Arts Council England has launched a £14.4 million fund for research and development projects called Developing Your Creative Practice. Grants between £2000 and £10,000 will be made available to individual artists and practitioners, “without the immediate pressure of showing their work publicly”, the Arts Council said. This is a great opportunity to grow and develop without so much of the anxieties and pressures that come with having to produce a finished product. It reminds

Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry took to the stage in Advertising Week Europe and shared his ideas on the creative process. The Drum captured these ideas in a blog post and then the London based company called Sciberia created this visual and fun guide to the creative process Grayson Perry style. His ideas and the way they've been illustrated are simple and yet are often forgotten when we can get lost in the woods of creativity unable to see the trees. The only words of cau

In December 2017 Ruby Glaskin (independent theatre producer for Milk Presents) made an inspired move to gather together a great bunch of like-minded theatre/performance folk whom she knew had a keen interest in the wellbeing of artists. Award winning theatre producer Luke Emery was there. He said loads of ace stuff and his energy in the room was grounded, curious and proactive. Soon after he wrote a brilliant blog post called "5 STEPS FOR AVOIDING BURNOUT". I recommend that

As part of Bedlam: Arts and Mental Health Festival I was invited to be part of a half day symposium examining the use of arts within wellbeing and mental health. The room was brimming with a variety of people interested in wellbeing and the arts. Composers, directors, potters, writers, actors all made up a curious and exploratory energy in the room who, at the end of the morning, had come up with A Collective Hive-Mind List of 20 Wellbeing Reminders (see below). The morning b