Drawing the Black body, drawing on Queer experience.

We’re excited to be working with iconic artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to offer life drawing in his South London creative haven. To highlight his critical work around Black LGBTQIA+ experiences, we’ll be welcoming life models who accentuate and celebrate the thrust of that work and their own inimitable Queerness, regardless of sexuality.

We should also mention that most of the models will be posing for the very first time, taking that first step in realising the creative and discursive power of their bodies.

However, in May, we welcome Mauricia Lewis - writer, actress, life model, creative - to the life room, a tour de force on the art modelling circuit who's known for her exuberance and dynamism.

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This is an inclusive, accessible drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included, but feel free to bring your own. Dry materials only can be used in the studio.

Hosted by Roy Joseph Butler, with guidance on where to begin and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, so please book online, and reach out if this is not possible.

£15 per person + £1.96 sales fee | Personal assistants free. DM for details.

Tickets via Eventbrite

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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.

Drawing the Black body, drawing on Queer experience.

We’re excited to be working with iconic artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to offer life drawing in his South London creative haven. To highlight his critical work around Black LGBTQIA+ experiences, we’ll be welcoming life models who accentuate and celebrate the thrust of that work and their own inimitable Queerness, regardless of sexuality.

We should also mention that most of the models will be posing for the very first time, taking that first step in realising the creative and discursive power of their bodies.

In April, we say hi to Matty, a multi-genre photographer who has decided to grow his creative practice through life modelling - "It's always been something I wanted to experience, and being fond of the natural form and my own form, I'm not opposed to sharing with others, especially for creative purposes."

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This is an inclusive, accessible drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included, but feel free to bring your own. Dry materials only can be used in the studio.

Hosted by Roy Joseph Butler, with guidance on where to begin and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, so please book online, and reach out if this is not possible.

£15 per person + £1.96 sales fee | Personal assistants free. DM for details.

Tickets via Eventbrite

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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.

Drawing the Black body, drawing on LGBTQIA+ experience.

We’re excited to be working with iconic artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to bring life drawing to his South London creative haven. To highlight his critical work around Black LGBTQIA+ experiences, we’ll be welcoming life models who accentuate and celebrate the thrust of that work and their own inimitable Queerness.

And, while most of the models we'll be working with are just starting their journeys as art nudes, a number will know the life room well.

In February, we welcome one such diva: DMAC - artist, graphic artist and performer who loves sharing energy with fellow artists.

This is an inclusive, accessible drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included, but feel free to bring your own. Dry materials only can be used in the studio.

Hosted by Roy Joseph Butler, with guidance on where to begin and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, so please book online, and reach out if this is not possible.

£15 per person + £1.96 sales fee | Personal assistants free. DM for details.

Tickets via Eventbrite

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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.

Everybody can draw. It’s true!

And we put it to the test at this life drawing workshop for all levels of ability. From short sketches to longer drawings, participants will be guided through an experience that will build your skills and confidence in figure drawing, regardless of the last time you drew.

Artists' model Roy Joseph Butler - Would I Lie to You?, Life Drawing Live and Drawer's Off - will be offering up a variety of poses that will no doubt challenge, but will also engage even the novice sketcher in exploring their creative side. And, he'll be semi-nude, providing form as well as discretion for the adventurous and the coy alike.

Figurative artist Joe Barrow will be your guide, providing tuition to develop skills, enhance practice and encourage personal creativity.

Materials are included, but feel free to bring your own.

In partnership with Barnet Library Service and the London Borough of Barnet.

FREE. Online booking essential.

Tickets via Barnet Libraries

Drawing the Black body, drawing on LGBTQIA+ experience.

We’re excited to be working with iconic artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to bring life drawing to his South London creative haven. To highlight his critical work around Black LGBTQIA+ experiences, we’ll be welcoming life models who accentuate and celebrate the thrust of that work and their own inimitable Queerness.

We should also mention that most of the models will be will be taking their first 'steps' as art nudes, realising the creative and discursive power of their bodies.

In February, we welcome Picarlo to to the life room - “As an artist, I never dreamt or imagined myself being a life model, but as my creative practice evolves and develops, I’m ecstatic to embark on this new path.“

This is an inclusive, accessible drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included, but feel free to bring your own. Dry materials only can be used in the studio.

Hosted by Roy Joseph Butler, with guidance on where to begin and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, so please book online, and reach out if this is not possible.

£15 per person + £1.96 sales fee | Personal assistants free. DM for details.

Tickets via Eventbrite

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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.

Drawing the Black body, drawing on LGBTQIA+ experience.

We’re excited to be working with iconic artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to bring life drawing to his South London creative haven. To highlight his critical work around Black LGBTQIA+ experiences, we’ll be welcoming life models who accentuate and celebrate the thrust of that work and their own inimitable Queerness.

We should also mention that most of the models will be posing for the very first time, taking that first step in realising the creative and discursive power of their bodies.

In January, we say hi to Deon Vashney - “To be life modelling for the first time feels like a dream come true. Never in my 26 years would I have imagined I’d have this opportunity. I owe a huge thank you to Ajamu for putting me forward as a candidate, and to Roy for taking the time to meet with me and offering such invaluable advice and pointers on how to excel as a life model. This is an opportunity I am deeply grateful for. It has taught me never to doubt myself when someone believes in my potential. A few years ago, modelling was just a dream floating around in my mind. Now, it’s becoming a reality, and I couldn’t be happier.“

This is an inclusive, accessible drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included, but feel free to bring your own. Dry materials only can be used in the studio.

Hosted by Roy Joseph Butler, with guidance on where to begin and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, so please book online, and reach out if this is not possible.

£15 per person + £1.96 sales fee | Personal assistants free. DM for details.

