Creativity as a Career Available for Print-on-Demand
Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists, a book I edited, is now available for print-on-demand at the American Book Center in Amsterdam.
Ruben Jacobs: Artists as Adventurers
“I saw, in all these different practices, some kind of artistic creature who uses science but also design and technology to re-investigate the relationship with the Earth.”
—Ruben Jacobs (Riding the Dragon)
—Ruben Jacobs (Riding the Dragon)
Publication of my essay on Maija Tammi’s work in Contact Sheet
This year's annual publication by Light Work, Contact Sheet, features the work of artist-in-residence Maija Tammi, together with my essay on her work. It covers a dead rabbit, living cancer cells, and immortal creatures.
No News Is Good News
“Do you want to go to World Press Photo and feel bad about everything?” TheWorld Press Photo exhibit, featuring the greatest hits of misery, is no exception to the rule that no news is good news.
(Riding the Dragon, 2018)
(Riding the Dragon, 2018)
I Love Animals on display at the Athens Photobook Exhibition
This year's Athens Photo Festival featured a photobook exhibition, and my book I Love Animals was selected for inclusion.
Useful: A resource for thriving in the new world of work
Introducing a new online resource, Useful. It's a collection of activity sheets to get you thinking about your purpose and value outside of traditional ideas of work. And best of all, it's free, so everyone has access, regardless of their financial situation.
Interview with Andrew Keen
"Maybe the ‘love’ metaphor is an interesting one; we shouldn’t fall in love with the future, it’s too dangerous. We need to keep a distance, have a mature relationship."
—Andrew Keen (John Adams Institute)
—Andrew Keen (John Adams Institute)
Now Available! Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists
Creativity as a Career: The Field Guide for Artists is now available. I'm so proud to have edited this important project, which is designed to help support art students and artists-to-be in developing their skills as creative entrepreneurs.
Brilliant Failures and Second Chances
"To become better equipped for a world of risk and uncertainty is not to neutralize or learn to enjoy failure, but to learn how to cope with it afterward."
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Riding the Dragon, 2018)
—Katherine Oktober Matthews (Riding the Dragon, 2018)
David LaChapelle: An Optimistic Apocalypse
"As an artist you have a choice what you create, and I always wanted to make pictures that would use beauty and touch people and move them and inspire them."
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)
—David LaChapelle (GUP Magazine)