{"id":1400,"date":"2024-01-10T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2024-01-10T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:51:28","slug":"a-reflective-start-to-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/weekly-updates\/a-reflective-start-to-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A reflective start to the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s Tuesday &#8211; time for a wee update. . .\u00a0 been sorting and contemplating on what I might do in 2024 . . Reflecting on 2023 I did quite a lot &#8211; a lot more exhibiting that I expected which was great; the PG courses with Contemporary Art Academy which really brought a new focus and understanding to my practice and the SSA mentoring programme, which really helped me focus and build good habits.\u00a0 Both experiences allowed me to connect with some really supportive and\u00a0 talented artists.\u00a0 Now I think I need to take a bit of time in January to take stock and start planning for this year. Hopefully 2024 will be just as rewarding.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sheila&#039;s weekly update: 9 January 2024\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmYOtre5ru8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday &#8211; time for a wee update. . .\u00a0 been sorting and contemplating on what I might do in 2024 . . Reflecting on 2023 I did quite a lot &#8211; a lot more exhibiting that I expected which was great; the PG courses with Contemporary Art Academy which really brought a new focus and understanding to my practice and the SSA mentoring programme, which really helped me focus and build good habits.\u00a0 Both experiences allowed me to connect with some really supportive and\u00a0 talented artists.\u00a0 Now I think I need to take a bit of time in January to take stock and start planning for this year. Hopefully 2024 will be just as rewarding.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,26,42],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-updates","tag-contemporaryartist","tag-artistpractice","tag-artisttalking"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howsheilasees.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}