Creative Londoners

27/09/2021

If you’re looking for a change and are trying to figure out what to do next…or you’ve just graduated and you’re a little lost as to where to start, this article will (hopefully) help you orientate your creative job search in London.✨ https://creativelondoners.com/how-to-find-creative-job-in-london/

This blog post covers how to find a creative job in London. It also gives you tips and strategies to make you landing a creative job a likely outcome.

24/07/2021

Meet Flo Perlin, a singer-songwriter from north London. At 23, an autoimmune disease diagnosis taught her the necessity of pausing for creative breath. Watch her video and read her story: https://creativelondoners.com/2021/07/24/inhale-exhale-flo-perlin/

How a singer-songwriter’s autoimmune disease diagnosis taught her a lesson in pausing for creative breath

25/05/2020

In late 2019, designer and illustrator Henry O'Boyle started a collection of drawings to pay tribute to the beautiful architecture of .

His mesmerising illustrations give you a new perspective on the south London neighbourhood.

Explore them in conversation with Henry. 👇
https://creativelondoners.com/henry-o-boyle-illustrations-of-brixton/

These illustrations of Brixton give you a new perspective on the neighbourhood

05/01/2020

📢London-based artists, filmmakers, designers, composers, writers, creatives. 📢

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13/05/2019

Goldrain transitioned from an already budding career in sound for film into film scoring - now she also performs live on stage. Read her story: https://creativelondoners.com/2019/05/10/distilling-human-connection-through-performance/

11/05/2019

"When you’re on stage it’s a bit more wild—in a sense it’s all about the connection you have with yourself and the audience. People clap to your blood, sweat and tears and that gives you real confidence." Meet Goldrain, a London-based music artist embracing a new creative direction: https://creativelondoners.com/2019/05/10/distilling-human-connection-through-performance/

How a thirst for adventure helped this music artist turn a lack of clarity of mind into a pursuit into a life that’s truly hers.

20/03/2019

could mean an end to forgery in the art world. We spoke to Lorenzo Belenguer, a London who accepts payment through : https://bit.ly/2TQgn72

Artists and art experts in London, the UK’s biggest art hub, are actively seeking ways of incorporating blockchain into the sale of artworks.

30/01/2019

Experimental poet Michal Szost collaborates with machines. Read his story: https://bit.ly/2RSWJ9z

29/01/2019

"It felt like home. I just thought ‘I have to move here’.” It felt like my place on Earth." Experimental poet Michal Szost went to London with a week's suitcase and never left. Now he's embracing with poetry: https://bit.ly/2RSWJ9z

How moving to London helped this experimental poet take initiative in creative projects

26/10/2018

19/10/2018

Art by Anne-Claire Fleer makes bold, energetic art on canvas, bodies, and photographs: https://bit.ly/2R6Vn6r

18/10/2018

Art by Anne-Claire Fleer left a career in finance to become an . Here's how: https://creativelondoners.com/2018/10/18/transforming-the-body-into-abstract-expressionist-art/

How this creative left a career in finance for a career as an abstract artist

27/09/2018

"I think I was just existing. I’d get the bus to Shepherd’s Bush, get the tube to Bond Street, and go to work. I was drinking, working, drinking, working, and sometimes even drinking whilst I was working.” Read about how Madeleine Godill became an artist: https://bit.ly/2R4i3Vm

24/09/2018

"Painting feels natural. I don't overthink or worry. I just find it very peaceful." Meet Madeleine Godsill, a London who makes vibrant watercolour paintings of women: https://creativelondoners.com/2018/09/22/painting-the-female-experience/

How a month of turmoil prompted this creative’s rebirth as an artist

21/09/2018

Photographs by Michael Wayne Plant

Find out how political events led this creative to shape her own voice in film: https://bit.ly/2NTTsUP

06/08/2018

"To keep sane, I do other things outside work, such as music. Nietzsche said, ‘Without music, life would be a mistake’—I couldn’t agree more.”
https://creativelondoners.com/2018/08/06/improvisation-as-a-way-of-life/

Meet the project manager navigating a music career around his full-time job

14/07/2018

As an actor goes deeper into his craft in search of meaning, acting and life begin to dissolve into one another: https://bit.ly/2zDQfmc (Photographs: Michael Wayne Plant)

22/06/2018

"What I want is for clients to feel like coming to Atelier Tammam is like going back a hundred years. You walk through the door: the service is impeccable and you’re given what you want."

