We offer free online advice sessions for artists who are based in Scotland and are not in education, aimed at developing a wide-ranging dialogue around your practice.
We would like these conversation-based sessions to feel informal and supportive, helping you clarify thoughts around your practice as a whole or about a particular work in development. A lot of artists who take part in advice sessions are looking for a different perspective on a new work in progress (including the very early early stages of a work in development) or aspects of the current shape of their career that they have been thinking about but are yet to share more broadly (for example in a funding or residency application). We aim for advice sessions to help support your practice through listening and then sharing our reflections on the area of your work you want to discuss.
Sessions are hosted by individual members of the LUX Scotland team who have different curatorial, artistic and project management experience and knowledge to draw upon to support your professional development. You can read about the team here to help you choose who you would like to meet with.
We can offer the option of having a video or telephone call with us, whichever suits you best. We have some suggestions of areas that the meeting could focus on, but we are happy to have more open discussions if you aren’t sure where to start, or are feeling uncertain about how to gain clarity or momentum within your practice, for example.
- Talking over some possible next steps for your project/work in development
- Sustaining and developing your practice and networks
- Funding and budget planning
- Production and project development
- Thinking about appropriate research
- Discussing the direction your work is taking more broadly
ACCESS
If you have any access requirements that you would like to share or discuss with us then please email Aqsa Arif (Learning Programme Manager) at email hidden; JavaScript is required
MEETING TIMES AND DATES
CONFIDENTIALITY AND FEEDBACK
After your meeting we’ll ask you to complete a short, anonymous feedback form so we can monitor how useful the sessions are.
After your meeting we may share a short verbal summary, including key details of the session, with the rest of the LUX Scotland team. This information will be treated confidentially. This is to help us stay up to date with artists’ needs so that our future programme can support where it is most helpful.
IMPORTANT BOOKING INFORMATION
If you have recently taken part in an advice session with someone from the LUX Scotland team then please don’t book another one for 12 months. This is to allow us to support as many artists as we can within our current resources.
Once you have booked via TicketSource we will email you directly to arrange a video meeting or phone call.
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