Author: Sharon Adams
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Retreat Archive
A tour of my Archive of Things from our Retreat weekend in October
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Toolbox
A response to prompts from the Retreat weekend: What tools have I had in the past? What do I have/use now? What do I want in the future? What do I offer to others?
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Storage
During our retreat weekend we enjoyed remote tours of each others studio spaces. While there are few things more glorious than exploring an artist’s native habitat in person, these remote explorations were still very satisfying. I work in a range of materials and therefore in a few different spaces. Sawdust and welding create a fire…
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Artwork as recipe: my responses
My responses to the prompts in this post: https://artistsupportrecipes.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-artwork-as-a-recipe/
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An artwork as a recipe
An exercise using the language and structure of a recipe to write about a specific piece of your own visual art. This process was created for our Retreat weekend on 8-9 October 2022 and presented here as slides. Don’t worry about writing your answers as polished text. Just blurt your responses to the prompts and add…
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A chef’s rules to simple cooking
Jeremy Lee excerpt from this interview https://inigo.com/almanac/a-lunch-with-jeremy-lee-quo-vadis-cooking-new-book There are, Jeremy says, very few rules to simple cooking… Think about what you’re cooking with “Good ingredients don’t have to be expensive – and given the shape of things now, we’ve all got to be clever about how we shop. Soaking beans from scratch is the best…
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What is artist support?
I define artist support as the overall structure needed to function as an artist. It includes personal, community and society level elements. As a coach, I take a person-centred approach so my concerns are with the things the individual can control. I don’t have experience at an infrastructure level, although I did work with Craft…
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Art and Food
The idea of a ‘Recipe Book’ offers some useful metaphors and parallels with how we think about food. Artist needs can be very different depending on available resources.
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Reflections on Ruth’s Questions
Why is artist support so important to you? I went to art school in my late 30s having always worked in small businesses and in very resourceful, hands-on kinds of roles. My degree at Brighton had a quite a solid amount of time devoted to Professional Practice which we shared with the Fashion and Textiles…