Artist-2-Artist On-Demand: Managing Your Creative Practice with Paul McDonald

ON-DEMAND

RUNNING TIME: 57 minutes

Paul McDonald is a socially engaged artist, educator and curator whose personal practice explores masculinity and mental health. In this video Paul shares his experience in managing a diverse practice and demanding schedule while keeping creativity at the centre of his efforts.

With Co-Host Harriet Gillies he walks through his workspace showing techniques and methods he uses to effectively manage projects, deadlines, and work-flow to overcome creative blocks and generate new ideas into meaningful projects and bodies of work.

This Artist-2-Artist session aims to give you tools to clear your vision and confidence blocks and provide structure so you can better manage your creative practice.

This session is suitable for anyone with an interest in composition, Whether you are a musician, director, writer, performer, or stage/production manager, there will be something to take away from this session that will be valuable to your own creative practice.you do not need to have any practical experience with writing music; Nate will be aiming to demystify the process of scoring, and hopefully inspire new ways of thinking about, approaching, and working with music for the stage, from the creative to the technical.

About The Artist

Paul's photographic work has been published and collected nationally and internationally. He is currently working on his next exhibition and publication for international release in June 2021 by The Little Black Gallery (London). As Director of Contact Sheet which he founded in 2014, Paul has curated and presented over 50 exhibitions, presented public programs, mentoring programs, workshops, internships and developed and presented a number of participatory arts programs that engage local communities and diverse groups.

Paul has an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London, and is a lecturer at Macleay College of Journalism, National Art School (Short Courses Programs) and a guest lecturer at the University of the Arts London Master’s Program.

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