Artist and Writer Elinor Rowlands speaks with Sam about navigating a creative career as a neurodivergent person, and the work they’re doing to support other autistic / ADHD artists thrive with their Magical Women project.

In this episode we speak about:

00:00 Coming up in this episode 

05:58 What Elinor believes creative practice offers that is essential for neurodivergent artists 

08:44 Barriers Elinor’s experienced in their career they relate to being autistic 

10:00 Elinor’s experience of 'abeism' and reaction to 'outsider art' 

22:27 The challenges of identifying the type of support one needs to thrive

23:50 How Elinor found the right kind of professional support and what that looks like in practice

27:05 The creation and evolution of magical women, an initiative bringing together marginalised women and non-binary artist

47:30 Elinor’s creative practice and how they’ve incorporated stimming into their methodology

Throughout this episode i’ve included some audio-visual examples of Elinor’s work, more of which is available on their website.

Click title to read: 'Beauty in the Gothic: Forms of Autistic Aesthetics' 

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