Performative multi-model life drawing deluxe.
The Queer Georgian Social Season is back! And with it, for the second year running, returns our special brand of multi-model life drawing, an extravaganza placing the Queer nude front and centre, literally.
In partnership with Burgh House and vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Bougies Baroques, and featuring art muse-models Kyle White, Mauricia Lewis and Roman Ackley.
One quick, efficient way of denying a culture and rewriting its history is to destroy its art. Considering how much Queer-coded art was destroyed and hidden over the centuries by various religious and political forces, it is amazing so much of it still exists. Classical examples of the nude physical ideal, as displayed by prototypical figures such as the faun, nymph, satyr, warrior, god, and goddess – for which popularity reached fever pitch during the Georgian Era – provide us with a crucial key to Queer identities handed down through the ages by the ancients, in turn establishing the centrality of the original Classical nude, and its myriad reinterpretations, within the historical development of the Queer community.
In this creative fine-art experience, you get to immerse yourself in the making of art as a pure celebration of the nude form as both a site of Queer identities and of physical inclusivity.
So please, leave your preconceptions at the door, help yourself to a drink (included in the ticket price, no less) and let your creativity flow!
No drawing experience is needed, and all levels of ability are welcome and encouraged.
Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.
Online booking essential, limited spaces available.
£18 (£15 Burgh House Members & U25s)
