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: Life Models
The Power of saying ‘No’
Spirited Bodies presents the next Stories of Women event, featuring co-founder Morimda, a professional life model of over 20 years experience. This will be held on Tuesday September 25th, 7pm – 9pm at The Feminist Library. From being an extremely shy person, it was through life modelling that Morimda emerged – found out whoContinue reading “The Power of saying ‘No’”
Stories of Women ~ the journey so far
The idea came as a way to develop the interview format where I would record models and artists speaking about their experiences relating to modelling and drawing, and play this while the models posed. With Stories of Women I chose to focus on one model each time, and give her the chance to lead andContinue reading “Stories of Women ~ the journey so far”
Stories of Women ~ part 2 with Jennifer
Ursula was helping me to prepare the space, and put up signage in the building where The Feminist Library is, so that women would be able to find us easily. Not many had booked so I was rather nervous that Jennifer would not have much of an audience drawing her. Jennifer herself and her partner,Continue reading “Stories of Women ~ part 2 with Jennifer”
Body Reflections
The power of life modelling to elevate us from our body image concerns is challenged by the pervasive tendency of mainstream beauty standards to permeate our life drawing bubble. Before social media, life models largely existed in isolation, rarely knowing one another, merely passing each other during a break perhaps at an art school. NowContinue reading “Body Reflections”
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