Salon 002
11th June 2024
Speakers:
Click on name or portrait for more info.Unfortunately, due to illness, Jeb was not able to take part in this Salon of Doubt.
We wished him a speedy recovery and hope he can take part in the next event in the autumn.
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We wished him a speedy recovery and hope he can take part in the next event in the autumn.
Ged Palmer is a sign writer.
He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Flow state junkies: asking ourselves when it’s right to stick or when it’s right to quit in order to get back into a blissful flow state. What are you prepared to risk?
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He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Flow state junkies: asking ourselves when it’s right to stick or when it’s right to quit in order to get back into a blissful flow state. What are you prepared to risk?
Joy Gregory is an artist working with photography and related media.
She is not a Brother of the Art Worker’s Guild.
I don’t know if fear is the same as doubt, but to me, it feels the same. It is always a shadow which is especially intense when embarking subjects, which require extreme sensitivity
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She is not a Brother of the Art Worker’s Guild.
I don’t know if fear is the same as doubt, but to me, it feels the same. It is always a shadow which is especially intense when embarking subjects, which require extreme sensitivity
Gareth Mason
Gareth Mason is a ceramicist.
He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Gareth Mason discusses his evolving relationship with doubt, especially in regard to the role it plays in his own 'muddy adventuring'. Is doubt a liberating hallmark of intellectual and creative freedom?—or an invidious character flaw that undermines confidence and stifles progress? Mason hopes to open a conversation on the role that this much-maligned force plays in so many aspects of life, revealing that, with a little careful navigation, it can be an ally on the road toward unfolding and tentative wisdom.
Gareth Mason is a ceramicist.
He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Gareth Mason discusses his evolving relationship with doubt, especially in regard to the role it plays in his own 'muddy adventuring'. Is doubt a liberating hallmark of intellectual and creative freedom?—or an invidious character flaw that undermines confidence and stifles progress? Mason hopes to open a conversation on the role that this much-maligned force plays in so many aspects of life, revealing that, with a little careful navigation, it can be an ally on the road toward unfolding and tentative wisdom.
Sarah Corbett
Sarah Corbett is the founder of Craftivist Collective. She is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I’ve been doing my craftivism as a form of ‘Gentle Protest’ for 15 years now (!) Self-doubt has been a huge strength from the first day until now in honing my craft in gentle craftivism. I can honestly say that the work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world and seems to do more help than harm. Self-doubt has served my work for it to succeed where it has. Now is the time I should be sharing this robust model of how to do craftivism with my new book that has just been published. Yet…now I want to start a new journey of self-doubt in another area. Is that selfish? Is that self-sabotage? Is that silly? Am I addicted to self-doubt?
Sarah Corbett is the founder of Craftivist Collective. She is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I’ve been doing my craftivism as a form of ‘Gentle Protest’ for 15 years now (!) Self-doubt has been a huge strength from the first day until now in honing my craft in gentle craftivism. I can honestly say that the work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world and seems to do more help than harm. Self-doubt has served my work for it to succeed where it has. Now is the time I should be sharing this robust model of how to do craftivism with my new book that has just been published. Yet…now I want to start a new journey of self-doubt in another area. Is that selfish? Is that self-sabotage? Is that silly? Am I addicted to self-doubt?
Wilfrid Wood is an artist. He is not a Brother of the Art Workers Guild.
I’ll be talking about my doubts on taking up oil painting age 55.
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I’ll be talking about my doubts on taking up oil painting age 55.
Katharine Fry
Katharine Fry is an artist working from performance into video. She is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I work from performance into video, staging unsettling encounters with uncanny bodies. Or something like that. 20 years ago, I made sculptures, stand-ins for my family, performed with them and videoed the performances. I moved to Venice to make sculpture, but made video instead, performing in domestic and derelict spaces. I spent the last couple of years going quietly mad, making doll’s house stop motions alone in my studio. Now I’m trying to go big. A feature film! Cast! Crew! Museum partner! But all I’m doing is fundraising… And trying to write a script as an artist… And worrying that the size of it all is way beyond me… Can I make it happen? What if it’s crap? Go big or go home?
Katharine Fry is an artist working from performance into video. She is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I work from performance into video, staging unsettling encounters with uncanny bodies. Or something like that. 20 years ago, I made sculptures, stand-ins for my family, performed with them and videoed the performances. I moved to Venice to make sculpture, but made video instead, performing in domestic and derelict spaces. I spent the last couple of years going quietly mad, making doll’s house stop motions alone in my studio. Now I’m trying to go big. A feature film! Cast! Crew! Museum partner! But all I’m doing is fundraising… And trying to write a script as an artist… And worrying that the size of it all is way beyond me… Can I make it happen? What if it’s crap? Go big or go home?
Joe Berger
Joe Berger is an author, illustrator, cartoonist and animator. He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Joe Berger is an author, illustrator, cartoonist and animator. He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Which instincts in myself can I trust? Which are out-of-date, knee-jerk reactions? I try to channel these questions into The Ancients, a comic strip I started on Instagram last year.
The Ancients are often doubtful of others (especially the youth), and rarely doubt themselves; they are ancient, after all - surely their ways are the time-honoured best. I’ll share some of their wisdom for contemplation, and show how my own doubt informs the writing and drawing processes of comic strip creation.
Carolyn Trant is an artist and printmaker and artivist. She is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Am I an Artivist? Should I be? How many personae do or can I have - simultaneously... ? Aren’t
all labels bad....?
How much should I worry about relevance, topicality durability and quality in my work ....the
world has changed...
Should I control where my work goes and is exhibited...control is grim isn’t it? But if it is worth
doing it is worth being seen....
What is value? ( and to whom?) Should I be thinking about prioritising what I do in my last
couple of working decades ( or maybe even only one).....
Doubts.....
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Am I an Artivist? Should I be? How many personae do or can I have - simultaneously... ? Aren’t
all labels bad....?
How much should I worry about relevance, topicality durability and quality in my work ....the
world has changed...
Should I control where my work goes and is exhibited...control is grim isn’t it? But if it is worth
doing it is worth being seen....
What is value? ( and to whom?) Should I be thinking about prioritising what I do in my last
couple of working decades ( or maybe even only one).....
Doubts.....
Ray Ward
Ray Ward is an artist. He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I’ll be reading from a revised version of my cycling journal dated June 21st 2009, it’ll be about 10 minutes but can be longer or shorter. Hope it’s a funny serious or serious funny view of things.
Sunday, June 21, 2009 revisited. Cleaning, washing, riding a bike, going to exhibitions, listening to music, reading, eating and even talking all involve the sometimes pointless activity of thinking and the inevitable ponderable dilemma of that is, ‘I could be wrong, I could be right’. John Lydon, 1986
Ray Ward is an artist. He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I’ll be reading from a revised version of my cycling journal dated June 21st 2009, it’ll be about 10 minutes but can be longer or shorter. Hope it’s a funny serious or serious funny view of things.
Sunday, June 21, 2009 revisited. Cleaning, washing, riding a bike, going to exhibitions, listening to music, reading, eating and even talking all involve the sometimes pointless activity of thinking and the inevitable ponderable dilemma of that is, ‘I could be wrong, I could be right’. John Lydon, 1986
Charlotte Cory
Charlotte Cory is a London based artist and writer. She is a Brother at the Art Workers’ Guild.
She will be airing her doubts about the whole terrifying business of stamp collecting ! Intrigued ? You should be !
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Charlotte Cory is a London based artist and writer. She is a Brother at the Art Workers’ Guild.
She will be airing her doubts about the whole terrifying business of stamp collecting ! Intrigued ? You should be !
