Art Without a Commercial Outcome with Lucy Hersey
About this episode
Julie Battisti interviews artist Lucy Hersey about creating art without a commercial outcome and the complexities involved in the creative process.
Today on The Creative Kind, I’m talking to artist Lucy Hersey, who lives and works in South Gippsland, Victoria, creating paintings made from earth pigments she gathers and processes by hand. Lucy’s work is deeply connected to landscape, not just visually, but materially. She collects clays, rocks, and natural pigments from the land around her and turns them into paint, creating works that are literally made from the places they depict. But this conversation isn’t just about materials or process (though this might have to be a follow up episode!) We’re talking about something I think almost every artist wrestles with at some point: what actually happens when you try to make work without thinking about whether it will sell ? Artists hear that advice constantly “just make the work,” “don’t think commercially,” “follow the work” but the reality of doing this is usually more complicated then it sounds. Lucy talks openly about the tension between commercial work and non commercial work, the strange freedom of being given permission to work without a sales outcome attached, as well as some of the other things she learnt about herself and her work through this process. You can find Lucy…
People in this episode
Host: Julie Battisti
Guest: Lucy Hersey
Topics covered
- art
- commercial vs non-commercial work
- landscape painting
- earth pigments
- artist freedom
- creative process
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Clarence Studios, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Instagram, substack
Places: South Gippsland, Victoria
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