Late last year, I sat in a small room with four colleagues over a few days. Our mission was to nut out ideas and create a new arts show.The room itself was fairly nondescript, with beige walls, moss-green carpet and tables cobbled together to create a central workspace area, decorated with laptops, drink bottles, snack packs and a colourful fruit platter. In this space, robust and remarkable conversations were had about possibilities for a new kind of arts programming.
This list evolved into The Art Of…, a new arts show where each week we delve into a different aspect of the human experience. We'll speak with a range of artists who are authentically connected to the theme, probing us all to consider how their story relates to ours.The resounding theme that we collectively agreed early on had to be explored was The Art Of… Heartbreak.
Through a joint project, and via a private Instagram account that only the two of them followed, they drew and uploaded more than 300 portraits of each other. The portraits carry the studied details of one another, filled with an intimacy and honesty that subtly lets the viewer know they're getting a glimpse into this couple's candid and intimate moments. The aim was to create 500 portraits and, at that magic number, mark the moment by getting married. That day now won't happen.
On heartbreak, Ford's advices to Mountjoy is: "Challenge yourself to sit there and feel all the things it's meant to make you feel. If you are constantly avoiding what it means to converse with heartbreak, how can you possibly create art about the depths of human existence?"In learning about loss, I speak to multi-award-winning artist Emma Donovan, a certified heartbreak expert of the most soulful kind.
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