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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 painter, drawer and photographer Joshua van Gestel. Joshua has been making and exhibiting work since 2001, travelling extensively through Australia, Asia and India to seek inspiration, and using his practice to raise awareness for humanitarian organisations across the globe. He also works full time as an educator at Australian Retirement Trust. The surprise topic: juggling the career and art balance.

What started as a conversation about how to hold a corporate career and an art practice in the same hands turned into something neither of them expected. By the end of this conversation they realised they had spent the entire time creating a verbal vision board and holding each other accountable to the future versions of themselves. That is just what happens when two artists get on the phone.

In this honest unplanned conversation two artists talk about what it actually looks like to juggle a high pressure corporate career alongside a serious art practice, how Joshua built his own studio during COVID and how that one decision changed everything, going from feast or famine creativity to a consistent daily practice, why his paintings now take 100 plus hours when they used to take 10, how the studio became a crucial part of his mental health and wellbeing, taking his blood pressure every day and what the results told him about the studio, landscapes of influence and the deeply personal body of work he is currently making, and why your creative passion does not have to wait for retirement.

If you love art podcasts, conversations about the real life of a working artist, or you are someone juggling a career and a creative practice and wondering if it is possible, this one is for you.

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Joshua van Gestel Relevant Links:

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Joshua van Gestel on Instagram HERE.

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