a survivors guide to creativity: Recent Episodes
Mark Williamson, Greet Recoules
A Survivors Guide to Creativity is a show that explores the up's and down's and round and rounds of studying, working and surviving in a creative industry. Mark and Greet have worked in the creativity industry for nearly 30 years respectivily - from Brussels, London, Sydney and now the Gold Coast. Greet is a life long designer from Belguim, while Mark, from London, has a 30 odd year career in the photographic industry. Both continue to work professionally and are also mentors/tutors within the tertiary education sector helping the next generation of creatives into the creative industry. Each week we explore subjects within the various creative industries from designers, graphic artists, videographers, writers, photographers, performers and classical arts looking at the highs and lows of these fields and ways to survive them. We invite different guests from these different creative industries to share some of their own journeys and ways they managed to survive a creative life.
When is a good time to have a go at a new career path? Can I actually embrace that new creative idea?
What is imposter syndrome? Why do we sometimes feel we are not worthy of our creative endeavours?
Mark and Greet discuss what does 'being creative' mean and who and what can achieve that.
The internet has had a huge impact on many of the creative industries - What is the good, the bad and the ugly about this.
Mark and Greet talk about finding, developing and the values of having a niche in your creative work.
Mark and Greet discuss the various ways you can operate in a creativity industry, from large agencies, to being a sole trader/freelancer.
Hi and welcome to our first episode of survivors guide to creativity. Greet and Mark discuss the various highs and lows of working in the various areas of the creativity industries.
Episode 3 of survivors guide to creativity - this week Greet and Mark discuss how they tried to find work in their respective creative industries in new countries - the wins and the losses - and a few things inbetween.
Episode 2 of survivors guide to creativity - Mark and Greet discuss the transitions from there home countries, Belgium and England, to the southern hemispheres of NZ and Oz.