Me

I work with professional artists and creatives at any stage of their career, to find and maintain freedom in creative thinking, making, and living.

To find out more about me and my practice visit:

www.mirandawhall.space

I am a coach and mentor whose purpose is to cultivate freedom in your thinking, making, and living. Through my range of programmes, I will collaborate with you to guide and support you – using a non-directive and transformative approach. I will help you to unlock your potential, articulate your goals, and work with you to develop meaningful strategies to navigate your creative journey and career. Rooted in deep listening, thought-provoking questions, and an emphasis on self-discovery, my mission is to support your transformative growth through engaging directly with your uniqueness.

Coach + Mentor

I work as a Creative Steps Mentor for the Arts Council Wales.

I have a Diploma in Transformative Coaching (Animas Centre, ICF Level 2 Accredited, EMCC Senior Practitioner Level, AC Accredited).

I have a certificate in Adlerian Counselling (I am not a qualified counsellor).

I have mentor training through ‘Become a Master Mentor’ with Ceri Hand.

I have coaching training through the British School of Coaching.

I will be doing Coaching with Neurodivergent Individuals with Oxford Brookes University from Feb – May 2025.

Academic + educator

I have 30 years experience as a visiting artist in UK universities.

I was a part-time tutor at City & Guilds of London Art School (5 years), and I was a full-time lecturer at Aberystwyth University (19 years): where I led the Creative Arts degree scheme (10 years) and Interdisciplinary Practice module (19 years).

I am currently PhD supervisor and module lead for M.A. Fine Art and Art History. I have been External Examiner at Bath Spa and University of Plymouth.

I have organised numerous site-specific student exhibitions, international residencies, and visiting artist programmes.

I was a freelance networking events manager for Baltic Contemporary Art and A-N Artist Information Company.

I have been an educator in schools, museums, and galleries e.g., for BALTIC Contemporary Art Gateshead.

Artist

I have 30 years experience as a practicing and internationally exhibiting artist.

I have exhibited in private and public galleries, museums, biennials, and non-art spaces and sites.

I have received over £100,000 in Arts Council funding (England and Wales), including a Major Creative Wales Award.

I have collaborated with 140+ creatives and non-creatives. I have commissioned 20+ multidisciplinary creatives. I have participated in 18 international artist residencies.

I have recently been awarded a £25,000 grant from CO2RE, the UK’s national research hub for Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR), part of a broader £30 million initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

My Practice

I am a visual artist living and working in West Wales, where I currently engage in both solo and collaborative practices.

I work from my very small studio (in my very small garden), in the field (the Cambrian Mountains), and in the theatre. In the studio, I am engaged in an ongoing meditative and labour-intensive practice of durational drawing – analogue clouds – that are the accumulation of hundreds of thousands of written or pin-pricked data points derived from environmental scientific studies on the impact of climate change on natural phenomena such as soil, seeds, peat bogs, and glaciers. In the theatre I direct, produce and platform multi- modal, interdisciplinary live theatre performances – I invite musicians, composers, and dancers to collaborate in live, generative, experimental improvisations in response to scientific data. Recently, in the mountains, I staged an embodied durational performance where I lay in a self-dug ditch for 24 hours, reciting the live data stream emitted from a surrounding soil sensor network to global audiences via live-stream video.

My life

I am 55 years old, I live with my fiance, 15 year old son on a hill, adjacent to a wood and overlooking Cardigan Bay.

After 18 years of full- time teaching and during the luxury of a year- long sabbatical (research leave) I came to realise that it was time to leave my full- time post with Aberystwyth university and take the giant leap toward establishing a portfolio career; artist, creative coach, mentor and part time lecturer. It was the most terrifying and best leap of faith I have ever made. I was able to make the decision and the transition thanks to undertaking coaching, so I know first- hand the value and impact coaching can have. Making the transition towards living a life I want to live and taking my time back for my myself and my practice has been deeply empowering and now motivates me to help others navigate their own challenging transitions.

My love for coaching

Coaching is both exhilarating and deeply humbling. Working with practising artists and professional creatives is an absolute honour and privilege. After each one- to -one session I come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the courage, commitment, tenacity, drive, love and freedom that it takes to be a creative, and an ever- stronger knowledge of the value of creativity, and creative practitioners.