Do Good and Do Well
003 Freedom, Adventure and Legacy with artist Christina Peake
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Episode notes
Christina Peake is a British Bajan visual artist, educator and researcher recently awarded the Turner Contemporary Digital Commission. Her practise is rooted in learning, immersive experience and engagement with the natural world and communities creating new worlds that are as mercurial as the stories that informed them.
In this episode we talk about:
- The need to question, be honest and aware about what it means to 'do good'
- How doing good doesn't make you a superhero
- Pleasure activism and helpers high
- Christina's process and artistic practice
- Understanding and reconnecting with your own community and environment
- Impact on self and family when working as an artist and balancing commissions, parenting and homeschooling
- How our work is a nourishing and energising act
- Christina's values of freedom, adventure and legacy and how that has played out in 2020
- Christina's digital commission with Turner Contemporary - The Sacred Ecologist
- How art and creativity can support mental health and wellbeing
- Climate change and leaving a legacy for our children
Links: Follow Christina on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisillena/ Christina's website: www.christinapeake.com Women@TheWell: https://watw.org.uk/ Turner Contemporary: https://turnercontemporary.org/news/23/10/2020/turner-contemporary-commissions-3-new-virtual-artworks-that-will-launch-online-this-autumn/ People Dem Collective: https://www.peopledemcollective.com/ UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021: https://ukcop26.org/
If you're making a positive contribution to the world in some way and would like to be part of a supportive network to connect with other changemakers and explore doing good and doing well, join my free Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/do.good.do.well
Sarah Fox: www.sarahfox.co.uk Email Sarah Fox: [email protected]
Edited by Ryan Nile for Pure Creation Media