Filling Your Creative Well: Ana Young on Residencies and Abstract Painting

Send us Fan Mail *Daring Creatively: Unfiltered* is an Australian art podcast where Sydney-based contemporary artist Korynn Morrison picks up the phone, drops a surprise topic into the conversation, and hits record. In this episode Korynn calls Sydney-based abstract artist Ana Young — one of Australia's most compelling painters whose practice explores time, memory and silence. The surprise topic: residencies. This conversation came at the perfect time. Korynn is about to head off on her own artist residency at The Corridor Project in Central West NSW and needed exactly the kind of grounded, honest wisdom that only Ana could give. What followed was one of the most practical and deeply inspiring conversations about what a residency actually is, what it is not, and how to get the most out of being in a completely new landscape with nothing to prove and nowhere to be. In this honest unplanned conversation two artists talk about Ana's recent residency at Lake Macquarie and what she brought back from it, why a residency is about recording and investigating not producing, how to simplify what you are looking at when a landscape overwhelms you, why going in with no research and no expectations is the best thing you can do, the installations Ana made from found materials and how they surprised even her, working with gouache in the field and why it is the most forgiving medium you can take outside, the importance of finding just one thing in a landscape and really staying with it, and why curiosity is the thing that keeps a practice alive long after technical skill has been mastered. If you love art podcasts, have ever considered doing an artist residency, or simply want to hear an honest conversation about what it really means to slow down and fill your creative well, this one is for you. **Ana Young Relevant Links:** Ana's website HERE. Ana on Instagram HERE. Upcoming Group Exhibition Current Connections at MAC yapang HERE. **Join My Inner Circle:** https://www.korynnmorrison.com/mailing-list **Visit My Website:** https://www.korynnmorrison.com/ Find me on Instagram HERE