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Does Monetising Your Art Kill Creativity?
For many artists, makers, musicians and creatives, there comes a moment when a difficult question arises: What happens when money enters the equation? Does turning your passion into a business damage the thing that made you love it in the first place? Or is earning money from your creativity simply part of becoming a professional artist? These were some of the questions I explored recently with artist David Lau on my podcast. Creativity Before Commerce One thing David and I h
Liz Dees
Jun 243 min read


Midlife Creativity: Why Starting Later as an Artist Can Be a Superpower
The myth of the “young artist” is everywhere. We’re taught to imagine creative success as something that happens early: the teenage prodigy, the art school graduate, the musician discovered at 21. But for many artists, creativity doesn’t truly come into focus until much later in life. In the first episode of the Liz Dees Art Podcast, artist Liz Dees sat down with painter and former BBC radio presenter Phil White to talk about midlife creativity, starting again, and why life e
Liz Dees
May 184 min read
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