Why do we suffer for our art?
Vaughan chats with creative minds ranging from directors, stylists, performers, artists and more to learn about how people create beauty out of tragedy or how they choose not to.
"I don't always want to live in the underground. I want to be goddamn seen. And I don't just want to be seen, I want to be celebrated." - Glynn Fussell
Glynn Fussell is an LGBTQ+ icon and co-founder of Sink The Pink, Might Hoopla and East Creative. In this chapter we chatted all things joy, queer revolution and the epic return of Sink The Pink.
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2 Jul 2021
Chapter VI: Kaiya Milan
'Releases will come and go, fans will come and go, but the community you build on your journey is one of the fundamentals. Understand who you are. Understand where you're going. It works as a surrogate family'. - Kaiya Milan, CEO and artist manager
Have you ever been to Steamdown in London? Kaiya Milan manages both Steamdown and Afronaut Zu, as well as being CEO of The Floor, OffBalance Group and Black Female Founders Foundation. In this chapter of Burning In Water we discuss the importance of community and the leaps you take when setting up your own business.
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@steamdown
@afronautzu
@thefloorinsta
23 Mar 2021
Chapter V: Tamzene
'Every person who identifies as a womxn matters within feminism and if you haven't addressed that, well then the time has come.' - Tamzene is a Scottish artist, writer and musician who discusses her journey so far, her own experiences as a womxn in music and what work needs to be done to make it more inclusive to all.
11 Feb 2021
Chapter IV: Charlie George
"Failure is funny. The whole point of comedy is that you're a fuck up. It would be ridiculous not to enjoy it." - Charlie George, Comedian & Writer who has won a number of awards for her work some of which include: LGBTQ+ New Comedian of the Year in 2019, Leicester Square New Comedian Award and Pride’s Got Talent finalist. In this episode Vaughan and Charlie discuss dead end jobs, the need to put yourself out there and how to embrace your failures as funny.
11 Jan 2021
Chapter III: Ryan Wohlgemut
“You have to start from the bottom. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into. It was a night shoot in a car park and I took a bus to a place I didn’t know. I was scared but I remember feeling after the shoot: this is what I want to do.”
Ryan Wohlgemut discusses his career as a celebrity and fashion stylist, his journey to get here and how he shapes art through fashion.
16 Sept 2020
Chapter II: Ariya Gandawulf
“Our humanity will be stripped from us. It’s important that the language that people use to talk about each other changes. The world is changing."
The world needs to change. Ariya Gandawulf, artist and film-maker discusses race, cinema, and her experiences as a trans womxn of colour with Vaughan.
16 Sept 2020
Chapter I: Benedikte Klüver
“The first thing you can do is let go completely. Close your eyes and imagine something or somewhere where you don’t have any control.”
Art is in everyone. Benedikte Klüver and Vaughan draw each other as she discusses portraiture, mascara as a creative utensil and how to get started at home with your own creative practice.
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