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The art podcast sharing the beautiful and brutal truths about building a creative life. International artist Kate Florence hosts honest chats with inspiring and successful artists all around the world, answering the questions no one else talks about: money, creative burnout, galleries, and actionable strategies to build a sustainable creative practice. We get into the nitty-gritty of the parts that don't usually make it onto the feed — the breakthroughs, redirections and the hard-won lessons of building a real art career. From art business to artist mindset. Nothing is off the table. Because the more openly we share, the better the creative journey gets for all of us.
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- 1 weeks ago25 min
Permission to Copy - with Kate and Flick
On this week’s episode, Kate and series regular Flick are discussing the ethics and etiquecy of copying.Imitation vs. inspiration, and the cold hard truth that no idea is completely original. In a world of instant gratification and limited patience, where everyone wants the destination without the journey, ideas are being copied and pasted left, right and centre.But where do we draw the line between inspiration and stealing? Is copying ever okay? And how do you develop your own creative voice when everything has been done before?From finding your artistic style to navigating copycats and creative ownership, Kate and Flick unpack the messy grey area between borrowing ideas and making them your own.Check out Nitty Gritty's insta! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago51 min
You Call That Art? — with Alma Berrow
This week Flick and I are back in London with artist Alma Berrow. Self-taught, Alma calls herself an artist who works with clay rather than a ceramicist. Her sculptural installations turn everyday objects into something humorous, surreal and quietly loaded: ashtrays, oysters, Ritz crackers, pomegranates, a lone gherkin placed beside a bowl of them.We talk about how having no formal training became an advantage, why she still can’t make a vessel, and what she took from a three-month residency in Montana. We get into the point where her art career stopped feeling like play, her fear of becoming “Ashtray Girl,” and the stranger at a show who wondered aloud whether she’d turn out to be a one-trick pony.Alma also shares how she found her way back to joy in the studio and the gallery owner who brought gender into a negotiation. She explains how months of research into myth and folklore become a full tablescape, including the one she’s building for her first solo booth in Miami this December.It’s a conversation about making without an audience in mind, and about protecting the playful part of a creative practice once it becomes your job.See Alma's work here, and her Instagram here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 29, 202632 min
What an £83k Month Looks Like — with Tabby Booth
I’m back with illustrator, artist and curator Tabby Booth for round two! A year after her first Nitty Gritty episode, we caught up outside the Tate Modern for a chat I'm very excited to share.Since we last caught up, Tabby has launched her Substack, Cult of Create, where she shares more of the inner workings of her practice — money, motherhood and the truths of being a working artist. We talk about why she’s building more of her creative world away from the Instagram algorithm, why buyers can make the best sellers, and how to know when it’s time to stop saying yes.And yes, we get into the £83K month. Tabby breaks down her biggest month to date and the mix of paintings, art fairs, print-on-demand, licensing and other income streams behind it.If you haven’t listened to Tabby’s episode from last season, it's just as insightful as this one.Find Tabby's:~ Instagram here~ Substack here~ Website here~ Gallery here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Sep 1, 202618 min
Stop Confusing Fans with Buyers — with Kate Florence
Got a big following but no one's buying? I'm flying solo today to break down the difference between building an audience of peers and one of buyers, and why your approach to content makes all the difference when it comes to selling art online.I get into why attention doesn't equal intent, how "process content" can bring about students instead of collectors, and why clarity (not virality) is what actually sells your work. I also share the exact question I ask myself when I'm stuck on how to present my art online, and why confidence in your work matters just as much as the work itself.If your engagement's high but your sales aren't, this one's for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Aug 18, 202648 min
Does Dark Art Have a Home? — with Arne Ohlsen
This week Flick joins me in Copenhagen for a chat with artist Arne Ohlsen.Arne started his art practice in Australia while working as a carpenter, painting on wooden offcuts because canvas was out of reach. He gained momentum quickly, exhibited at several shows, and moved into a full-time creative practice before returning to Europe, where the work turned darker, leaning into identity, isolation, power and struggle.We talk about the real differences between making art in Australia and Europe, whether struggle actually produces more emotionally powerful work, and what happens to a practice when the desire to sell starts shaping what gets made. We get into his decision to keep carpentry alongside his art career, the pull between experimentation and building a recognisable style, and why his version of success isn't commercial art stardom but a nice studio in a warm climate.Arne also opens up about his discomfort with being seen, how comparison in the art world knocked his confidence, and the challenge every working artist faces: promoting your work without becoming a version of yourself that doesn't feel real.Find Arne on Instagram here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Aug 4, 202650 min
Too Pretty to Be an Artist — with Bombony
Should your work look like an extension of you?This week, I sit down in Lisbon with Ukrainian-born, Portugal-based textile artist Bombony. Best known for her geometric textile works, Bombony draws on her background in architecture to create intuitive compositions that balance structure and softness, allowing meaning to reveal itself over time.As a single mother and full-time artist, she's built a sustainable creative practice spanning painting, textiles and sculpture, finding the intersection between fine art and interior design as a way to create on her own terms.In this conversation, we explore the relationship between artist and artwork, the tension between image and identity in a male-dominated art world, how motherhood sharpened rather than limited her practice, and the role of cultural displacement in shaping an artistic voice.Find Bombony on Instagram here or visit her website here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jul 21, 202656 min
How to Actually Sell Art — With My Own Marketing Strategist
This week we’re getting a crash course in Marketing 101 with the person who markets me — Felicity “Flick” Brown, my marketing and brand strategist, plus basically 55 other jobs in one.For the past 18 months, Flick has helped me scale my art business, and now we’re finally sitting down to unpack exactly how we got here — from landing on my new marketing plan to all the trial and error attempts we made along the way.We get into the purchasing funnel and why selling high-value art is a much longer game than a simple impulse buy. We talk vanity metrics, why ‘how-to’ content might not be converting the way you think, and how world-building and storytelling can actually help you sell.Flick explains why the why behind a piece can matter more than the how, whether artists should embrace being elusive or build a front-facing persona, and why sometimes you just have to try on different content styles until you find what actually fits.If you're a working artist trying to figure out how to actually market your art career and sell your work, this one's for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jul 7, 202647 min
Stop Making Excuses — with Adam Baker
Nitty Gritty is on tour with me while I move around Europe and this week I'm in London with oil painter Adam Baker.In his practice, Adam focuses on intimate, imagined snapshots of queer life and love, drawing on personal experience to build fictionalised narratives that speak to the emotional complexity of contemporary queer identity.Baker often investigates the contradictions of connection — how queer spaces can feel electric with possibility yet, simultaneously, deeply isolating. Through merging figures, geometric structures and atmospheric environments, he subverts traditional depictions of masculinity, revealing the vulnerability, strength and fluidity inherent within queer relationships.Both being emotional lil human beans, we talked about the woes and throws of allowing feeling to drive your creative practice. When art from the heart becomes something slowly killing you — substance abuse and pain as a necessary medium — what happens to you as a person? Do we need all of this suffering to make good work, or is just being human enough?Find Adam on Instagram here and on his website here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The art podcast sharing the beautiful and brutal truths about building a creative life. International artist Kate Florence hosts honest chats with inspiring and successful artists all around the world, answering the questions no one else talks about: money, creative burnout, galleries, and actionable strategies to build a sustainable creative practice. We get into the nitty-gritty of the parts that don't usually make it onto the feed — the breakthroughs, redirections and the hard-won lessons of building a real art career. From art business to artist mindset. Nothing is off the table. Because the more openly we share, the better the creative journey gets for all of us.
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