Is the question of making money from your art an uncomfortable one?

Is it the money that defines the success for you or is it the money that makes it a commercial endeavor?

How do you feel about yourself as an ‘artist?’

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The start of the global pandemic coincided with a personal crisis coming to a head in my own home. My world was crumbing around me and it felt like I would never be able to take another photograph ever again.

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Who would we be if we weren’t afraid? What would we be capable of?


This blog post investigates the seemingly mundane and destructive fears that paralyse us. The fears that often hold us back from progressing in our artistic life and how connecting with others can help us to overcome these fears.


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I was raised in a small village, it was the playground of my youth. After years of travel, I now spend most of my time in the Bavarian countryside. My main contact with the village is going on a walk, a daily ritual. The walk is a physical necessity, my body calls for air, for the rays of the sun, for wide vistas in an open landscape. Other days, I follow the village streets, tarred ground, moving along the front gardens, man-made narrower vistas. The majority of the houses are inhabited, but the side streets are empty, I meet only few people on my trips.

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We are so excited to launch our next Special Project - Develop. Please find our guest tutor intros, and all the session dates and times to plan your calendar for the next three months.

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I recently sat with a student who was heartbroken after being isolated from a performance group that has been very vocal about inclusivity and offering a platform for disenfranchised performing artists; but it looks like that openness will only be extended if you abide by their specific aesthetic and unwritten rules about performing.

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Whose story is the landscape? Is it mine, is it yours, is it ours? Is it the landowners or the private corporations? Or is it a story more ancient, feminine, and fantastic? 

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Everything in my life, from my political opinions to my atheism to how I clean the kitchen counter is shaped by other people. The books I have read, the art I have seen, the stories I have heard, all of these influence my view of the world. I put toilet paper on seats in public places because my grandmother …

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Have you ever stood in an exhibition surrounded by sculptures, sound installations, photographs, or paintings and had a thought, "This isn't art. I don't get it?" Or alternatively, "Well, no. I wouldn’t call it art, I could have made that".

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I do not impose. I allow myself to start instinctively. I keep my mind clear for a handful of tools and inspirations that I am in love with. I play with them in different ways and slowly find my way.

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My love of walking was born out of being a shepherdess many years ago. During the winter and summer months I walked a transhumance, feet following hooves, a seasonal migration from one mountain pasture to the next. I encountered place, space, and people within a landscape …

It’s rare that my pictures make it to the finish line without being dramatically altered in some way. Ever since I became interested in photography I have been transforming images.

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Advice we all need to hear (once planet earth is done with this virus 🙄) ... but in the meantime there’s nothing stopping us researching our next big move! International art career here we come 🔥

As part of our mission at Work Show Grow and our new school program is to empower creatives to see their worth and value. We carried out some research into just how badass we are and why the world can't live without us 👊 We did this by looking at how the creative industries contribute to the global economy. We have looked at four countries.

Francesca Genovese is a curator, artist and academic in photography. She is dedicated to providing opportunities for a wider audience to learn about and enjoy photography within a gallery setting. She is passionate about mentoring the photographers she works with, supporting them in their artistic careers.

Francesca's gallery for contemporary photography, represents and exhibits the work of emerging and established artists. The gallery is dedicated to providing opportunities to experience, acquire and collect photography.

Ameena Rojee is a freelance photographer with a background in campaign production working in portraiture and documentary. Community and culture are the cornerstones of my work.

Ameena writes a regular newsletter 'Notes on Freelancing', to make becoming a freelance creative a bit less scary by sharing her own journey into self-employment.

She also runs 'of the land & us', an online journal for curious minds. focusing on people, places, and living, the journal explores our relationship with the natural world.

We are in a pandemic and many of us - including myself - have had hundreds of thousands of pounds of work cancelled. As of Saturday 23 May 2020, there does not seem to be an end in sight for the cultural sector. At Work-Show-Grow we have had to think on our feet and embrace new digital ways to bring people together. We have been offering a range of online activities to educate, entertain and keep our little corner of the internet connected. During Week 2 we had a lot of requests to take our courses online. We carefully did this by releasing the Creative Research and Connecting - Making authentic connections for your work workshops. 

Alexis Hyde is a Los Angeles based curator and project manager, who previously directed The Museum of Broken Relationships. In the last 5 years she’s focused on pop up shows in LA with Southern Californian emerging artists to engage with the local community in a way that is fun, active, and real, as part of Softcore, a curatorial partnership. Softcore host at least four shows a year ranging from one night only to month long installations. These are an opportunity to introduce artists to other artists and get peoples name out there as well as giving people an excuse to work and something to promote.

Round up: Opening week – Monday 2 – Saturday 7 July

Arles is to photographers what Cannes is to filmmakers

Totally the same concept: takes place in a beautiful old French town, involves awards, champagne, and brings together an industry…  but with Arles, just minus the red carpets, Hollywood A-listers and Uber Helicopters (yes, that’s a thing).