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Here’s what podcast guests, listeners & viewers are saying:
“Tim is super easy going, made me feel totally relaxed even though I was nervous, he is the perfect person to conduct these kind of interviews, which felt more like a stimulating chat, or crit, which I loved. He is not egotistical at all and just really keen to meet artists and learn about their practice, 100% would recommend doing an interview with him!”
Maggie, podcast guest & documentary film collaborator-producer
“Fantastic. Very relatable 🙌 There were some key points in there that made a lot of sense in the current season I’m in. Thank you Aleks and Tim”
Jessica, podcast listener/viewer
“Tim, oh my god! Thank you so much for that wonderful video. And that b-roll is gorgeous. Thank you, I’m very privileged to have that; that is just so amazing. Thank you for sharing me and my art.”
Laura, podcast guest featured in a short film
“I really was touched by how this artist found words for his own inner process. I can relate to how I used art to deal and overcome challenging feelings and live circumstances.”
Sai, YouTube viewer
“Thanks for having me on, mate. It definitely feels like the most honest and unfiltered I’ve been on a mic. I really enjoyed it.”
Tervo, podcast guest
About Tim
Dr Tim Butcher
Visual Storyteller, Photographer, Filmmaker
Following a 20-year academic career across leading universities in Australia and the UK, collaborating with communities and organisations, including the people of Papunya and Counterpoint Arts, Tim founded ConnectCurateCreate to give underrepresented artists a fair go, by producing solutions to the systemic problems he identifies in his most recent book, 'Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together,' published by Routledge in 2023 — more about the book below.
Testimonials
“Tim’s unique and important background in research surrounding creative labour truly empowers his latest endeavour, ConnectCurateCreate. This platform is built not only on deep knowledge, but also significant passion. Tim is a great listener, thinker and this next development will garner the ability to empower creatives of all kinds of backgrounds, and I look forward to seeing how it develops.”
Zara Sully, Director, Sawtooth ARI, Lutruwita
“In previous collaborations Tim could be trusted to centre artists and arts workers’ interests and arts practices. His curiosity about people, his creativity and passion for fairness match Tim’s knowledge of how complex systems work and concepts made accessible. Inventing ConnectCurateCreate looks to bring all of Tim’s experience into one platform that all kinds of creatives and organisations would find interesting and enabling.”
Dijana Rakovic, Senior Producer, Counterpoints Arts, UK
Founded on Tim’s research
Creative Work Beyond Precarity: Learning to Work Together
Tim’s book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance arts and creative careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy.
Endorsements of the book
"In this beautifully written and strongly engaged text, Tim Butcher shows how creative work might be liberated from precarious labour through a systematic focus on collaboration. Weaving skilfully between theories of affect, precarity and learning and stories of artistic practice, the outcome is an impassioned argument for realising new possibilities within creative economy"
Prof. Steven D. Brown, Nottingham Trent University, UK
"Tim Butcher raises a number of provocative questions: Can we work creatively and freely without experiencing precarity and complicity with labour market logics? Can the creative arts contribute to discussions of equality, marginalization, and social change? He addresses these questions through a blend of academic sources, artist reflections, and his own experience."
Prof. Ann L Cunliffe, FGV-EAESP, Brazil
Quotes from the book
Work is so much more than what is individually traded as labour — it should be a life affirming collective cultural encounter filled with possibility, and if it doesn’t feel that way, then we should do something about it. (P68)
Creative work is not found to nor benefits from precarity. So, from these fresh roots, new collaborative creative work practices might be learned to propagate an alternative discourse — one that is less economically driven and more culturally meaningful. (P69)