Step into House Of Tammam and learn not just about the ethics of fashion, but about what it took for its founder Lucy Tammam to turn her ethics into the bespoke couturier service her atelier provides today: https://creativelondoners.com/2018/06/22/handcrafting-a-sustainable-future/

How determination helped this couturier create a viable alternative to fast fashion

16/06/2018

Get your admin and marketing out the way in the company of other creatives: https://bit.ly/2t0w4sP

Take a tour of the coffee and wifi hotspots where creatives get their admin done

09/06/2018

Give your creativity space to breathe with these tips from a filmmaker, motion graphics artist and songwriter on where to go for inspiration: https://bit.ly/2kXkdHD

A filmmaker, a songwriter and a motion graphics artist share places that inspire them

20/05/2018

You're looking at the work of London-based artist , who began his career in his 30s and whose name is now in art history books. Read his story on Creative Londoners:

https://creativelondoners.com/2018/05/17/being-your-own-competitor/

17/05/2018

"I think you are an artist because you are born an artist. You are not made; you're born. You have the need. I‘m not sure why or how or if it’s genetic code. But you are an artist because you have the need to make art. You will make it regardless of whether you sell it or not. You just keep making it."

Read about the time when, in his 30s, London artist picked up the paintbrush for the first time, and how it led him to be who he is today. https://creativelondoners.com/2018/05/17/being-your-own-competitor/

How an unexpected dead-end allowed this artist to embrace his true self

03/05/2018

"There’s never been a project that’s felt so important that we need to make it right away, until this one. This is the project. And I’m so happy it is." You're talking to filmmaker and director Cassandra Virdee about her upcoming project 51 States, a dystopian thriller about life in an all too possible future supremacist state. Read her story on Creative Londoners: https://wp.me/p99YUv-Nf

How political events inspired this filmmaker to craft her voice

24/03/2018

"When I look back at it, I realise: I didn’t yet understand the concept of consistency, and I’d never really grasped the idea that if you truly want something you’ve got to work your butt off to do it. It’s not going to come easily. You have to keep on going.”

Aesthetic Candy founder, Karine Jones, spoke to us about the true meaning of consistency. Read the interview on Creative Londoners.

https://creativelondoners.com/2018/03/23/styling-beyond-fashion/

How a change of mindset allowed this fashion stylist’s career to flourish

28/02/2018

"I’m definitely out of my comfort zone. Two years ago, I never would have done something like this – you know, sit for an interview and pose for photographs." Juned Ahmed shares the story of how he got to this point and the obstacles he's faced to get here: https://creativelondoners.com/2018/02/27/dissolving-the-distinction-between-art-and-life/

How acting taught this performer what it means to be truly vulnerable (and how being truly vulnerable taught this performer what it means to act)

11/02/2018

"At first, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. People were giving me advice at the time, telling me I have to specialise in one thing. And I don’t give that advice to people now, especially to artists. As a young artist, you don’t really know what you want to do. It takes a while. At that age, it’s good to experiment and see what you’re best at."

Crissy Bogusz has been busy working as an artist in the Vogue Snapchat Design Team. But her latest side projects are charting new territory and creating new communities for causes of social justice. Read about how she approaches it all, and how she got to where she is, on Creative Londoners.

https://creativelondoners.com/2018/02/11/arts-power-in-the-age-of-interactive-media/

How open-mindedness led this GFX artist to the Vogue Snapchat Design Team

04/02/2018

"Jay is more laid back than anyone I’ve ever met in my life, and I didn’t know how to take that at first. I mean, he’s practically always horizontal and in the calmest, most hippy-like state, where everything is fine and the world will always be OK."

Christopher and Jay (of Wolfpack Productions Ltd.) have been producing, writing & acting in several web series in London. Read their stories here: https://creativelondoners.com/2018/02/03/working-in-web-series/

03/02/2018

"Most people said we’d be done in a couple of years, but we’re not. We’re continuing and it’s great. It’s like, “Oh my God I’m on this rollercoaster… Crap! I’m on the rollercoaster and I can’t get off!”

Read about the creators of Wolfpack Productions Ltd., Christopher Rithin and Jay Oliver Yip, and their journeys on Creative Londoners. https://wp.me/p99YUv-M8

How a chance encounter helped two actors launch their comedy careers

02/02/2018

Creative Londoners is back for 2018. We've been busy travelling around London collecting stories to bring you.

22/11/2017

"On the first day, we were asked what we were planning on writing our dissertations on. I hadn’t even finished my coffee and I had to come up with something off the top of my head. I thought: the only thing I know any real theory about is fashion. I’ve written a thesis for my undergraduate and I already have a postgraduate in creative entrepreneurship – it’s going to have to be that.

“I’m going to write a dissertation on why fashion is good for us”, I said.

Read more about Rebecca Smith on Creative Londoners.

https://wp.me/p99YUv-LN

How the transformative power of dressing became this creative’s philosophy of fashion