I mentor up to 12 artists each year and currently have capacity for a few new mentees.
Contact me ashcroftlouise@gmail.com if you'd like to find out more.
Most people I mentor apply for funding to cover the cost. My rates follow Artist Union recommendations.
Mentoring usually takes the form of one hour sessions in person or online.
I tend to work with artists whose practices relate to any of the following themes:
Performance
Participatory Experiences
Comedy
Politics and Critical Theory
Ecology
Sociology and counterculture
Experimental Video/Film
Found Objects
Disruption
Storytelling
The politics of care
Improvisation
Queerness
DIY culture
Collage and works on paper
Experimental drawing/painting
Interventions
Play
Neurodiversity
Experimental Writing
Publishing as performance / live publishing
I help people develop their practice and mindset critically and creatively in ways authentic to their unique perspectives and personalities (not a sausage-factory one-size-fits-all approach), so they can invent their own methodologies and have more agency over their art careers, financial sustainability, resilience and creative happiness. I understand the realities of being an artist and all the challenges it involves.
In 2023-24 I'm a mentor for New Contemporaries. I teach in the art department at Goldsmiths and have 15 years experience as a tutor / visiting lecturer at leading art schools in UK (BA, MA, PhD level) and in France. I led Artist Development at Chisenhale Studios for 5 years, where I ran Into the Wild (an artist development programme) and co-ordinated the Standpoint Futures residencies. I cofounded the alternative art school AltMFA which I co-ran for ten years. I'm often a visiting artist for UAL's Associate Studio Programme. Earlier in my career, I was Director of Exhibitions at the arts charity Departure Foundation and Floating Island Gallery which provided free exhibition and studio space for hundreds of artists in empty offices and warehouses throughout England and Wales. I have a PGCert in Learning and Teaching from Goldsmiths and have been making and exhibiting my own work in galleries, performance spaces and unexpected places since 2004.
Contact me ashcroftlouise@gmail.com if you'd like to find out more.
Most people I mentor apply for funding to cover the cost. My rates follow Artist Union recommendations.
Mentoring usually takes the form of one hour sessions in person or online.
I tend to work with artists whose practices relate to any of the following themes:
Performance
Participatory Experiences
Comedy
Politics and Critical Theory
Ecology
Sociology and counterculture
Experimental Video/Film
Found Objects
Disruption
Storytelling
The politics of care
Improvisation
Queerness
DIY culture
Collage and works on paper
Experimental drawing/painting
Interventions
Play
Neurodiversity
Experimental Writing
Publishing as performance / live publishing
I help people develop their practice and mindset critically and creatively in ways authentic to their unique perspectives and personalities (not a sausage-factory one-size-fits-all approach), so they can invent their own methodologies and have more agency over their art careers, financial sustainability, resilience and creative happiness. I understand the realities of being an artist and all the challenges it involves.
In 2023-24 I'm a mentor for New Contemporaries. I teach in the art department at Goldsmiths and have 15 years experience as a tutor / visiting lecturer at leading art schools in UK (BA, MA, PhD level) and in France. I led Artist Development at Chisenhale Studios for 5 years, where I ran Into the Wild (an artist development programme) and co-ordinated the Standpoint Futures residencies. I cofounded the alternative art school AltMFA which I co-ran for ten years. I'm often a visiting artist for UAL's Associate Studio Programme. Earlier in my career, I was Director of Exhibitions at the arts charity Departure Foundation and Floating Island Gallery which provided free exhibition and studio space for hundreds of artists in empty offices and warehouses throughout England and Wales. I have a PGCert in Learning and Teaching from Goldsmiths and have been making and exhibiting my own work in galleries, performance spaces and unexpected places since 2004.