Journal

When Your Creative Practice Stops Growing Recently, I embarked on a period of mentoring. I felt stuck in my practice - happy with the work I was making but feeling unsure of the next steps. I was feeling constrained, and I honestly couldn't see a way to push my work forward into its next evolution. I'd found myself in the quiet, cul-de-sac of my comfort-zone, when what I yearned for was challenge. This kind of creative block something so many mid-career artists go through; we

Where does inspiration come from? And can we ever put it into words? I'll have a go.

Growing up with dyspraxia impacted my childhood - but I only recently realised how much it impacted my artistic practice too.

Creating an artistic practice that draws on influences from diverse crafts

What does it mean to create from materials that are broken? How do we find and ascribe value, and what does it mean for our relation to the things around us?

How can your personal history form the basis of your artistic practice? There are so many ways!

Use these five steps to overcome creative block and develop your artistic projects

Anna Masters walks you through her creative process in designing a site-specific exhibition

Though it's not always obvious, words have always played an important role in my work. I’m interested in the origins of words, how words...