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£25.00
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Showing Up Before You’re Ready
How to share your work, grow an audience, and build a creative career
19th May | 6–7:30pm
Early Bird Ticket: £25 for a limited time!
Student Ticket: £22
Standard Ticket: £30
Small Fry will host an honest talk with Meg Fatharly on her own experience around building a creative life by sharing work online before you feel confident, qualified, or certain it will work. The talk will include Meg’s journey as a printmaker and illustrator, touching on her growth as an artist on and off social media and how her analogue world has overlapped with her digital presence. This will be delivered via a presentation, Q&A, and short guided prompts to help you generate ideas and take your first (or next) step during the session.
What to expect
• The reality of building a creative practice online
• Why sharing imperfect work can be more powerful than waiting for perfection
• How honesty and vulnerability create real audience connection
• Lessons from growing an audience through storytelling and process
• Practical ways to show up online and share your work without burning out
Who it’s for
Creatives, illustrators, designers, and anyone building (or wanting to build) a creative practice. You’ll leave with simple, actionable ways to start sharing your work consistently, and a clearer sense of what ‘showing up’ could look like for you. Expect an open, relaxed session with space for questions, shared experiences, and honest conversation.
About
Meg Fatharly is an artist known for her hand-embossed tin artworks that capture the thoughts we don’t always say out loud. In this talk, she shares the real story behind building a creative career online, from posting small pieces of work on Instagram to growing a global audience and collaborating with organisations including the V&A and Fortnum & Mason. Through stories from her own journey, Meg explores the fear of sharing your work, the pressure to be visible, and how showing up imperfectly can lead to connection, opportunity and a creative practice that people come back to.
Stop waiting. Start sharing. Build a creative life online - imperfectly
Showing Up Before You’re Ready
How to share your work, grow an audience, and build a creative career
19th May | 6–7:30pm
Early Bird Ticket: £25 for a limited time!
Student Ticket: £22
Standard Ticket: £30
Small Fry will host an honest talk with Meg Fatharly on her own experience around building a creative life by sharing work online before you feel confident, qualified, or certain it will work. The talk will include Meg’s journey as a printmaker and illustrator, touching on her growth as an artist on and off social media and how her analogue world has overlapped with her digital presence. This will be delivered via a presentation, Q&A, and short guided prompts to help you generate ideas and take your first (or next) step during the session.
What to expect
• The reality of building a creative practice online
• Why sharing imperfect work can be more powerful than waiting for perfection
• How honesty and vulnerability create real audience connection
• Lessons from growing an audience through storytelling and process
• Practical ways to show up online and share your work without burning out
Who it’s for
Creatives, illustrators, designers, and anyone building (or wanting to build) a creative practice. You’ll leave with simple, actionable ways to start sharing your work consistently, and a clearer sense of what ‘showing up’ could look like for you. Expect an open, relaxed session with space for questions, shared experiences, and honest conversation.
About
Meg Fatharly is an artist known for her hand-embossed tin artworks that capture the thoughts we don’t always say out loud. In this talk, she shares the real story behind building a creative career online, from posting small pieces of work on Instagram to growing a global audience and collaborating with organisations including the V&A and Fortnum & Mason. Through stories from her own journey, Meg explores the fear of sharing your work, the pressure to be visible, and how showing up imperfectly can lead to connection, opportunity and a creative practice that people come back to.
Stop waiting. Start sharing. Build a creative life online - imperfectly
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