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Ever heard of post-porn clowning? Soon it will become a household term when ABA NAIA take over the world with their incredible Berlin-based Latin-American-European performance collective! Today we had the honour of speaking with Teija and Jaika, two members of ABA NAIA. Since 2017, the collective have been exploring topics of sexuality with a comedic approach. With tools of post-porn clowning they question gender norms and its expectations, as well as the myths and stereotypes of femininity and desire. They say, “Our bodies, our sexuality and our vulnerability are our political weapons on stage. We battle the boundaries between cheerfulness and discomfort. We want to inspire and encourage our audience, to question their perceptions on freedom of self expression, sexuality, equality and pleasure.” All of this comes together in their post-porn clowning lecture performance, We Can Do It Moaning. In this episode, Teija and Jaika tell us about how practising things that make us feel awkward help to normalise it, how powerful comedy is when venturing into awkward or difficult topics of conversation, and how important vulnerability is when wanting to be funny...the clown helps us see a reflection of ourselves in our most vulnerable place. Be sure to follow ABA NAIA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aba.naia/ Website: https://abanaia.com/ Do It Moaning: https://abanaia.com/projects/we-can-do-it-moaning/ Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

Ever wondered what it's like to be part of a huge Netflix show production? Our artist today is actor and singer Sam Otto, who plays John Osweiller in the hit Netflix dystopian drama, Snowpiercer. Sam studied at Drama School London, but left his course early to perform in Richard Wilson’s ‘Fracked!’ at Chichester Festival Theatre. He then secured the lead role in Peter Kosminsky’s explosive drama, ‘The State’, in which 4 young British citizens journey to Syria to join ISIS. The show went on to receive a BAFTA nomination in the miniseries category. In this episode we talk about finding your voice when working on a big studio tv production as a relative newcomer, maintaining a creative practice outside the ‘job’, how Sam is navigating how to make the most of his colour and race when auditioning for roles, without being defined by it... and so much more. We loved meeting Sam and felt really honoured at how candidly he shared with us about his acting journey. Follow Sam online... Twitter: @sam_otto Instagram: _samotto Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

Creating is not a perfect, linear journey; and today we talk all about embracing the mess in our process with Danish-born, Berlin-based movement artist, singer and musician, Kat Polar. As an artist and creator Kat's passion is to be what she creates, to observe and live inside of it. She also explores the discipline of resisting the "fast-pace" production that is all consuming in our capitalist world, especially when it comes to promoting and sharing your art as a polished and perfect product on social media. In this episode we talk about entering the flow state while creating, the balance between being an artist and having to exist in a capitalist world, how to be authentic on social media, and how as artists we have the power to create our own realities... including our definition of success. Follow Kat on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kat_polar/ Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

Can you be a parent AND start a career as an independent artist? YES. Our artist today is German singer-songwriter, producer, and father, Robert Horace. In 2018, Robert left his full time job as a chef to pursue his dream of being a musician. He dove into the deep end of releasing his first EP ‘Take Off’ while learning all about branding, performing, writing and adapting to life as an artist. It was also at that time that Robert and his girlfriend decided to have a baby. In this episode Robert candidly shares with us the joys and challenges of balancing life as a parent and an independent musician, the importance of building an authentic brand, and we talk about how we cannot "fail" being artists. Robert is the first parent we have talked to on the podcast, and we are so excited to share his story. For any artists considering having children, or for parents who are trying to balance their career and parenthood, we hope that Robert’s story encourages you and assures you that you’re not alone. Follow Robert's Journey: Instagram: @roberthoracemusic Website & All Music Platforms: roberthoracemusic.com/linkpage/ Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

What's your main inspiration for your art? For Ellie, it's the ocean. Photographing the sea and its many moods has been her creative outlet since she was young. This flowed into the creation of her business, Island Ceramics, where she creates beautiful ceramic tableware pieces inspired by the tones and textures to be found around the coastline of Shetland, the most northerly islands in Scotland. In this episode we talk about how to get started in a creative business, the importance that nature has in our creative process, fully believing in the art that you are making, and how we can support artists who are committed to sustainability and protecting our Earth. Be sure to check out Ellie's gorgeous work and follow her journey... Website: https://www.islandceramics.co.uk/ Instagram and Facebook: @islandceramics Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

