Collaborative Sound, Draw & Pose

  A fusion of art forms, experimental creativity, and a healing space. Meditation circle to begin; focus and calm. Slowly moving as a group, in a circle Like flowers growing towards the sun. A pregnant woman and a midwife pose together. A large paper everyone draws on Outlines of women on top of each other,Continue reading “Collaborative Sound, Draw & Pose”

Women of the World and Beyond

Our event at ‘Women of the World’ last Sunday has moved me profoundly. Having recordings of interviews with models was very powerful, as some of those women would have been too nervous to say those things live or even turn up. I am copying a message I received from one of the models, Niomi, asContinue reading “Women of the World and Beyond”

Model Interviews at WOW part 2; LaDawn, Sabine & Tansy

In this second instalment Lucy speaks to LaDawn and Sabine, who have both modelled with us a few times and taken up some professional life modelling, as well as to Tansy who first life modelled with us at our first event when she was 17 (with parental consent). She is now 20 and a LondonContinue reading “Model Interviews at WOW part 2; LaDawn, Sabine & Tansy”

Model Interviews at WOW; part 1 ~ Arleen & Emma-Jane

At Southbank’s Women of the World Festival 2013 we had a Women Only event which was also a presentation. Some women who have modelled with us during the last two and a half years took part to model as well as talk about their experiences. In this first section we talk to Arleen, an 82Continue reading “Model Interviews at WOW; part 1 ~ Arleen & Emma-Jane”

Guestblog: Plaster Casting – the inside story

Sometimes you find yourself leaping impulsively into a project – and this was one of those times.  I had answered an advertisement, asking for models who were prepared to be plaster cast for an artwork by “an international artist”.  Not only have I never been plaster cast, a month or so ago, I hadn’t everContinue reading “Guestblog: Plaster Casting – the inside story”