Nitty Gritty
Nitty Gritty is the podcast that delves deep into the underworld of being an artist from a raw and honest perspective.Hosted by artist Kate Florence, Kate chats with many different types of creatives about their struggles, failures and how these things have helped them grow a…
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Stop Confusing Fans with Buyers — with Kate Florence (opens the original)
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Got a big following but no one's buying? I'm flying solo today to break down the difference between building an audience of peers and one of buyers, and why your approach to content makes all the difference when it comes to selling art online. I get into why attention doesn't equal intent, how "process content" can bring about students instead of collectors, and why clarity (not virality) is what actually sells your work. I also share the exact question I ask myself when I'm stuck on how to pres
Does Dark Art Have a Home? — with Arne Ohlsen (opens the original)
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This week Flick joins me in Copenhagen for a chat with artist Arne Ohlsen. Arne started his art practice in Australia while working as a carpenter, painting on wooden offcuts because canvas was out of reach. He gained momentum quickly, exhibited at several shows, and moved into a full-time creative practice before returning to Europe, where the work turned darker, leaning into identity, isolation, power and struggle. We talk about the real differences between making art in Australia and Europe,
Too Pretty to Be an Artist — with Bombony (opens the original)
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Should your work look like an extension of you? This week, I sit down in Lisbon with Ukrainian-born, Portugal-based textile artist Bombony. Best known for her geometric textile works, Bombony draws on her background in architecture to create intuitive compositions that balance structure and softness, allowing meaning to reveal itself over time. As a single mother and full-time artist, she's built a sustainable creative practice spanning painting, textiles and sculpture, finding the intersection
How to Actually Sell Art — With My Own Marketing Strategist (opens the original)
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This week we’re getting a crash course in Marketing 101 with the person who markets me — Felicity “Flick” Brown, my marketing and brand strategist, plus basically 55 other jobs in one. For the past 18 months, Flick has helped me scale my art business, and now we’re finally sitting down to unpack exactly how we got here — from landing on my new marketing plan to all the trial and error attempts we made along the way. We get into the purchasing funnel and why selling high-value art is a much longe
Stop Making Excuses — with Adam Baker (opens the original)
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Nitty Gritty is on tour with me while I move around Europe and this week I'm in London with oil painter Adam Baker. In his practice, Adam focuses on intimate, imagined snapshots of queer life and love, drawing on personal experience to build fictionalised narratives that speak to the emotional complexity of contemporary queer identity. Baker often investigates the contradictions of connection — how queer spaces can feel electric with possibility yet, simultaneously, deeply isolating. Through mer
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