Ever wondered about how to get your songs on TV shows? Or wanted to write lullabies for new parents? Or used music and sound as a way to connect with people dementia? Or tuned pianos? Or written grant applications?...... Laura's done it all! As well as being a touring musician, she has created soooo many opportunities for herself along her musical journey and she tells us all about it in this week's episode of the Art-Work podcast. Laura Reznek is a London-based Canadian songwriter, performer, and multi-instrumentalist. She has also balanced many other roles within the music industry along the way - whatever keeps her in the world of music, she is happy to try! Since 2015 Laura has spent a majority of her time doing her favourite thing... travelling and connecting with people around the world through music. She has also had a song feature on a major TV series! You Are Bad, was featured on the Netflix drama, Tiny Pretty Things, and she tells us about the independent approach she took to getting her song placed on the show. In this episode, we talk about how the pandemic has affected touring musicians in ways we never expected, how to deal with writer's block, her upcoming album, some of the amazing community music projects Laura is involved with and creating, and so much more. This is jam-packed episode full of honesty and wisdom. Follow Laura... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurareznek/ Website: http://www.laurareznek.com/ Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! If you want to financially support this independent project, you can leave a tip in our Patreon Tip Jar: www.patreon.com/join/artworkconversation Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com YouTube: tinyurl.com/poppy-rose-meditates

How can 450 year-old plays still have meaning in the theatre today? Charlie Dupré tells us how Shakespeare has hugely influenced his practice as a playwright, actor and spoken word artist. Charlie is from London, currently based in Berlin, and has taken multiple shows to Edinburgh Fringe Festival including 'The Stories of Shakey P' which re-imagined Shakespeare as a playground battle rapper, and 'Macblair' which told the story of Tony Blair as a Macbeth-style tragicomedy. It played the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes to critical success, and Charlie tells us all about his experience taking his independent shows to these festivals and shares some amazing practical tips of things he’s learnt along the way. In the last couple of years Charlie has moved away from pursuing an acting career to discovering a love of playwriting. In this episode we talk about the importance of staying open to trying new things and how your path will reveal itself. We also talk about Charlie’s love of Shakespeare and reinventing his stories and plays with a current and topical twist, how theatre can be an amazing space to open discussion about politics and other important issues (especially in today’s polarised climate), and we also get a special performance of some excerpts from his plays and some wonderful spoken word! Follow Charlie... Website: https://www.charliedupre.com/ Instagram: @charliedupre1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/charliedupre/videos Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieDupre Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! If you want to financially support this independent project, you can leave a tip in our Patreon Tip Jar: www.patreon.com/join/artworkconversation Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com YouTube: tinyurl.com/poppy-rose-meditates

Wow this episode is powerful stuff! We need more female*, trans and non-binary music producers, and Ivy is creating a beautiful safe space for people of marginalised genders to nurture and develop their skills with her collective, Éclat Crew Berlin. Ivy Rossiter, also known as Yvois, is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty guitar pedals, warbling tape machines and a smattering of found sounds, she creates chill electronica and low key grooves in her treetop home studio. She is also the founder of Éclat Crew Berlin – a collective of female*, trans & non-binary electronic music producers. Éclat is French for an explosion of brilliance - and this project sure is! Ivy tells us all about Éclat, its purpose to provide a safe space for creating music, and how she secured funding for this amazing community venture. In this episode Ivy told us about the grieving process she went through when she let go of her past acoustic project, but how much joy her new path of electronic music has brought her. We also talk about the deeply rooted belief that many women have when it comes to music technology and the importance of creating a safe space for marginalised communities to create. This episode is packed full of golden nuggets of wisdom and connection, Ivy is incredible, so be sure to follow her journey: BandCamp: http://yvois.bandcamp.com SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/iam_yvois Instagram: www.instagram.com/iam_yvois Éclat: www.eclatcrew.com The documentary that Ivy mentioned: https://sisterswithtransistors.com/ "Why Aren't There More Female Music Producers"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ipb81z46kI And the Technology and the Gendering of Music Education book we talk about: https://tinyurl.com/3uk9zmy9 Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! If you want to financially support this independent project, you can leave a tip in our Patreon Tip Jar: www.patreon.com/join/artworkconversation Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/poppy-rose-meditates

