Salon 003
12th November 2024
The third Salon of Doubt will start at 18:30 pm
Address: The Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
The Salon of Doubt is a free event but to attend please click below :
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Speakers:
Click on name or portrait for more info.Will Houston
Will Houston is an
‘Illusion Designer and Director’ aka as ‘A Magician’. He is also a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.Every magic trick is, without wishing to make too fine a point of it, a dense web of lies…. Yet the most interesting magic performances often use those lies to try and put something truthful into the world. When you spend your time lying to an audience, however, and you know that they know you are lying, there is plenty of room for doubt to creep in.
Rob Lowe
UNFORTUNATELY ROB CURRENTLY HAS COVID AND WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AT THIS EVENT. HE DOES INTEND TO TAKE PART IN SALON OF DOUBT 004 IN 2025.
GET WELL SOON ROB !
Rob Lowe aka ‘Supermundane’ is an Artist, illustrator and writer. He is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
The Benefit of the Doubt - I naturally like to use positivity (and, sometimes, relatable melancholy) in my work. Doubt is a tricky thing to talk about positively. To do so, you usually have to talk about a lack of it: no doubt, without doubt, doubtless... I have lived a life of self-doubt, which I have slowly learnt to use positively to guide my work. I’ll be talking about using doubt as a lens to view the world, and no doubt will contradict myself in the process.
Sarah Lee
Sarah Lee is an artist, she also runs art sessions for people with dementia and she is a qigong and meditation facilitator. She is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild
I’ll be talking about my art practice and my creative process and what I may need to alter in order to move forward …..
Jeb Loy Nichols
Jeb Loy Nichols is a musician, printmaker and writer. He lives in a remote corner of the Welsh hills. His latest records are The United States Of The Broken Hearted (O-U Sound) and Jeb Loy (Timmion). His latest novel is Knock Turn (WW Norton).
He is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
I might be talking about a song I grew up with, the American folk song I Am The Man Thomas, and how my father used to play it and talk about Doubting Thomas. I might sing it and write some new verses. I also might talk about how my father called Doubting Thomas “the bravest man in the bible, the only one of those old time fellas I’d ever wanna talk to”. I might talk about my father, who took doubting as a personal creed. I might also talk about the word itself. Doubt. How you got a Do in there, and a But and an Out and a Tub and even, for good measure, a Dub.
I might be talking about a song I grew up with, the American folk song I Am The Man Thomas, and how my father used to play it and talk about Doubting Thomas. I might sing it and write some new verses. I also might talk about how my father called Doubting Thomas “the bravest man in the bible, the only one of those old time fellas I’d ever wanna talk to”. I might talk about my father, who took doubting as a personal creed. I might also talk about the word itself. Doubt. How you got a Do in there, and a But and an Out and a Tub and even, for good measure, a Dub.
Nicholas Cooper
Nicholas Cooper is a historian, and tries to tell true stories based on real facts.
He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
For him doubt is central: are the ‘facts’ really true ?
Might there be better explanations for what probably happened ?
Was that really what people thought at the time ?
Many non-historians work in the same way, and Nicholas has pictures of a lot of them.
Craig Scott
Craig ‘Questions’ Scott has been a skateboarder for longer than not, working with his hands in the trades of scrap metal and logging, a 21st century luddite making work in the analog fashion. He is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
He graduated from Camberwell School of Art in 2000… and something? But preferred the smell of rust and introspection of suffering more so than creating images
Luci Eyers
Luci Eyers is an artist and educator with drawing at the core of both. She runs an interdisciplinary drawing studio called Eye to Pencil.
She is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild
Luci draws from her memory and imagination and uses improvisation within her process – all starting points with uncertain outcomes. She will unpick some of this by talking about one of her favourite drawings and trying to interpret one of her non-linear mind maps.
Milly Brown & Mark Jessett
Mark and Milly are one year into running an independent gallery and shop in Devon. In the distant past Mark studied Fine Art and Milly studied Fashion, but since then they have found themselves as, respectively, a paper salesman and a university lecturer, until now. They are not Brothers of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Neither Mark nor Milly know anything at all about running a gallery or a shop, yet they’ve flung themselves into setting up both, under the name Field System, in an effort to escape their day jobs and live their lives more happily. Both are determined that the gallery should be accessible to all, rejecting issues of class that affect the art world and making a place for meaningful, current work in a small rural Devon town.
Kay Gasei
Kay Gasei is a Zambian-British, London raised artist whose artistic journey has been one of transitions from illustration, fashion and through to the quote unquote fine arts most recently. His works focus on a range of topics with a style that tends to elude to rather than overtly elucidate, working with multi and overlapping narratives. A dynamic visual style whose work explores the intersection of symbolism, abstraction, and surrealism. Drawing inspiration from mythology, dreams, and the human experience, Kay creates thought-provoking pieces that try at challenging perception and invite a twinkle of introspection. He is a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
My doubts? I don’t even really know what my doubt are. I understand doubts to be those things that keep you up at night and may cause paralysis. I don’t have those, I have nudges of worry, “ah is this good enough?”, “should this have a deeper meaning?”, “should I only stick to one thing at a time?” But lately veering into the artworld I have worried about if I liked the idea of my works being only in living rooms, hallways and probably bathrooms of people who have a few spare shekels for paintings. Then I think, this is self indulgent thought, get back to painting the secrets of the universe..
Charlotte Corey
Charlotte Cory is a London based artist and writer. She is a Brother at the Art Workers’ Guild.
‘Who am I ?’ was a popular parlour game back in the 1930s. Participants had printed cards with names like Charlie Chaplin and Shirley Temple pinned to their backs that only they could not see and were then required to question everyone present in a bid to discover their identity. No doubt things got raucous and great fun was had by all - but regular Doubter and Brother Charlotte Cory who has spent her life playing this game, for real, is not amused. Tonight, with the help of Mrs Parrot she will tell us why.
Mark Shayler
Mark is an expert in eco-design, sustainability, creativity processes (I know, I know), an author, an occasional face on TV, a dad and a granddad. Mark Shayler blends creative thinking, sustainability, cultural heritage (mainly pop music) and innovation, weaving a sharp narrative on creativity and collaboration. He is not a Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild.
Mark will talk about doubt and love. He will talk about how they have lead him to here. All time’s arrows were pointed here but sometimes it’s hard to overcome the doubt to fire them. He also helps people overcome their doubts so will probably mention that too.
