The Outlier Conversations with Faye Dobinson: Art and culture curated.

This conversation was recorded one month ago in Gozo, and is an exchange that celebrates the release of a book that myself and my great friend Andrea Britton have created together. 10 Years ago, while celebrating our birthdays together, a coffee and a question sparked the beginnings of our book. We gathered together comments, quips and wisdoms from ourselves and all those we encountered that day i...

In this episode I muse upon 'the middle'...that often uncomfortable stage of a creative endeavour where you cannot see the wood for the trees. I have been teaching over the last month in two very different contexts, and yet in each the disruptive energy present in the middle of creating something presented itself. Feeling like you have hit the wall- that’s the middle.  It has none of the...

In this musing I discuss ideas and insights, gleaned from my role as teacher and mentor, about the rhythms of the creative act and what is asked of us within that process. We are asked to endure the 'not knowing', to dwell within creative tension, and we are exposed to the absolute inevitability of discomfort within the life cycle of making, which can deepen our relationship with discomf...

In this stream of consciousness conversation from September 2024, I sit with ideas around working cyclically and how doing so can keep our art and creative endeavours juiced and rich. (Thank you for bearing with my very occasional lapses in sound quality, it's all a learning curve!) In an age that demands constant production, artists are finding themselves exhausted, dried out and without the...

This episode is a conversation that I had in October 2022 with artist and friend Susie Chaikin. Susie and I have many cross overs in our art making practice- we both use working wth community as a medium in itself, we share a belief in the capacity of art to create community, and we both hold the possibility that the art we make can act as medicine for ourselves and for culture. Our conversation h...

Artist Faye Dobinson and myth worker and keeper of the stories Lucy Cooper were recorded live in conversation at the renowned Porthmeor Studios in St Ives, UK, in May 2024. Their rich exchange was in response to Faye's exhibition 'Shadow Work: La Otra' and its relationship with the Heroines Myth. The exhibition was full of imagery both celebratory and grief drenched, dense with stor...