I want to work with you to help you realise your creative potential. Gift yourself or somebody you know the opportunity of mentorship. Put the solid plans in place to make your intentions a reality.
“Thank you for your time and attention. I could feel you were really listening and hearing me. The deep listening you speak of is something I embed in my practice. It’s rare to meet other people who do it so well, understand its importance, recognise it. I’m so glad I asked for this time with you it’s helping me massively”
Bernadette Bone, Visual Artist
My ethic and approach
Simply put, my way of working and creating is not separate from my way of living and being.
It’s a principle, a belief – a methodology if you like – that sees the unique and original potential in every individual and situation, and begins there. By honouring the unique idea of you, the right and original thing will happen.
“The mentoring I had rooted me back in the soul of who I should be at a point where I was losing myself. Our conversations totally helped me refind what was lost inside and unlock my new path and life. Anne Louise is a wonderfully gleaming soul.”
Jo Brewerton, Qualified Play Therapist and Tutor for Tutors in Prison
This is a living practice, and so it guides everything I do. So whether I am the artist or curator, mentor or facilitator, I begin with the idea, and the person (one and the same) and their drive and optimal well-being, and our work follows from there.
In practice this can often mean joyfully disrupting the existing structures and borders around us, locating a different kind of energy and starting point, unlearning, then cleansing and healing together, and then building back up with new ideas.
My collaborators, in fact all human beings, instinctively know how to do these things. I support them to pursue themselves back to the source.
Words and concepts associated with me and my work include healing, inspiring, energetic, liberating, queer, holistic, unlearning, neurodiverse, somatic, shifting, playing, subverting, deconstructing.
At the heart of my creative drive is a desire to instigate positive social and personal change. I named my CIC Instigate Arts for that very reason.
There are lots of ways we can work together in lots of different settings, get in touch and let’s talk.
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I bring every part of myself and my experience into my mentoring, and take time to listen deeply, understand and connect with you creativity and where you are at. As such mentoring it tailor made to support you and nurture what you need to realise your self and practice as is right for you.
Over the past 15+ years a broad variety of galleries and museums, councils, educational establishments, councils and projects have funded my mentoring of others so they can have free access to it.
Working independently mentoring begins with a free telephone consultation for us to connect and establish the most nourishing path forward. After that you pay £65 per hour or pay for one of my packages, such as:
Four hours – £200
With this offer you split the four hours into two brainstorming and intention setting sessions, or four weekly hour long sessions of ongoing support and accountability.
Mentoring Day £150
A 3 hour session in person that can be booked on Fridays or Saturdays and take place at my house in my studio in Stockport. This will include deep consultation and conversation, and then a variety of potential creative play including music, tarot, drawing, paint work, exercises intended to take you outside of the familiar, to unlearn, re-find and reform yourself and your ideas from. I can also work from your studio space for this session with prior consultation.
Mentoring Monthly subscription £100:
An initial hour long session to understand your core drive, blocks and needs followed by 4 whatsapp chats across the month to unpick thoughts, provide inspiration or prompts, feed back on ideas and direction and keep you inspired and creating
Different courses can be created and tailored to your need. Drop me an email to arrange a call. I really look forward to hearing from you.
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“ I worked with Anne Louise early in my career at a stage when I was trying out lots of new ideas and experimenting across art forms and she supported me wholeheartedly to not only try out my ideas but to platform them in meaningful ways in galleries and museums. I collaborated with Anne Louise both as an artist and as an artist led organisation and her energy to curate feminist, Queer and radical shows and events was infectious and inspiring at a ver vital moment for me. The experimentation that was nurtured with support from Anne Louise led on to what is now an established practice with exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield, Frieze Sculpture and Tate St Ives. I believe sometimes the best art education and development comes from our experimentation and collaboration with peers and I am thankful that Anne Louise Kershaw was a peer, collaborator, colleague and a friend on this creative journey.”
Ro, Robertson
Anne Louise Kershaw. 