Tickets via Eventbrite (SOLD OUT)

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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.

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.

Join the Southwark and Lambeth MS group in celebrating the power and strength of bodies that live with chronic illness.

Creative expression is within us all - able-bodied and otherwise. To celebrate this potential, we’ve partnered with our local Multiple Sclerosis society to offer an afternoon of inclusive, accessible life drawing for all levels of ability.

Our model will be Jane Roberts, a graduate of the Starkers Academy for new and developing life models. Jane also lives with a chronic physical condition that once limited how she viewed her body and its potential. She now uses that same body as a source of artistic inspiration for creatives across London.

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“As a woman with a disability, I am always pushing myself that bit harder. Life modelling is such a peaceful and in-the-moment discipline. It provides me with the chance to really appreciate my body, along with its limitations. What I have pleasantly discovered is that my body remains motionless without any tremors.” - Jane Roberts

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Materials provided, but if you prefer bringing your own, dry mediums only, please!

Paper also provided, as well as guidance for all new drawers on where to make your first marks and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, online booking essential. A massive thanks to West Norwood Library for the space to host this community workshop.

Tickets via Eventbrite

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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.

Packed Lunch Goes East of Eden

The creative spirit is within us all. To recognise and celebrate this potential, this reality, we’ve partnered with fitness studio East of Eden to offer life drawing for all levels of ability.

In keeping with the East of Eden exhibition for the E17 Art Trail, Finding peace in the human experience by Heather Milner, this is an experience where model and drawers alike can find their own fresh, unique ways to flex their creative muscles, finding that secret dialogue and synthesis between them that encapsulates something of themselves.

We’ll also be welcoming a new art nude to the life room, Ravi, a transman and creative soul whose personal experience of finding peace in the human experience (and body) will no doubt inspire.

Materials provided, but if you prefer bringing your own, dry mediums only, please!

Paper also provided, as well as guidance for all new drawers on where to make your first marks and how to continue.

Spaces are limited, online booking essential.

Tickets via East of Eden

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Ravi is part of the Starkers Academy, an initiative for new and developing life models. 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.

A new year, a new thing.

And, in 2024, our newest thing is the partnership with artist-photographer, curator, archivist and activist Ajamu X to bring life drawing to his South London creative haven.

In March, we welcome dancer, singer, actor, yogi, fitness instructor, art nude and all-around diva Kage Douglas to the life room at Ajamu’s studio, offering up his unique brand of gesture, grace and athleticism for the drawing public. Expect dynamism. Expect poise, confidence. Expect poses that will both challenge and invite interpretation and freedom.

But, not to worry. This is a drawing experience for all levels of ability, because, frankly, everyone can draw. Believe it!

Boards, paper and materials are also very much included.

However, spaces are extremely limited, so book asap!

£15 per person (complimentary ticket for assistant)

Tickets via OutSavvy

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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.

A celebration of Lisetta Carmi, featuring artists’ model Olli McSorley.

Join us for a very special evening of life drawing inspired by the ground-breaking work of photographer Lisetta Carmi - in partnership with the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art and part of its public programming for the exhibition Lisetta Carmi: Identities (20th Sep - 17th Dec 2023).

Prepare to be immersed in texture, shape, and composition, celebrating the nude form as both a site of Queer identities and physical inclusivity! And working directly from a life model, you’ll also explore materials, techniques and dialogues inspired by Lisetta Carmi's works.

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 . (Dry materials only, please!)

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

If you have any accessibility needs, please contact education@estorickcollection.com.

£25 (£20 Estorick Collection Members & 18+ Students w/ID)

Tickets via the Estorick Collection

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.

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Celebrate Black History Month 2023 at Queer Britain with fine-art-creative-indulgence realness.

Dig deeper, look closer, think bigger...

...and allow your inner-creative OUT with a life drawing experience for all abilities, featuring sex-positive, body-positive, Caribbean Queen art nude DMAC (he/him). Expect poses both exquisite and dynamic from a consummate, inspired performer.

But first, warm up with a spot of gallery drawing in the UK's incomparable museum of British LGBTQIA history and culture. Explore and re-interpret the works of global-majority Queer artists with your own drawn creations. And not to worry, technical support will be available, so no drawing experience required in this all-inclusive experience.

Boards, paper and materials are provided, and you're welcome to bring your own drawing supplies

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

If you have any accessibility needs, please email Katie at Hello@QueerBritain.org.uk.

About tickets -

Queer Britain is committed to making its events accessible to everyone, regardless of financial circumstances. As a result, they offer four types of tickets:

£5: General admission

£10: An option to pay a little forward for those who can't.

Set Your Own Price: This option allows you to set the price of your ticket, so if you would like to pay a little less or a little more then you can do so.

Free: If you need a free ticket for any reason, no need to contact us, just select this option when registering.

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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)

Celebrate Pride in London 2023 with a body-powerful life drawing experience for all levels of ability.

Pose! Reclaiming the Nude, the latest exhibition from artist-animator Leo Crane, challenges traditional notions of ‘the muse’, presenting the model as artist and co-creator and, through fine art, animation and performance, presenting the Queer nude as a means of self-expression, validation and power. Art model Roy Joseph Butler enters the life room as inspiration for you to reclaim the nude, offering dynamic inspiration that explores the artistic dialogue between his poses and your creations, and empowering both.

Held in partnership with The Batsford Gallery and building on the themes in presented in Contemporary Figures in Watercolour: Speed, Gesture and Story (Crane & Butler, Batsford, 2021).

Online booking essential. Limited spaces available.

Boards, paper and materials provided.

£15 (+£1.35 booking fee)

Tickets via Outsavvy

Images: Peetapix

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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)