HeyJaredMatthew Burrows MBE
Matthew is an artist and social entrepreneur, director of Artist Support Pledge, and programme leader on the Turps Off Site mentoring programme. He writes about art, spirituality, endurance running, and building cultures to support artists!
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Drawing a Line (opens the original)
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At a recent gallery opening, I overhear a familiar conversation. One artist has recently moved into a new studio. The inevitable question comes: how big is your new space?When it comes to studios, artists are obsessed with size. Some people know the square metres exactly. They can tell you the height of the door and ceiling, how many artworks they can work on at once, and perhaps even the size of their painting store. There are others who respond with a puzzled look and simply wave their arms ar
Becoming a Stranger to Art (opens the original)
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I’m often struck by my need for exile. It’s a strange desire: to want to disappear, to be unknown and willingly displaced.I’ve had a summer of relative quiet, a purposeful retreat into going nowhere rather than somewhere. There seems to be so much pressure to go somewhere, as if somewhere has the answers that here does not. Or, more specifically, as if a known destination is more important than an unknown one.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support
Becoming stupid again (opens the original)
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After a year of making new work, I arrived at a moment of conceptual clarity that I hadn’t had in some time. This was exciting and validating. All that work wasn’t meaningless. But in its wake came a creative stasis. I just couldn’t find the emotional energy to start new work. On the surface this may seem strange. I know what I want from my work, I know its terrain, its context, its concerns, but underlying this was a lethargy, an I know too much feeling that I needed to shake.<a class="image-li
The Craft of Attention (opens the original)
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When I was at art school there was a quiet suspicion of skill. It was often spoken about as though it belonged to another age, an outdated concern that sat uneasily within a progressive culture of contemporary art.What people usually meant was technique. In an increasingly pluralistic art world, where artists might work with tents, party balloons or discarded objects as readily as paint or clay, it seemed unnecessary to teach traditional methods. If there was no single medium, surely there could
Learning to Listen (opens the original)
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Suddenly the world went quiet.A week ago I emerged from an evening sea swim to find my hearing had almost disappeared. Not completely, just that familiar muffled quality that comes with blocked ears. It happens once or twice a year. Years of endurance running seem to have persuaded my body to produce more earwax than is entirely helpful.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subscription-wi
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