The Art-Work Podcast is officially 1 year old! So we thought we'd celebrate with a fun, chatty, honest Q&A episode with your hosts, Brea & Poppy. We talked about things like... Where did the idea of starting the Art-Work podcast come from? How do you even start a podcast? How do you manage working with your best friend? How do you find the artists to talk to? What’s your favourite thing about being an artist? And so much more! We also feature some of the inspiring words of wisdom that our artists have shared in recent episodes as the sprinkles on top of the podcast birthday cake(and as a little reminder to go through our back catalogue and catch up on any conversations you've missed!) A huge huge thank you to all of the incredible artists we've had on the podcast over this past year. It's been a joy and a privilege to be able to share your stories and learn from your journey. And huge huge thank you to you, our listeners. We're so grateful for your ongoing support with this project; keep listening, keep sharing it with your friends, and share it on your Instagram or your Facebook, so we can share these amazing and inspiring stories with as many ears as possible. A little update going forward: from June, we'll be releasing our episodes every other week, instead of weekly. We want to be able to put 100% effort into each and every episode of the podcast, to really celebrate each artist and their story, and we've decided to give ourselves a bit more time so we can be super happy and proud of each episode. See you soon! X If you want to financially support this independent project, you can leave a tip in our Patreon Tip Jar: www.patreon.com/join/artworkconversation Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com

Let's talk about telling important stories. Theo Toksvig Stewart is a dyslexic writer and actor who trained at the Drama Centre London, and he wrote his first play Endless Second during a particularly dry audition spell. Endless Second deals with consent within a relationship and it received multiple five-star reviews as well as being shortlisted for two awards at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. It was then commissioned as an audio adaptation which was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 in March 2021. Alongside developing television ideas, Theo has been commissioned for a number of theatre projects and was part of the BBC Writersroom Drama Room scheme and the Minack Playwrights Programme. We talked about so much in this episode: Theo reminds us that what we do does not inform our whole identity, how he’s managed to lay down boundaries between work and life, the importance of asking if you’re the right person to tell a story as a writer, and his experience of taking a show to Edinburgh Fringe. We’d never met Theo before, and by the end of the conversation we felt like we’d known him for years. He opened up about the challenges he’s experienced as an actor and writer and offered a lot of wisdom from the journey he’s taken. Before you listen to this episode, please be aware that we talk quite candidly about rape and consent because of Theo’s play, Endless Second. We just want to let you so that you can make the decision that protects you. Here's a link to the Ted Talk Theo mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPoqFcvt9w Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Art-Work. Please share this episode with anyone you think would enjoy it too! If you want to financially support this independent project, you can leave a tip in our Patreon Tip Jar: www.patreon.com/join/artworkconversation Join the Art-Work Community Facebook Group to connect with other creatives, share your art, and continue the conversation about the joys and challenges of living an artistic life! www.facebook.com/groups/370788747316965 You can follow us on the socials... Art-Work Podcast Instagram: @art.workconversation Facebook: @art.workconversation Brea Robertson Instagram: @brearobertsonmusic / @florafallsmusic Facebook: www.facebook.com/brearobertsonmusic/ Website: www.brearobertson.com Spotify: tinyurl.com/y8alatg2 Poppy Rose Instagram: @poppyrosemusic / @poppyrosecreates Website: www.poppyrosecreates.com