The Healthy Artist
Podcast Description
The Healthy Artist is a podcast that helps artists and creative practitioners build a resilient and aligned art practice. As practicing artists, Martha Lamont and Dan Curtis create a space to openly discuss the highs and lows, and the often unspoken challenges of being a contemporary artist. Alongside thier own reflections, Dan and Martha invite guests to open up conversations from across the art world. Navigating many of the toxic spaces of the creative world, with slowness, insight and humour, to give you tools to create a sustainable and fulfilling creative life.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes surrounding the resilience and alignment of art practices with episodes delving into topics such as social media dynamics for artists, the myths surrounding creative success, and the importance of personal values, demonstrated through discussions on managing compulsive scrolling and reframing success as habits rather than end goals.
The Healthy Artist is a podcast that helps artists and creative practitioners build a resilient and aligned art practice. As practicing artists, Martha Lamont and Dan Curtis create a space to openly discuss the highs and lows, and the often unspoken challenges of being a contemporary artist. Alongside thier own reflections, Dan and Martha invite guests to open up conversations from across the art world. Navigating many of the toxic spaces of the creative world, with slowness, insight and humour, to give you tools to create a sustainable and fulfilling creative life.
This week, I’m joined by North East-based trans and disabled artist Kitt (aka Lady Kitty) to talk about how art can be genuinely useful. We chat about growing up unschooled, how mess and collaboration connect us, and bypassing traditional galleries to make interactive art you can actually lie down on. We also dive into Kitt’s drag alter ego ‘Hot Art Dad’ and how to use the “Wanker Tipping Point” to push past polite paralysis and demand the baseline support and access you deserve.
Links & Mentions:
- Mentoring with Kitt: Find out more
- Supporting Kitt’s transition
- Our Substack: Read our longer-form piece expanding on today’s chat (Hot Art Dads, The Wanker Tipping Point, and Mess-Making as Social Glue) over at Substack
- The Healthy Artist: Our new offerings are kicking off in September! Head to thehealthyartist.com for all the details.
Thanks for listening, and we’ll catch you next time x
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