Personal Statement: A Career As A Creative Career

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them creatively” according to v Robert Greene. And as a creative professional, I have arrived at a place in my professional development where I have gained skills and experience in different creative sectors. And I am now wanting to combine them and add a new dimension to steer my career in a direction that is creatively broad, distinctively design orientated and sector wise wide-ranging.
My application is derived wholly from an inner desire to begin producing experiences with the use of art and design, therefore expanding my skills and the sectors I can work in. I also desire to better position myself for collaboration, leadership and directorial output as I would not be limited to conceptualisation but will have an outlet (medium) of design and further scope of narrating the story within the venues and spaces of the work created. I would thus be on par with my collaborators which will shift me from my current position of reliance on them to bring my ideas to life, and place me in an equal position of partnership and contribution to enable exicusion.
I have participated in and produced music, drama and most recently visual arts. My avenue of participation has altered as I have matured and encountered different life events. In the beginning of my creative journey, I
We had a passion for music and dance and during my late teens this manifested into actual engagement. Performing arts became an outlet of expression for my personal life experiences and from there my evolution as a creative began. When I finally made the choice to pursue art as my vocation and profession, it was at a key moment in my life. I made a conscious decision to start doing what I love and loving what I do. I no longer wanted financial gain to be my primary motivation to work. I yearned for job satisfaction and fulfilment, and for me I knew this lied in the creative