Find the words that are truly yours

A focused workshop for artists who want to articulate their practice with clarity, confidence — and in their own voice.

Your artist's statement is one of the most important pieces of writing you'll ever do. It's the first thing a gallerist reads, the text an arts panel weighs, and the words a new audience uses to understand what you're really doing and why it matters.
And yet for most artists, it's also one of the hardest things to write. Not because you don't know your practice — but because you're so close to it that it's difficult to step back and see it clearly.
That's where I come in.
Susanne Currid is a curator, writer and facilitator who supports artists in articulating the deeper motivations behind their work. Originally trained as a filmmaker in Dublin, she was a founding member of the artist‑led collective Exploding Cinema and has shown work across Ireland, the UK and Scandinavia. She holds an MA in Art History and Museum Curation from the University of Sussex (2025), specialising in contemporary photography, decolonial theory and feminist art. Alongside her curatorial practice, Susanne brings 25 years of experience in commercial brand development and cultural storytelling, helping artists shape language that is both authentic and strategically useful.

What the workshop involves

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    Process

    I work with you to uncover the language that best reflects your creative practice — the themes, motivations and defining moments that sit at the heart of your work. Through a structured but deeply personal process, we draw out the insights and articulations that are already in you, and shape them into a statement that is precise, compelling and unmistakably yours.

    The process has two stages:

    Before we meet: I send you a set of focused development questions to reflect on and respond to in writing. These are designed to surface the personal revelations and turning points that define your practice — the moments that shaped what you make and why. Your written responses become the first layer of material we work from.

    In our session: We meet for up to two hours — in person in Hastings or online — for a conversation-based interview. I listen carefully, ask follow-up questions, and draw out further material. The questionnaire and our conversation give us a rich body of text to work with. From this, we develop your artist's statement and a shorter verbal elevator pitch: a confident, natural-sounding way to talk about your work when someone asks what you do.

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    What you leave with

    A fully developed artist's statement — written in your own voice, reflecting the true heart of your practice

    A short elevator pitch — a succinct, memorable way to articulate your work in conversation, at openings, and in applications

    Clarity and confidence about how to talk about your work — to galleries, collectors, commissioners and the public

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    Who this is for

    This workshop is for artists at any stage of their career who:

    Are developing or refreshing their artistic identity and public presence

    Need a statement for gallery submissions, grant applications or residency proposals

    Are rebuilding their website and want copy that truly reflects their practice

    Find it difficult to articulate what they do in a way that feels authentic rather than formulaic

    Want a thinking partner who will listen carefully and help them find their own words — not impose someone else's

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    Introductory Offer (First 5 clients)

    £175 (standard rate from summer 2026: £250)

    I'm offering this workshop at an introductory rate of £175 to the first five artists I work with as I develop and refine the format. This is a genuine opportunity to access a substantive, one-to-one process at a significantly reduced rate — and your feedback will help shape the workshop as it develops.

    Once the five introductory places are filled, the standard rate of £250 will apply.

    I'm also open to group or collective sessions on enquiry — get in touch to discuss.

  • "Susanne helped me clarify my artist statement through a detailed questionnaire and focused brainstorming. This process enabled me to get to the heart of my practice so I could write a true reflection of it. Her ability to listen and extract what is central to my work process made it an energising and insightful experience."

    —Lucie Feighan, Artist

A NOTE FROM SUSANNE 

I developed this workshop because I believe that every artist already has the language they need — it just takes the right questions and the right space to draw it out. The most powerful artist's statements don't describe what an artist makes; they illuminate why it matters and what drives it.
What I find most rewarding is what happens after the session. Working with artist Lucie Feighan, we spent our time together excavating the core themes and motivations behind her practice — and in the days and weeks that followed, those foundations gave her the material and the confidence to develop her own defining phrase: "I quest for essence." She's been using it ever since, in conversation, on her website, and in how she introduces herself to the world.
That's the real aim of this workshop: not to hand you a finished sentence, but to give you such a clear understanding of your own practice that the right words become inevitable.

Ready to find
your voice?

Tell me a little about your practice and where you are in your development, and we'll take it from there. 
I'd love to hear what you're working on.

Let’s Work Together