GRACE MANIFESTO
Whilst my art manifesto focuses on the purpose of what I am doing and the way in which I am doing it, this more lighthearted Grace Manifesto is a set of reminders to turn to in times of doubt and challenge. Feel free to steal from it!
1 Not knowing is part of the process.
2 I am a work in progress working on works in progress.
3 I do not need to justify how I spend my creative time to others.
4 Wanderings and non-linear progress are totally permissible. Lost is another way of
saying ‘on an adventure.’
5 I have the right to change my mind, my direction, my privacy levels, my medium, my
genre, my career.
6 Mess happens.
7 Slow is not a criticism. It is descriptor of a valid process.
8 A work can be finished when it has contributed enough to the development of my
process not only when it is suitable to be exhibited or sold.
9 Not everyone will understand what I am doing. That’s OK. I don’t always understand
what I am doing. Therein lies the joy of finding out.
10 You can be an artist even if you can’t draw a face.