It’s 2018 and we need to call time on life drawing groups that operate too much along the lines of the male gaze. To be clear, while this is about what heterosexual men typically fantasise about, so ingrained in our society’s psyche is this paradigm (patriarchy has been dominant for the last several thousand years)Continue reading “The Male Gaze in Life Drawing”
Category Archives: Artists
Stories of Women ~ with Claire
Monday 22 January 2018 is the date of our next Stories of Women event – with artist, writer and model Claire Collison. You can read more about the event and find a link to buy tickets here. Claire says, “If we are to translate the silence surrounding breast cancer into language and action against thisContinue reading “Stories of Women ~ with Claire”
‘A Human Orchestration’ with The Drawing Theatre, October 12th
An artist friend Lily, described the power evinced by the model when delivering words, poetry whilst posing. The total stillness (of the model) contrasting with the presence of the words expressing the essence of the model/performer with such intensity. The words, normally danced as enunciated, skipped into the space on stage; now squeezed through theContinue reading “‘A Human Orchestration’ with The Drawing Theatre, October 12th”
Guestblog: Sabine Zoellner reports on the Porn debate at Women of the World Festival, 10/3/’13
The panel consisted of: Julia Long – feminist activist and academic Martin Daubney – journalist and former editor of Loaded magazine Chitra Nagarajan – Black Feminists UK Helena Kennedy – chair and lawyer for human rights QC PORNOGRAPHY – Sunday, 10.03.2013 After the introduction of the 4 participants it became clear that the nature ofContinue reading “Guestblog: Sabine Zoellner reports on the Porn debate at Women of the World Festival, 10/3/’13”
Models Drawing Models
This is what happens in the workshop: people try modelling. Before that they try drawing. They get addicted to both. Sometimes. That’s what happened to one couple who keep coming back for more. And more. Last event they came to draw (see results below). I wanted them to pose as a couple for our nextContinue reading “Models Drawing Models”
Spirited Bodies 