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Jun 2024
50m 34s

What if we stopped selling? [254]

Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
About this episode

This week, we’re talking sales - or rather, we’re talking what happens if we take sales out of the equation. Alice has just finished a gallery show while Louise has a pile of finished paintings she hasn’t yet put on her website.

We discuss the role that sales play in our creative process and in our ultimate satisfaction. Is it important to exchange money for paintings? How would it feel to give work away? Or to make work with no intention of ever sharing it? And what impact would these decisions have on our creativity?


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Jenny Fermor https://www.jennyfermorart.com/

Sara Breinlinger https://www.sarabreinlinger.com/

Rob and Rylan Grand Tour:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcNFdnLtONQ

JM Hall book The Clock Stopped Dead


Find Alice Sheridan at: 

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Find more about Louise Fletcher:

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Credits: "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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