Artist Development
Art comes to fruition when it is experienced by the audience. These experiences are rich and
multi-dimensional, yet often leanly understood and underexplored. What if artists engaged
their empathy and explored how their artistic choices impact on the audience experience?
In answer to this question I have created a professional development tool called The Performing
Artist’s Audience Workbook to help artists grow their creative confidence,
deepen their audience sensibility, inform artistic practice and inspire more intuitive risk taking.
Commissioned by Creative Scotland in 2020, its freely available to download and use, or you can opt
to have an applied learning experience through individual coaching or workshops for up to 24 people.
Artist Development
If you are an artist, producing company or support artist professional development, I can work with you and your company, your students or members to:
- Explore how your Artistic Purpose, Practice and Audience Experience interrelate.
- Reconceptualise Audiences as feeling, thinking, sensate beings underpinned by emotionally intelligent experience models you can use.
- Refine your Artistic Intention by exploring the many dimensions of audience experience and using this knowledge to enrich artistic practice.
- Examine Audience Impact through immersive and kinaesthetic exercises.
- Improve Communications by refreshing the language you use to describe your work to producers, marketers, programmers and audiences so they ‘get it’.
- Learn new ways to Share Work-in-Progress to surface richer, more constructive feedback.
Delivery Partners
- Creative Scotland
- National Touring Network Highlands and Islands
- Bradford Producing Hub
- Panta Rei Danseteater [Norway]
- Dansens Hus [Norway]
- Dansarena Nord [Norway]
- Artekale Street Festival [Spain]
- Burn the Curtain Theatre Company
- SKUDA – The Actors and Dancer’s Alliance [Sweden]
- Nordic Art Station [Sweden]
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