Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020

Fall into Focus program / NOVEMBER 2023
Warren Ward
Australia
www.warrenkward.com
About
I am a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and writer of narrative
nonfiction. I draw on the techniques of fiction to bring European
cultural history to life. My first book, Lovers of Philosophy,
explored the intimate lives of seven philosophers -- Kant,
Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida -- and
how their love lives shaped their ideas. Currently working on
Salonnières, which explores the lives of seven women whose
circles of writers and artists each shaped an important
epoch in European cultural history. Three of these women
-- George Sand, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf -- are quite
well known. The other four -- Isabella d'Este, Catherine de
Vivonne, Marie Geoffrin, and Henriette Herz -- are all but
forgotten despite their massive contributions to the history
of the salon. I'm also interested in reintroducing salon-like
gatherings into our contemporary lives as a way to facilitate
nourishing, embodied discourse and connections amongst
artists, and as an antidote to the fragmented, shouty, online
spaces that plague us today.
Salonnières
Extremely happy and recharged after my month at Arteles.
Completed edit of Salonniéres, getting it down from 130k to
99k words. Also found/wrote a new ending for the book.
Also really helped my mental health. Found my own natural
rhythms. Sleeping. Walks in Forest. Preparing food. Sauna.
Beautiful new friends. Meditation. Jamming with Jukka.
Reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.
Saw a majestic moose. Heard a rat-a-tat woodpecker. Said
hello some flitty yellow-faced birds at my window. Watched
the snowscape drift dreamily from pure white to pink-blueperiwinkle.
Loved my cosy afternoons in the library under a blanket on
the couch reading The White Goddess.