Embedding social impact into your creative business

Overview

In this session our current Entrepreneur in Residence, Kerry Lemon, will explore how you can build a business with purpose using her own work as the UK’s only certified B Corporation artist as one case study among many emerging models.

What will be covered?

Kerry will reflect on her own approach, including mentoring, volunteering, and prioritising womxn’s employment and support, then situate these within wider sector practices such as co-operative studios, regenerative design, and values led creative entrepreneurship.

Who should attend?

The talk will consider how artists, designers and cultural producers are embedding environmental care, social responsibility and community reciprocity into their structures, from low carbon fabrication to nature connectedness, from ethical supply chains to collective leadership. The session will invite audiences to consider how purpose can be embedded at the core of any creative practice, shaping both cultural impact and sustainable futures.

About the Speaker

Kerry Lemon is a multi-disciplinary artist and certified BCorporation, whose ecological practice includes sculpture, performance, film, painting, and photography. Her work is driven by social impact, scientific research and each project is site-specific, designed to celebrate ‘more-than-human’ and connect her audiences to the natural world around them. Central to her

eco-feminist practice is an ongoing narrative focus on womxn and flora, developed through artist residencies that culminate in her MRS ROE live art performances. Kerry has 235 unique sculptures installed across the UK, which have been commissioned by luxury brands, architects, hospitals, developers, and local authority clients. She champions public art’s potential to activate civic spaces for local, national and international communities and a more sustainable, interconnected world. Committed to legacy she celebrates biodiversity, regenerates habitats and actively mentors emerging femxle artists. WOMXN / FEMXLE - The “X” signifies inclusion of trans and nonbinary womxn.

Image Credit: Skills for interviews by Gracie Dahl, BA Illustration 2019

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This event is available to UAL current students, graduates, alumni and staff ONLY.

This event is organised by Careers and Employability, the department that empowers UAL students and graduates to make a living doing what they love.

If you believe there are any barriers to your participation in this event or you have any access requirements you wish to discuss, we would be happy to talk to you. Please contact careersevents@arts.ac.uk in advance.