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Grand Designs Live – Birmingham

Posted on October 10, 2008September 23, 2020 by Leonora Oppenheim

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Leonora speaks about energy saving products in the home for Best (Eco) Footprint Forward seminar at Grand Designs Live, Birmingham. Leonora presents alongside Max Fraser (chair), Lucy Bertenshaw (WWF), Joanna Yarrow (Beyond Green) and Pooran Desai (BioRegional Quintain).

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“For many years, one of the barriers to me makin “For many years, one of the barriers to me making art was the perception that to be an artist is to be selfish. Such a negative thing to be, I was always taught. As I now commit more fully to my art, I see more and more what kind of selfishness it requires. Long days alone, thinking and making. Turning down invitations. Being more antisocial than a human should be. As someone who has spent most of my life surrounded by people, in shared housing and shared studios, this pandemic isolation has come as a bit of a shock. But it has also come with a true revelation. Now that I live on my own and work on my own, funnily enough, my art practice is flourishing.” . . . I wrote about the need to find a balance of generosity and selfishness as an artist. With thanks to @robert.poynton for inspiring me with the word ‘bondadoso’ - one of those wonderful untranslatable words that roughly means loving generous abundance in Spanish. You can read the full essay, featuring Martin Buber, Zadie Smith, Virginia Woolf, Barbara Hepworth, and many other art monsters 👹, over on @medium https://leonora-o.medium.com #bondadoso #generosity #selfishness #womenartists #artmonster #iandthou #purpleiris
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