Artist Mentoring with Ida
Mentoring for artists who want clarity, momentum, and sustainable growth.
My mentoring supports artists to deepen their practice, articulate their ideas with confidence, and build working lives that are both ambitious and sustainable. Our sessions are focused, thoughtful, and practical, offering strategic guidance alongside conceptual depth. This is a space to think clearly, make aligned decisions, and move your work forward with intention.
Hi, I’m Ida. Let me introduce myself.
I am a practicing Artist, Educator and Artist Mentor from Australia, currently based in Berlin.
Since 2020 I have mentored artists privately from Adelaide to Mumbai, the UAE to New Mexico. It has been my absolute joy to watch Artists bloom in the form of successful applications, conceptually rigorous exhibitions and artwork sales, to confident artworld networking, an organised handle on the business side of practice and enhanced art/life wellbeing.
Being an artist myself, I understand that the general way of doing things doesn’t always work for us; each one of us has a different energy, flow, style and outlook. In a career where imagination reigns, technique is unique to the hand that bears the tool and the 21st century state of social/economical/cultural multitude is upon us - individual mentoring is more essential than ever.
I can’t wait to meet you! Scroll down for more information.
How it all works:
Mentoring sessions take place on Thursdays, between 7am – 9pm CET (Central European Time)
Sessions are themed so that we can have a supercharged hour (although you can just have a general session too!) You will always leave with tangible processes, tools and worksheets to support you after the session has ended. Scroll down to see the themes!
Standard rate: $160 AUD per hour. Conversion to your currency will happen after check out, be sure to check your rate beforehand.
Accessibility Rate: $95 AUD per hour. I offer 3 x Accessibility sessions per month, reserved for those navigating financial pressure or transition periods (limited to one per person, per month).
Booking Sessions Times occurs through Calendly. Here is the link.
Questions? Email me at hello@idasophia.art or use the form at the bottom of the page.
Choose a session to match your needs:
I mentor within clearly defined themes so our time together can be focused, intentional, and genuinely useful. By choosing a theme in advance and completing a short questionnaire, I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly where you are. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum, and ensures you leave with practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Please note the sessions are in AUD and booking an available time can be done here on my Calendly Calendar
This session supports artists in building a sustainable, informed, and values-aligned financial relationship with their practice. Together we look at your possible income streams, pricing, funding strategies for long-term practice sustainability, while addressing the emotional and structural realities of money in the arts. The focus is on clarity, confidence, and creating financial structures that support your work rather than drain it.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
This session offers thoughtful, rigorous and tender feedback on works in progress or recently completed projects. Together we examine concept, form, and your intention, looking at how the work is communicating and where it might benefit from further enquiry. The aim is not judgment, but dialogue, clarity, confidence, and creating next steps for development.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
This session supports artists at any stage of the residency process, from research and applications to preparation and reflection. We work on selecting the right opportunities, shaping proposals, planning outcomes, and integrating residencies meaningfully into your practice and life. The aim is strategic clarity and confident preparation.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
This session is for artists wanting to articulate and commit to a clear artistic vision. We work on identifying what you are moving toward and what you truly desire. We discuss how to set goals that are both ambitious and realistic and crucially, how to support them with mindful processes and evidence. The focus is on alignment, intention, and building momentum.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
This session supports artists at the early stages of a new body of work. Through conversation, questioning, and structuring, we clarify the core ideas, materials, references, inspirations, stakes, and directions of the work. It’s a space to untangle concepts, test intuitions, and leave with a stronger sense of what the work wants to become.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
A spacious, reflective session for artists needing perspective, grounding, or recalibration. This can hold multiple threads at once: work, direction, energy, doubt, or decision-making. The session adapts to what is most present for you, offering clarity, reassurance, and gentle guidance forward.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
A session for artists seeking sustainable and productive styles of working. We look at rhythm, structure, energy, and habits, and how to build a practice that supports both output and wellbeing. This is about creating conditions where work can happen consistently, without force or exhaustion.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
A supportive session for artists wanting to build meaningful, sustainable professional relationships from those that exist and are desired. We look at how to connect without burnout or performativity, identify aligned communities and individuals, and develop strategies for reaching out, following up, and maintaining connections. The focus is on networking as a relational, human practice rather than a transactional one.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
I offer a limited number of reduced-rate sessions each month to support accessibility and care. These are available by self-selection for those who need them, with one reduced-rate session per person per month. No explanation is required, simply choose this option at booking if it’s the right fit for you.
Designed for artists navigating grants, residencies, exhibitions, and open calls, this session focuses on strengthening how you articulate your work. Either generally or on a specific application, we work on clarity of language, strategic positioning, and aligning your ideas with selection criteria, while keeping your voice intact. You leave with clearer drafts, sharper focus, and greater confidence in how you present your practice.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
For artists preparing for solo or group exhibitions, this session supports both the conceptual and practical aspects of exhibition-making. We look at scope, coherence, pacing, logistics, marketing and audience experience, alongside personal capacity and timelines. The intention is to reduce overwhelm and support meaningful, successful experiences with showing your work.
1 Hour session held on Zoom with Ida
After booking, you will receive a short questionnaire so I can prepare more deeply for your session and tailor it to exactly what you need. This allows us to work with greater clarity and momentum.
You will receive practical tools, processes, and worksheets that continue to support your practice long after our session ends.
Booking: Thursday’s between 7am and 9pm Central European Time
Once you have booked this session, you will receive the Calendly Calendar to book a time with Ida.
“I wish every artist had the opportunity to engage in mentorship with Ida Sophia. When I first met Ida she was a guest lecturer with the World of Co Artist Residency I was a part of, and she taught us about performance and participatory art. I remember waking up at 4AM in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to attend a lecture she was giving virtually over zoom from her home in Australia. I had thought about skipping these early meets but after the first session with Ida I made it a point to wake up before dawn each time she was leading a discussion. Ida teaches and mentors with such a depth of knowledge, support, grace, and encouragement that would ground me for months after just one hour together. I have many tools in the form of exercises, readings, and mantras that I return to time and again for support thanks to my mentorship opportunity with Ida. I cannot recommend her enough. She is pure gold.”
Margaret R Thompson, US
Get In Touch
Questions? Big Ideas? Need someone to bounce off or need help in your practice, like now and are not sure where to start?
Send me a message and I’ll be in touch with you as soon as possible.