Extraordinary Creatives

What Art Can Do About Climate Change? - with Alice Sharp and Rana Begum

What can art do about climate change that science, facts, and frightening headlines can’t? That question has driven curator Alice Sharp for more than fifteen years. As A

When Research Hasn't Become Art Yet

At a recent exhibition opening, I was talking with an artist whose work I admire. We were looking at work that was beautifully made and meticulously researched, yet someh

Learning How to Really Look, Understand And Uncover The Story with Daniel Crouch

How does a sixteen-year-old looking for beer money become one of the world’s leading dealers in rare maps, selling extraordinary objects for millions and occasionally out

What Four Days Learning About Trauma Taught Me About Creativity

What if the thing that you keep calling procrastination, lack of confidence or self-sabotage isn’t quite what you think it is? What if one part of you desperately wants t

Preparing for Viral Success Without Burning Out with Freddie Yauner

What do you do when an artwork you’ve been quietly developing for years suddenly goes stratospheric? And how do you turn a hit into a career-changing opportunity without

Stop Hoping Somebody Will Discover You

“I don’t know enough people” might be one of the most convenient lies artists tell themselves. And before you get cross with me, hear me out. If you tell yourself, you d

What Creativity, Leadership and Community Mean When Your Life Changes Drastically with Andrea Grover

Andrea Grover has spent nearly thirty years championing artists who take risks. And right now, she’s taking a few of her own. She’s turned her dining room into an experi

When Someone Else's Envy Lands on You

Today, I am talking about a feeling that most of us know intimately. A feeling that most of us don’t talk about: Envy. This episode is about both kinds, which turn out to

The Journey Back to Yourself: Letting Go of Who People Expect You to Be with Gabriella Cilmi

My guest today is the wonderful Italian-Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi. Many of you will remember her breakthrough hit Sweet About Me, which became a glob

The Work That Didn´t Sell

I was watching The Big Deal, the new programme with Steph McGovern on the BBC, and I came away with more thoughts than will fit into one episode. Most of them can wait. T

Why Returning to “Failures” Can Be the Most Creative Act of Your Life with Wreckless Eric

Some artists spend their whole lives trying to outrun the work that made them famous. Others spend their lives trying to find their way back to themselves. Today's gues

You're Not Avoiding the Task, You're Avoiding the Feeling

There is a page in Emma's notebook that has been written out, in more or less the same words, most weeks for months. Five things on it. Email the curator she met last sp

What Does It Really Take To Create Extraordinary Work With Another Person With Ain Bailey and Elaine Mitchener MBE

What does it really take to create extraordinary work with another person? Not just the exciting bits of making, but everything that happens behind the scenes. Building

When Your Big Idea Becomes Your Big Job

I was looking at an artist’s proposal recently for a really significant exhibition, and it was one of those proposals where you can immediately see that the artist has re

What If Creativity Is Really an Act of Investigation? With PJ Raval

PJ Raval has spent his career asking a deceptively simple question: whose stories are we willing to see, and whose stories have we been taught to ignore? He's an award-w

How to ask for what you need without becoming 'The Difficult One'

'I don't want them to think I'm difficult.' I've heard that sentence more times than I can count, usually about four minutes after somebody has told me the best news of

Why Making Bad Work Is the Secret to Great Art with Simone Brewster

Welcome back to Extraordinary Creatives. Today's guest is the remarkable Simone Brewster. Simone is an artist whose work moves between sculpture, painting, jewellery, fur

What Chronic Illness Taught Me About Creativity

There's something I've been thinking about for quite a while now. It's something I've talked about with close friends, but hardly ever publicly. Not because it's a secre

Drawing with Light, Playing with Time with Reuben Wu

I first met Reuben Wu when I was Director of Exhibitions at FACT in Liverpool, and he was one of the coolest musicians in the city, co-founding the band Ladytron and shap

Why Avoidance Feels So Productive

Welcome to the Extraordinary Creatives Podcast. I'm Ceri Hand. A former gallerist, curator,  now coach to creatives all over the world. I help them to make a bigger impac