/// THE WATER TOWER WORKS - WHAT THE FUNDING MEANS ///

As you may have seen last year I have been awarded @aceagrams Develop Your Creative Practice funding (The Arts Council, with the money coming from the National Lottery) for my Water Tower Project.

The funding doesn't require a set tangible outcome but instead is to help you dedicate set time to progressing your skills/practice to help you get to the next step. A step change.

After graduating I made good progress with my work then the pandemic hit and everything came to a standstill. Then when things "got back to normal(!)" I found myself spending the majority of my time teaching as I needed to recoup some of the lost earnings from that time. I got lost in a cycle of teaching, and the endless hours expected outside of teaching, unpaid, which really sapped my creativity. I no longer had the time, or headspace to give my own practice the time needed to get me back on track. Because I needed to earn money, and as we all know being creative takes time upfront, to then make something which hopefully sells down the line. I'm just not in a position financially to do that.

And that is where this funding steps in. It is going to pay for me to get various bits of skills training, some mentoring, some research (more about all these later), and best of all some paid time each month for 7 months for me to be creative. To have the luxury of time to allow ideas to gather momentum.

I am starting off with a 30 sketches in 30 days project, which I will talk about further in a separate post (because instagram doesn't allow enough space to do it on this one).

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England