Untrained Effort
Exploring performance making, the freelance life and what it means to be an artist in a world up in flames. For people who want to create without permission.
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Earlier this month I spend two luscious weeks near Tomar in Portugal. Studio 459 offers creative residencies to step outside of the daily routine and rest, create, think... It was absolutely glorious. We made a ceramics project using a trunk from a tree fallen during the big storms in January when over 7 million trees were uprooted. We offered it back to the land with a gorgeous ceremony on the solstice. It was a wholesome two weeks. I cannot recommend it enough. Th
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What i love about performance is that, whilst you are making something, you have in your mind’s eye a group of people. At least it is like that for me. When i create, there is an invisible group of people in the room - the audience. Many artists do not do that and, in my opinion, it shows. I am firmely in the camp that advocates creating as an act of dialogue, of exchange, of transformation. And none of these things can be achieved if i make in a void, oblivous to the fact that someone, somewher
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