059 Generosity, art and finding commonality, with Victoria Powell

07/10/23 • 55 min

My guest on the podcast this week is the wonderful Dr Victoria Powell. Victoria is a writer and lecturer in modern and contemporary art. In 2021 she set up The Gallery Companion, a Substack publication which explores the ideas about life, culture, history and politics that you find in art. She aims to break down the perception that contemporary art is hard to understand by avoiding confusing art speak and talking about it in language that makes sense.

In today's episode:

Why Victoria's teaching, writing and podcast matters in engaging discussion and debate in a respectful way
Finding the things we have in common to bring people together and increase understanding
Personal experiences of rejection and how that impacts the work
What you can get from art if you allow yourself to be unsure
How the Gallery Companion got started
Building your voice from starting small and imagining you're writing or speaking to one person
Not chasing the money and finding the value in other ways
Joys and opportunities of podcasting
Investment in each other and generosity of spirit.
Being okay with uncertainty

Mentioned in the episode: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, Megan Phelps Roper https://www.thefp.com/witchtrials

Substack - https://substack.com

William Kentridge https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/william-kentridge

Victoria's links:

https://www.thegallerycompanion.com

https://www.twitter.com/thegallerycomp

https://www.instagram.com/thegallerycompanion

https://www.facebook.com/thegallerycompanion

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-victoria-powell/

Sarah's links:

Reach out to me on my Linked In page: www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfoxcoach/

Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahFoxCoach

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CksnPQ2IMr1/

My website: https://sarahfox.co.uk/

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In today's episode:

Why Victoria's teaching, writing and podcast matters in engaging discussion and debate in a respectful way
Finding the things we have in common to bring people together and increase understanding
Personal experiences of rejection and how that impacts the work
What you can get from art if you allow yourself to be unsure
How the Gallery Companion got started
Building your voice from starting small and imagining you're writing or speaking to one person
Not chasing the money and finding the value in other ways
Joys and opportunities of podcasting
Investment in each other and generosity of spirit.
Being okay with uncertainty

Mentioned in the episode: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling, Megan Phelps Roper https://www.thefp.com/witchtrials

Substack - https://substack.com

William Kentridge https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/william-kentridge

Victoria's links:

https://www.thegallerycompanion.com

https://www.twitter.com/thegallerycomp

https://www.instagram.com/thegallerycompanion

https://www.facebook.com/thegallerycompanion

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-victoria-powell/

Sarah's links:

Reach out to me on my Linked In page: www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfoxcoach/

Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahFoxCoach

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CksnPQ2IMr1/

My website: https://sarahfox.co.uk/

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058 Purpose, the how and starting with self, with Tom Andrews

This week, on Do Good & Do Well, I'm chatting with Tom Andrews.

Tom is Head of Member Support at ACEVO supporting Chief Executives of charities and social enterprises. He is the founder and ex-CEO of two pioneering charities: Music for Change and People United. Tom is a qualified coach and counsellor and enjoys inventing games, ambient music, silent retreats and football.

Things we talk about:

The thread through Tom's working life that hasn't been planned but that come from purpose
How do you go from idea to action and keep going in the early days of setting up
What lessons Tom learned from setting up an organisation that he wants to remember
How to 'stay in your own lane' when you have loads of ideas
Why the question 'how' is so important when the drive is for outputs, outcomes, targets etc.
What the challenges are for charity leaders right now?
Remembering the joy and what is going well is important
Starting with self first to enable things to really happen
Is it possible to put yourself first when you're tackling social justice?
The ASP theory - created during the recording!
Remembering the light with the dark
What's the biggest gift we might give ourselves

Links mentioned in the episode

Marketing without the ick workshop https://misty-thunder-738.myflodesk.com/

How To Stop Brooding DGDW episode https://pod.fo/e/152a4f

To Be List DGDW episode https://pod.fo/e/d4a1e

Acevo - www.acevo.org.uk

Tom website -www.tomandrews.org.uk - go to contact form to get in touch

Music for Change https://www.musicforchange.org

People United https://peopleunited.org.uk

Sarah links - Reach out to me on my Linked In page: www.linkedin.com/in/sarahfoxcoach/

Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahFoxCoach

Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CksnPQ2IMr1/

My website: https://sarahfox.co.uk/

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Next Episode

060 Co-leadership with Dr Claire Antrobus and Sandeep Mahal

On this week's episode of Do Good & Do Well, I've got not one, but two guests: Dr Claire Antrobus and Sandeep Mahal!

It was an absolute delight to welcome Claire and Sandeep onto the podcast to talk all about co-leadership. And we covered a lot in our chat! We talked about:

what is co-leadership and why is it important?
how co-leadership can respond to systemic inequalities in the arts and cultural sector
what it's like to be part of a co-leadership model
the benefits of co-leadership including wellbeing, equity and inclusion
why equity is at the heart of what we do thing
how co-leadership can improve profit, resilience and stability
what co-leadership has to do with freelancing
what are the risks and how to overcome them
what to include if you're suggesting shared leadership with the board or in an interview process
next steps

CLAIRE & SANDEEP'S LINKS:

The co-leadership library https://coleadership.info

Millimetres 2 Mountains https://www.millimetres2mountains.org

RSC https://www.rsc.org.uk

Rising Arts, Bristol https://rising.org.uk

Keri Jarvis https://kerijarvis.com

Western Jerwood creative bursary https://jerwoodarts.org/programme/weston-jerwood-creative-bursaries-2020-22/

Birmingham Museum Trust https://www.birminghammuseums.org.uk

Hear Matt Peacock talk about Arts and Homelessness International - podcast episode https://pod.fo/e/ac65c

Creative Black Countries

Contact Sandeep on Twitter https://twitter.com/readwithsandy or email mailto:[email protected]

Contact Claire on Twitter https://twitter.com/claireant or www.claireantrobus.com