Resources
Browse past webinars and resources from the Create Growth project...
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The Path to Creative Growth Rebecca Robinson (The Growth Playground)
Drawing on her experience of working with startups and entrepreneurs, Rebecca will share her advice on how best to grow a creative business. Covering strategies for building good business practises, optimisation of income and resources, and navigating the protection of your authenticity as a creative whilst maximising revenue opportunities. The session will provide practical steps which help remove imposter syndrome, reduce stress around finances and resources, and help you plan your path to growth.
Rebecca is a seasoned startup coach contributing to notable initiatives like Creative UK’s Scaling Up, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s Create Growth, Baltic Ventures’ Accelerator, and the UK Space Agency’s Fusion investment programme. Rebecca helps founders identify opportunities, build businesses with solid foundations, and bring ideas to life efficiently with limited resources. She has guided digital, tech, creative, and screen-based entrepreneurs in launching, scaling, and attracting investment, helping founders secure over £15m in SEIS funding. Her expertise spans offer diversification, scaling strategies, business optimisation, and customer acquisition. Rebecca is skilled in using user research to craft compelling value propositions and impactful marketing messages which make people listen. All the while, she ensures the journey is enjoyable, because life is too short not to have fun while building a business.
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Using VR, AR and XR in your Visual Art Practice Tom Millen (Crossover Labs)
Tom is an award winning digital producer and a co-director of Crossover Labs, an arts organisation that focuses on cross-disciplinary collaborative approaches in art, storytelling and technology. Crossover’s core mission is to support artists to make great work and open up the arts to the broadest possible audience.
As a producer his work has been shown at a wide range of places including The Barbican, BBC, Ars Electronica, SXSW and MoMA. In 2023 he won the SXSW XR Jury Award for Karen Palmer’s Consensus Gentium.
Tom has curated programmes of digital art for international festivals around the world including CPH:DOX, Sheffield Doc/Fest, The International Film Festival of India, Silbersalz Science and Media Festival, Bergen International Film Festival and the Adelaide Fringe. He is deeply embedded in the international XR industry and am a consortium member of Immersive Arts, a programme distributing £6 million of support to digital artists.
His lab programmes accelerate artist’s projects to the next level of their development and bring together creators from multiple disciplines to spark new collaborations around the latest modes of expression using technology.
This webinar includes an interactive Q and A segment moderated by Darren Chouings (Media Consultant in Residence at The University of Derby).
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How to Scale your Creative Business / Mural Art and Large Scale Graphic Commissions Geo Law and Rob Lee
Geo Law
Geo Law is a British born Chinese illustrator who hails from Sheffield and is currently based in London. He has created artwork for the likes of Google, Walt Disney Animation Studio, Paramount Plus, TikTok and the like in the form of murals, stickers and animation with experience that spans 15 years in the field. Geo's art style is a blend of many inspirations such as comic books, retro video games, street art and Japanese visual culture that fuels his drawings, doodles and sketch based work but when he's not creating he's an avid reader, a lover of coffee, a former cook who still cooks and a watcher of cinema.
Rob Lee
Rob Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily on large scale, site-specific, geometric art.
In both private and commercial commissions, his work uses pattern, repetition and abstraction to explore the concepts of perceived reality, illusion, and the complex relationship between technology and nature.
Rob has been fascinated with science and robotics since he was a little boy and the systematic rhythms of mechanics and engineering are huge influences on his design practise. Starting out in printmaking, then progressing through 2D animation on to 3D modelling and more recently perspective anamorphosis and Trompe L’oeil, the relationship between form, structure and perception is a constant theme within his work and repeatedly challenges and shapes his working process.
This webinar will also include an interactive QandA segment moderated by Darren Chouings (Media Consultant in Residence at The University of Derby).
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Arts Council Funding Webinar
Lucinda White of Pure Awards talks us through the Developing Your Creative Practice funding and the application process.
The Creative Funding Digest Newsletter
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Then why not sign up to the ‘The Creative Funding Digest’ newsletter from the University of Derby, designed to support creatives in the Derby and Derbyshire region. Keep up to date on all the latest funding opportunities that’s currently available.