website: https://iris-impressions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iris.impressions.art/

Tamara

Website: https://www.ruskea.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruskea_art/

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In todays episode, we share our views on Inspiration, how to be inspired, get out of a creative slump, and what to do instead of waiting for brilliance.

Artists/Art mentioned:

Caylee Grey: https://www.cayleegrey.com/

Iris's Neocolour II Art: https://www.instagram.com/p/CbihiLXIVGr/

Key Takeaways

1.      Show up for your art and creativity vs. waiting for inspiration.

2.      Inspiration comes in the doing.

3.      As Caylee Grey from Get Messy says “More than zero is enough”

4.      Feeling like you need to get a bit of inspiration? Try:

• Restriction; with time and your supplies,
• Give yourself permission to let go of the end result,
• Copy what inspires you and let it appear naturally in your art,
• Ask questions about what inspires you.

5.      And remember, just sitting a little bit in your shit is enough.

Enjoyed the podcast? Please rate, review & share it with anyone who might enjoy it or find it useful!

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Iris

Website: https://iris-impressions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iris.impressions.art/

Tamara

Website: https://www.ruskea.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruskea_art/

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In our first episode we talk about what the title of our Podcast means. How we deal with impostor syndrome and which limiting beliefs trip us up.

Artists and Books mentioned:

Struthless: https://struthless.com/

Lynda Barry, book "What it Is": https://g.co/kgs/UMFvRV

Key Takeaways

1.      Feeling like an artist is not a static thing, allow for fluidity, change and growth.

2.      The value of what you do, is separate from the money you generate from it.

3.      Instead of asking or answering the question: “What do you do?”, ask “where does your life-force go?”

4.      Labels become important when you need to claim something out the norm and when you want to be a role model for others.

5.       Keep showing up and making art in spite of your limiting beliefs.

6.      If you’re growing your beliefs should grow and change with you.

7.      How people perceive us, isn’t necessarily how we feel inside.

8.       If you’re looking for a practical assignment, start with the phrase “I am an artist because”. Write this down several times and fill in your own because.

9.      To take it to the next level, write it down in the morning, spend your day with the question, then write down the answers at the end of the day.

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Iris

Website: https://iris-impressions.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iris.impressions.art/

Tamara

Website: https://www.ruskea.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruskea_art/

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Welcome to Not A Real Artist! A podcast by Iris Fritschi-Cussens and Tamara Sagathevan. On this show, we will discuss relatable creative topics with honesty and humour. We just wanted to drop by and announce that our first episode will be available soon. So, please stay tuned. We hope you enjoy the podcast!

*Soon too vague? We plan to release the first episode on the 01-10-22

Iris Fritschi-Cussens: https://iris-impressions.com/

Tamara Sagathevan: https://www.ruskea.com/

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