Claim OwnershipArt Against Mental Illness
Subscribed: 4Played: 90
Subscribe
© Copyright 2024 Alex Loveless
Description
Using art and creativity to heal from mental illness, support mental wellbeing, and recover from burnout. Interviews, philosophy, art practise and practical mental health strategies.
66 Episodes
Reverse
Alex talks from his cold, damp studio about constraints and how they can help drive creativity
Alex finds a quiet spot in his local woods and ponders the nature of feeling calm and how it's more important than ever before to find your clam, happy space.
Alex talks to multi award-winning and bestselling author of children’s picture books and romance-led emotional suspense for adults, Paula Tait, about the differences between writing for adults and kids, coaching children's authors, working with illustrators and how she managed to carve a synergistic niche writing for such distinct audiences.
Alex talks to Poet Ann MacKinnon about helping others discover poetry, how anyone can do it, and the lyrical wonder of the Scots language.
Alex talks to nature writer Keith Broomfield, author of countless books about Scottish cities and countryside, about finding nature everywhere and finding inspiration anywhere.
Alex talks to George Paterson author of The Girl, The Crow, The Writer And The Fighter and Westerwick about the love of the process of writing and his passion for the written word.
Alex interviews Val Penny a Scottish crime author known for the Hunter Wilson and Jane Renwick crime thrillers.
Alex kicks off his series of interviews with published authors with a highlights reel.
Alex revisits his 2024 episode about the role of art in society, politics and protest giving his thoughts about its increasing relevance given the events of the intervening year.
Alex kicks off his miniseries on the written word as a form of therapy by recounting his own troubled relationship and history with words, and makes an impassioned plea for valuing creativity over technical perfection, particularly in the young.
Alex talks about the role of stories in how humans perceive the world and the role that art plays within this. He explains, using stories, how an artist encodes their story into every artwork, often in a non-linear fashion. Alex also talks about how autistic people feel compelled to tell their stories as a way of empathising with other people.
Alex returns to the thorny subject of generative AI and creativity reiterating his case for AI as a valid part of the creative process, but acknowledging the ethical and moral dilemmas it poses. He discusses the current, precarious state of the AI industry and speculates of what's to come as the AI bubble is stretched to its limits.
Alex finally presents long awaited third part of his How to be Creative series, in which he takes us on a journey through the magical and maligned world of outsider art, takes aim the art 'establishment' and makes a case for having a 'just do it' attitude to creativity.
It's been exactly 1 year since I published the second part of my stuttering but stunning How to Be Creative series and I've _finally_ got round to making part 3. That's still in production, and will be with you soon, I promise! But in the meantime here's the first 2 parts neatly packaged for your listening pleasure.
Hear Alex's soothing and perhaps magical tones as he walks through some woods in the dark. Warning: this episode may contain bats and sheep!
By way of Aesop's fable, The Ass and the Lion's Skin, Alex explores the nature of identity, and how we all, especially autistics, wear a mask from time to time to hide our true selves. He discusses the indelible marks that doing so imposes on our future selves, how this leaks out into our art, and why donkeys are awesome.
Alex chats with Owen Moxey about the dauntingly wide world, both fantasy and real-life, of table top gaming, and how rediscovering Warhammer miniature painting helped him navigate the physical and psychological challenges of successive diagnoses of Functional neurological disorder, autism and ADHD.
Alex wonders the Scottish countryside and laments the lack of recognition for illustrators and fantastical artists, despite their significant contributions to art and culture.
Alex christens a new type of episodes called 'Walking Therapy', despite the fact that several episodes of the kind have already been published. In this episode he discusses the wide range of styles and approaches to drawing he observed in a workshop for kids, and ponders why this early diversity doesn't seem to carry through to the commercial art world.
Alex takes a dreamy stroll through the woods and discusses how listening to challenging music like Bach's Well Tempered Clavier can be beneficial to creativity, why finishing things is not that important, and why your destination is not the point of your journey.
Comments
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States