ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING

Artists of the Blooming is a collective of artists who are interested in creating art that speaks in response to living in wild metamorphic times, in the tension of crisis, collapse, emergence and transition.

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We want to inspire art that has the power to shake the machine, rouse renaisance, rev revolution, stir the soul of the world, reveal what’s coming through the cracks, support us to remember who we are and why we’re here.

ARE YOU AN ARTIST OF THE BLOOMING?

A CALL FOR ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING

I have a wild story burning in my head. The kind of story that keeps you up at night and keeps knocking at the back of your skull.

That there are perhaps a few thousand artists on this earth, as souls at this moment of time who are meant to gather. Who are meant to find their way to one another’s door.

These will be painters and poets, lyricists and musicians. They will come from all backgrounds and cultures and together they will form a collective of artists created with a single purpose. To kick-start the revolution of the soul of our world. To start the party. To kick off the great coming out of humanity through crisis and collapse. To create art that has the power to bring humanity together beyond stories and borders. To create art so potent it shakes the machine we are living in clean to the bones.

These artists will come in many forms. Some will be shakers of the machine. Some will be revealers and tricksters of the cracks. Some rousers of renaisance. Some here to rev the revolution. Some here to stir the soul. Some to inspire the beauty. Some to support us to remember who we are.

I have this story that on a soul level there are artists who have been born at this time to rouse a renaisance in the heart of humanity, the kind of renaissance that can only come from art being created from the crack of living in a world that is falling apart and in the quaking and the shaking and the collective not knowing but the daring to dream that despite the heart-break and the horror, everything changes now, that there is hope not inspite of the crises we are living through but because of them.

I see in five years time stadiums full of artists of the blooming rocking out the heart of humanity as the civilisation we have burns and another one through us aches to come through. 

I have this story that at the end it will be art, and creativity that will show the way through, that only the wild symphonic note of creation will be left in our hearts and between us that will be enough and we'll each sigh with recognition of music of the universe living through us once more.

Maybe something stirs deep in your bones. Maybe your heart comes alive at this call, at the thought of artists riding out on the coat tails of one civilisations collapse and fall, ringing the bell that this isn't an end, but a beginning, not a breaking apart, but a cracking through, a revealing.

Maybe this artist is you. Maybe you know an artist who this is. Maybe it's time to come together to start the party?

WHAT WE ARE INTERESTED IN

We’re interested in creating art that speaks to and inspires the beauty and the possibility of what can come through the cracks of what is falling apart at this time.

We’re interested in creating art that can hold the tension of the horror and the hope, the despair and the possibility, the heart-break and reverence.

We’re interested in creating art that moves beyond and cuts through worn rhetoric and soundbite and instead aims to touch our common humanity, stirs our souls, rouses renaissance and revs creative revolution.

KEY QUESTIONS

What role do artists and art play during times of cultural and systemic breakdown and transformation?

How do we create art that can hold the tension of living inside of crisis, that holds the impacts of crisis and collapse in one hand and hope and possibility in the other?

How do we move past rhetoric, political sound-bite, hyper-polemic speech, and create art that touches our common humanity and stirs our souls?

How do we work with art as social activism, where we create public art that stirs, questions, and inspires?

What role would art play in an healthy human culture, that periodically went through phases of active collective dissolution and emergence?

EVENTS AND GATHERINGS

ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING: CRUCIBLE OF CREATION (12th July - 30th August online)

ARTISTS OF THE BLOOMING U.K: CENTRAL GATHERING (3rd-6th September -WORCESTERSHIRE U.K)

ARTIST OF THE BLOOMING: CATCHING FIRE (LONDON)

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