Creatives often work independently, which can be difficult and impact progress.
Whether you are a student, a professionally practising artist, or a personally practising artist, mentoring can offer a way forward if you are feeling confused about your direction and hindered in your development. Mentoring, unlike technical study with an experienced individual, can provide direction, answer niggling questions, and pave new ways forward.
A lifetime of careful observation through drawing and a career as a creative, self-employed individual have given Soula Mantalvanos valuable experience in self-representation, autonomy and business operations.
Consider mentoring if you are serious about a regular art practice, whether you wish to pursue a commercial career or simply enjoy creativity.
Soula can support you by:
- helping you feel more confident about your creativity
- bringing clarity to your ideas
- helping with the evaluation of ideas, expression and catharsis
- encouraging broader thinking and development
- learning about various creative mediums
- helping establish your brand
- directing social strategy and advising how best to use social media
- learning how to sell artwork
- Advising on building websites, and
- Assisting in the development of bodies of work for exhibition or portfolio presentation.
This mentoring is suited to:
- Art and/or design students
- Practising artists at any stage
- Beginners seeking to set up regular practice
- Creatives transitioning or reassessing their direction
- Artists with a professional personal practice
- Individuals who are curious and enjoy creative investigation
- Individuals seeking constructive feedback and criticism
Mentoring may include:
- Talking through work to gather greater confidence
- Clarifying artistic direction and identity
- Developing artist statements, bios, and personal narratives
- Navigating gallery representation, exhibition, grant and art prize opportunities
- Pricing, editioning information, and commercial decision-making (where relevant)
Are you a teacher?
Feel free to contact Soula to organise a guest workshop day with your class. Soula has made greeting cards and bookmarks with prep schoolers and mentored Year 12 students as they embark on their final year and seek guidance on preparing their portfolios for the University they intend to apply to.
Time
Thursday to Sunday, hourly between 10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Cost
$180 per person
More about Soula Mantalvanos
Queenscliff Gallery (QG) Director, Soula Mantalvanos, has been working in the creative industry for over 20 years, designing successful creative solutions, exhibiting her artwork and since establishing QG, curating and working closely with artists and collectors as a gallerist.
View Soula Mantalvanos’s work.
Complete the form below and add the hourly mentoring option to your cart to confirm. Soula will be in touch to confirm the details soon.
