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Living By Making · 17 episoder

A Woman Called B
13. aug. 2026 47m

In this episode of Living by Making, I tell the story of a woman called B. B is an artist. She lives in Denmark. She makes things, worries about mone...

Inherited Stories About Money
30. jul. 2026 33m

For years, I believed my fear around money came from being an artist. But what if the story began much earlier? In this episode, I reflect on ambitio...

The Artist Who Looked Away
28. jun. 2026 52m

For eleven years, six months and twenty days, I have counted time differently. In this episode I reflect on addiction, ambition, shame and the strang...

Congratulations! My big solo show in 2018 and I wanted to get drunk.
11. jun. 2026 34m

In 2018, I was given the opportunity to create a monumental wall painting as part of a solo exhibition in a large gallery built around an empty swimmi...

The Vertical Lines - From Local Market to Museum Show
28. maj 2026 31m

In this episode of Living by Making, I share the story of spending four days alone at a local market in Denmark, trying to sell my art from a small te...

How I Ended Up Working with Murderers
4. maj 2026 36m

I share fragments from my life:
living on almost nothing,
standing in a supermarket unable to choose,
and working for years inside a prison with men c...

Who Gets to Belong in the Art World?
28. apr. 2026 15m

This week, I received a working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation — after fifteen years of rejection. In this episode, I reflect on what it means...

Will the Past Catch Up With Me Soon
13. apr. 2026 24m

This episode moves between past and present, between memory and the act of making. It is about drawing, painting, and trying to hold on to something ...

What is the role of the artist today?
7. apr. 2026 33m

A poetic reflection on the role of the artist in a capitalist world. Between money, meaning, and a night walk in the forest, I explore what it means ...

Working Class Artist
30. mar. 2026 28m

From preparing breakfast for Airbnb guests at my farmhouse in Denmark to thinking about class, grants, day jobs, art school debt, and what it means to...

Can You Stay True and Still Make a Living?
22. mar. 2026 24m

What happens when your integrity and your survival pull in different directions? In this episode, I reflect on the tension between staying true to yo...

Is It Worth Continuing to Make Art When I Cannot Pay My Rent?
15. mar. 2026 21m

What does it mean to continue making art when it does not pay the rent? In this episode, I reflect on the quiet panic that can live alongside a creat...

Addiction, getting sober and making art.
8. mar. 2026 28m

In this episode of Living by Making, I reflect on the years when alcohol quietly became a way of coping with anxiety, pressure, and doubt. Through mem...

Four years after my graduation and homeless
27. feb. 2026 25m

I had 3.5 pounds. No address. And I was told to go back where I came from. This episode moves from chronic pain and no income in the countryside to...

Panic Attacks and Solo Shows
20. feb. 2026 21m

What happens after your first solo show fails? In this episode, I share the two years I spent in Glasgow — navigating money, mental health, ambition, ...

I thought I was the next Tracy Emin
12. feb. 2026 18m

My first solo show in London in 2010 — and I didn’t have the money for it. If this episode speaks to you, you’re welcome to join my monthly letter fo...

Money as a Constant Background Noise
4. feb. 2026 18m

Meet me at my Degree Show in Fine Art (2010). This episode begins there — at the moment where money, hope, ambition, and fear quietly start to hum in...