Encore: Jasmine Dowling: Balancing Art, Life, and the Creative Tightrope

About this episode

Jasmine Dowling discusses the balance between commercial work and personal creativity in an unfiltered conversation with Arielle Thomas.

"The more I want the work to be the focus, the more I pull back sharing myself. I want the work to speak." — Jasmine Dowling Welcome to Process: Encore! In this archive series, we’re spotlighting the foundational conversations that continue to guide our creative community, completely untouched from the day they first aired! This week, we are taking you back to a hotel room in Brisbane where Arielle sat down with one of Australia’s most distinct creative eyes: multimedia artist in still and motion creation, Jasmine Dowling. Jasmine has spent over a decade navigating the fragile balance between commercial partnerships with global mainstays like Longchamp, Mecca, Chanel, and Hermès (just to name a few) and the highly intentional, low-fi personal practices that keep her creative spirit alive. In this unfiltered conversation, she opens up about the reality of executing work that is entirely yours. In this episode: The 40/30/30 Split: Balancing unpaid personal exploration, client work, and paid social partnerships. The "Slave to the Eye" Paradox: The endurance required when your hands are working overtime to match the vision in your mind. The Low-Fi Medium Strategy: Ditching the heavy…

People in this episode

Host: Arielle Thomas

Guest: Jasmine Dowling

Topics covered

• art
• creativity
• commercial partnerships
• personal exploration
• low-fi practices
• creative process

Keywords

• multimedia artist
• creative balance
• client work
• personal projects
• artistic process
• corporate bureaucracy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Longchamp, Mecca, Chanel, Hermès

Places: Brisbane

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