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The Healthy Artist

by Martha Lamont & Dan Curtis

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About the show

The Healthy Artist is a podcast that helps artists and creative practitioners build a resilient and aligned art practice. As practicing artists, Martha Lamont and Dan Curtis create a space to openly discuss the highs and lows, and the often unspoken challenges of being a contemporary artist. Alongside thier own reflections, Dan and Martha invite guests to open up conversations from across the art world. Navigating many of the toxic spaces of the creative world, with slowness, insight and humour, to give you tools to create a sustainable and fulfilling creative life.

Latest episodes

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In this week's episode we dive deep into what it means to be successful and discuss how we can shift from a lack mentality when it comes to our creative paths. We discuss how to redefine ambition as a daily roadmap, rather than…