PhEminist life drawing
The phEminist life drawing exploration was part of an annual life class, supported by the Royal Academy of Arts outreach programme. The class was run by an artist in collaboration with a model and as an inner-city school, at the time we were eligible for a substantial discount. Because I had made use of this offer over the ten years prior to this life class, I knew the flow of the class very well and felt it would support the ambitions of this project in multiple ways. The class was open to all students studying fine art at GCSE and A’ Level and provided a good starting point for the YWAs (and the rest of the students) to experience life drawing, as the class provided a safe and nurturing environment.
It was a whole day (five hour) event that took place in one of the art rooms. With the furniture pushed to the sides and all students working on the floor, it provided a total shift in the usual set up of an art class, disrupting the usual classroom space.
Click on the links below to explore two elements of the drawing process, first the colonised line, the first drawings of the class, and then the more experimental forms of drawing that support a disruption of these ideas.
It was a whole day (five hour) event that took place in one of the art rooms. With the furniture pushed to the sides and all students working on the floor, it provided a total shift in the usual set up of an art class, disrupting the usual classroom space.
Click on the links below to explore two elements of the drawing process, first the colonised line, the first drawings of the class, and then the more experimental forms of drawing that support a disruption of these ideas.