{"id":22079,"date":"2017-03-09T15:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=22079"},"modified":"2017-03-09T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T15:52:30","slug":"be-bold-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/be-bold-for-change","title":{"rendered":"How to become a successful artist? 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It\u2019s nothing more complicated than that.\u201d<br \/>\nSpeaker <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caroleannedavie?lang=en\"><strong>Carole-Anne Davies<\/strong><\/a> the Chief Executive of the Design Commission for Wales, emphasised the importance of \u2018authenticity\u2019 and being open to opportunities.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22086\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22086 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/3-625x349.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22086 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/3-625x349.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> &#8220;Don&#8217;t apologise, don&#8217;t explain, be yourself,&#8221; says Carole-Anne Davies.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cA lot of your success is about who you are,\u201d explains Carole-Anne. \u201cAnd the key characteristic, which I would recognise is \u2018authenticity\u2019. You have to be who you are because you can\u2019t maintain being somebody else. Put yourself in the way of opportunity. Say yes even though you have no ideas.\u201d<br \/>\nThe idea of authenticity was also important for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarenDellArmi?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><strong>Karen Dell\u2019Armi<\/strong><\/a>, Contemporary Jewellery Artist and Director of The Association for Contemporary Jewellery.<br \/>\nShe highlighted the importance of five As: Awareness, Authenticity, Attitude, Alignment and Action.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiffmet.ac.uk\/artanddesign\/staff\/Pages\/bethangordon.aspx\"><strong>Bethan Gordon<\/strong><\/a> highlighted the importance of not thinking you have to have all the answers. \u201cYou learn a lot about yourself when you throw yourself into the deep end. Initially I thought you needed all the answers but actually what I learnt was that you don\u2019t need to know where to go to get the answers.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22083\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22083\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/2-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22083\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/2-625x349.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> Bethan said: &#8220;Do not be afraid of having a part-time job to achieve what you actually want to do.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nOther speakers included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffmet.ac.uk\/artanddesign\/staff\/Pages\/cathdavies.aspx\"><strong>Cath Davies<\/strong><\/a>, Principal Lecturer in Constellation area in the SACD, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melissahinkin?lang=en\"><strong>Melissa Hinkin<\/strong><\/a>, Artes Mundi\u2019s Exhibitions Officer and independent curator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celf.cymru\/arts-in-wales\/creative-wales\/creative-wales-archive\/awards-2012-13\/zoe-gingell\"><strong>Zo\u00eb Gingell<\/strong><\/a>, Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/uncategorized\/m-a-d-e-hosts-gig-to-promote-welsh-talent\">Cardiff M.A.D.E. gallery<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/intangiblestudio.co.uk\/ipfc\/davida-hewlett\/\"><strong>Davida Hewlett<\/strong><\/a>, Fine Art Lecturer at CSAD and Practicing Artist.<br \/>\n\u201cYou are probably not going to be working in the thing that you studied forever, or maybe even ever ever. So, you know, you\u2019re gonna be doing something else. Doing a degree gives you all kinds of experiences and transferable skills. And you can do anything with it afterwards,\u201d says one of the speakers and the Dean of CSAD <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jolwen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Olwen Moseley<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22274\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22274 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/1-1-625x349.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22274 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/03\/1-1-625x349.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" \/><\/noscript> The event was held on the first floor of SCAD<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight successful women in creative industry gave tips of success to young aspiring artists at Cardiff School of Art and Design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":22225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-22079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to become a successful artist? 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