The Slow Practice Collective

The Slow Practice Collective is co-founded by Luminara Florescu and Jules Allen. Luminara is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, artist mentor and builder of communities for the dis-belonging. Jules is a creative wellbeing practitioner, integrated counsellor, coach, and creative imaginator.

Jules and Luminara are both dis-abled, chronically ill, and neurodiverse artists/creatives.

The Slow Practice Collective grew from a need for agency. Our approach is not rooted in productivity or conventional notions of creation, but in a creative re-imagining of life itself — one shaped by curiosity, wonder, and the permission to dream. We seek to explore and embody a slower, more mindful way of living, and to share what we discover with others.

Welcome to our interactive Mind Map! Hover over the outer circles for further information about our vision.

EVENTS

The Slow Practice Collective is our attempt to decondition ourselves from our own inner ableist beliefs and behaviours, and to bring together a community of artists who face barriers to the current art world and its capitalist, hyperproductive rhetoric.

This currently takes place through weekly online crip gatherings called 'Holding Space' which serves as a virtual artists studio space. Here, creatives come to work on their own projects, rest, sleep, read, do art admin or anything they wish in silence, knowing others are 'virtually' in the room at the same time. These gatherings are Chronic Fatigue friendly with Luminara and Jules acting as the Keyholders, holding the door (portal) open and closing it again on the way out. There may occasionally be extra pop-up sessions throughout the year when we have an activity or conversation we think would benefit from a group interaction.

Holding Space sessions:

Mondays 2 - 4 pm online.

If you are an artist who identifies as dis-abled, chronically ill and/or neurodiverse and would like to join the Holding Space sessions or have any questions, please contact Luminara via the Contact Page