Mentorship
Develop your studio processes, handle your arts admin with tools and resources, grow your practice and realise ambitious projects through mentoring support, guidance and accountability.
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Artist Testimonials
“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 Thompson, Artist (USA)
“Ida’s mentorship continues to be a deeply enriching exchange, that offers a safe space to discuss, share, dream and wonder. Sessions with Ida are thorough, considered and perfectly tailored to honour the artist, the practice and the human- making for a broadly developed engagement that covers so much beyond just the art…
The mentor sessions have become a keystone to my work, which I couldn’t recommend highly enough. With the thoughtful guidance of Ida, I continue to expanded my creative processes, conceptual refinement, management skills and self care- all so essential to the longevity of ones practice! “
Bridie Hooper, Artist (Australia)
“Working with Ida as an art mentor has been absolutely game changing. I have tremendously benefited from her wisdom, career experience, empathy, and insightfulness. When I first started working with Ida, I was navigating a creativity block, uncertainty about the next steps in my career, and misalignment between the thematics in my artwork and my actual creative headspace.
Since working with Ida, I’ve created a whole new body of work that is in alignment with who I am, gained the clarity and confidence to apply to and attend the most prestigious ceramics residency in Europe, improved my website, sorted my artistic financial forecast, learned techniques to pitch to and network with galleries, and more.
So to any artist at a crossroads, a standstill, or in a rut, I can genuinely, and without reservation, recommend working with Ida. Your creative practice will thank you for it.”
Ré Philips, Artist (USA)