Drawing the In(Visible)

We return to Burgh House Museum this autumn with another exuberant evening of multi-model life drawing for all levels of drawing ability. It will also be the final figure-drawing event in the series for the museum’s Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Dorothy Bohm exhibitions.

In September, we welcome Michael Hill and Daven Lee to the life room - Michael modelling for one of the first times in his life, Daven re-approaching the discipline after many years away, both offering a fresh take on the subject of the figure that is bound to excite and inspire.

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House public space, with a drink included in the ticket price.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Limited spaces, booking essential.

Members & U25s: £16.96 + 1.96 booking fee | Non-members: £20.21 + £2.21 booking fee

Tickets via Burgh House Museum

Ever considered trying life modelling yourself? For information about gaining experience, ticking off that bucket list item or properly getting started in the industry, get in touch or visit the Starkers Academy.

Capturing the In(Visible)

We return to Burgh House Museum this summer with another exuberant evening of multi-model life drawing for all levels of drawing ability.

As part of the museum’s programming around their Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Dorothy Bohm exhibitions, we welcome Patricia Oon and Jane Roberts to the life room, celebrating the power of their physical selves, inspiring with the stories of their bodies and promoting the visibility of women who are often absent or overlooked in the art world. 

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House public space, with a drink included in the ticket price.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Limited spaces, booking essential.

Members & U25s: £18 booking fee | Non-members: £15 booking fee

Tickets via Burgh House Museum

Ever considered trying life modelling yourself? For information about gaining experience, ticking off that bucket list item or properly getting started in the industry, get in touch or visit the Starkers Academy.

A beautiful marriage of art appreciation and art practice for all levels of ability.

May. The month when many cultures celebrate Mother’s Day and the world observes International Victorious Woman Month and Women’s Health Month.

It also marks our return to Burgh House Museum with an inter-generational multi-model life drawing experience promoting the visibility of women often overlooked, and too often absent, in the art world.

As part of the museum’s exhibitions of works by painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and photographer Dorothy Bohm exhibitions exploring the (in)visibility of women, we welcome Poppy McMurtrie and Jane Roberts to the life room, celebrating the power underpinning their physical selves and inspiring drawers of all abilities with the stories of their bodies.

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House public space, with a drink included in the ticket price.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

All levels of drawing ability are welcome and encouraged.

Spaces are limited. Booking is essential.

Members: £15 + 1.96 booking fee | Non-members: £18 + £2.21 booking fee

Tickets via Eventbrite

Ever considered trying life modelling yourself? For information about gaining experience, ticking off that bucket list item or properly getting started in the industry, get in touch or visit the Starkers Academy.

Fancy a resolution?

How about stretching your creative muscle with life drawing?

We return to Burgh House Museum in the new year with an exuberant evening of multi-model life drawing for all levels of drawing ability. And in 2024, even the art nudes have resolutions - to model for the very first time!

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In February, we welcome Terry Mason and Jonathan Dockney to the life room, making their creative debuts as life models for the drawing public. Terry and Jonathan are the latest inductees of the Starkers Academy, an inclusive body-positive learning initiative for new and developing art nudes.  

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House public space, with a drink included in the ticket price.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Limited spaces, booking essential.

Members: £11 + 1.62 booking fee | Non-members: £14 + £1.87 booking fee

Tickets via Burgh House Museum - SOLD OUT

Ever considered trying life modelling yourself? For information about gaining experience, ticking off that bucket list item or properly getting started in the industry, get in touch or visit the Starkers Academy.

Sublime multi-model life drawing in the heart of Hampstead.

We return to Burgh House Museum in November with another life drawing experience celebrating the body-positive, featuring art nudes Esther and Alex.

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Realise the innate beauty and power of two distinct human forms, gaining inspiration to release your inner creative courtesy of confident, inspired poses.

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House public space, and all levels of drawing ability are welcome and encouraged.

So, leave your reservations at the door, help yourself to a drink (included in the ticket price) and let the creativity flow!

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Limited spaces available.

Tickets: £15.70 (£12.62 Burgh House Members & U25s)

SOLD OUT ONLINE

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Alex Sarson made his life modelling debut in September 2023 with Bare Life Drawing, a champion of new and developing artists’ models. 

And in 2024, we look to revive the Starkers Academy, a multi-partnership initiative where new life models are born and nurtured.

Ever considered trying life modelling yourself? For information about gaining experience, ticking off that bucket list item or properly getting started in the industry, get in touch.

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)

Tickets via Eventbrite

Sublime multi-model life drawing in the heart of Hampstead.

We return to Burgh House Museum in July with another life drawing experience celebrating the body-positive, featuring art nudes Leo and Cyril.

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Realise the innate beauty and power of two distinct human forms, gaining inspiration to release the inner creative intrinsic to us all courtesy of elegant, confident and powerful poses.

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House gallery and public spaces, and all levels of drawing ability are welcome and encouraged.

So, leave your reservations at the door, help yourself to a drink (included in the ticket price) and let the creativity flow!

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

Tickets: £13.70 (£9.38 Burgh House Members & U25s)

SOLD OUT

A multi-model life drawing extravanganza.

Inspired by David Rodriguez Tóvar’s debut exhibition Roaring on the Other Side of Silence, this is a body-positive life drawing experience celebrating the male nude, featuring two art models who are both subjects of Tóvar’s work: Musa Hayat and Kage Douglas.

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“Seen from the artist’s distinctly queer gaze, this collection of oil paintings celebrates the beauty in the ordinary life of a community, from gently observed portraits to more evocative moments and compositions.”

In line with the spirit of the series, this life drawing evening will enable participants to realise the beauty, sensitivity and formidable qualities of the male form.

Drawing will take place in the Burgh House gallery and public spaces, and all levels of drawing ability are welcome and encouraged.

So, leave your reservations at the door, help yourself to a drink (included in the ticket price) and let the creativity flow!

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

Tickets: £13.70 (£9.38 Burgh House Members & U25s)

Performative multi-model life drawing with an 18th-century bent.

In partnership with Burgh House, as part of its first annual Queer Georgian Social Season, and vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Bougies Baroques, join us for a life drawing experience in the Georgian style with art muses Olli McSorley, Will Osmond and Stephanie Osztreicher, offering an eclectic display of Classically-inspired repertoire to inspire and excite the drawing public.

In the Georgian era, Classical examples of the nude and often gender-bending, sexualised ideal of the physique, as prototypically displayed in figures such as the faun, nymph, satyr, warrior, god and goddess, reached fever pitch in their popularity, provide a crucial key to LGBTQIA+ identity handed down to by the ancients through the ages, in turn establishing the centrality of the original Classical nude (as well as the Classical nude as interpreted by humankind since the ancients) within the historical development of the LGBTQIA+ community.

At By George…, we claim this legacy outright, producing an experience - an immersive show even - where the creation of art and the celebration of the nude form as both a site of Queer identities and of physical inclusivity are placed front and centre.

So, leave your preconceptions at the door, help yourself to a drink and let the creativity flow! No drawing experience is needed.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

Tickets: £15 (£12 Burgh House Members & U25s)