😜 Your May life drawing line-up is here — plus: New Venue & Day.
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New Venue & Day

We have moved to the cinema! Starting in April, our life drawing sessions take place at 7-9pm every Tuesday at Hackney Picturehouse (attic). Same time, same vibe — in a new home with new pricing. Come and say hello!

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Juxtapose Life Drawing

Join Juxtapose.art for a special pop-up life drawing session upstairs at Palm2 in Lower Clapton (E5), starting 1 June, from 7-9pm. We're excited to bring an evening of drawing, creativity, and conversation to the heart of Lower Clapton in E5, and we're looking forward to seeing you there.

More details to follow soon.
Follow us on Instagram for updates and upcoming announcements @juxtapose.art

Email Charlotte
 
May's models

Here is this month’s line-up. Remember, sometimes models need to cancel, so always check the website for an up-to-date schedule. We do not send emails for model changes.

Adrian

Adrian

Tue, 5 May, 7-9pm

@modbodadrian
Paula

Paula

Tue, 12 May, 7-9pm

@lifemodelpau
Megan

Megan

Tue, 19 May, 7-9pm

@megirama_art
Guadi

Guadi

Tue, 26 May, 7-9pm

@guadi.mon
 
Tickets & pricing

Invite friends to draw with you and take advantage of the accumulated discount.

General admission £12.50
Drop-In (on the door) £15.00
Five session pass (£10 x 5) £50.00
 
Art Announcements

Exhibitions, events, and stories from the world of life drawing and beyond. These are also shared on the artist section of the website, only the newest ones are featured in the newsletter. If you have something you want to share, let us know!

The Coming of Age

The Coming of Age

A fascinating look at how life drawing shaped the foundations of Western art from the Renaissance to today. It explores experiences and perceptions of ageing, from adolescence to later life, and asks how societies can adapt for us all to age better.

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Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire

Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire

Working at the intersection of art and fashion photography, Nhu Xuan Hua reflects on the fragility of how stories are communicated - or withheld - across generations.

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Lindsey Bull Quiet Magic

Lindsey Bull Quiet Magic

The exhibition’s title, Quiet Magic, encapsulates the overall tenor of these paintings. Bull’s works resist grand spectacle in favour of something subtler: figures leaving traces of themselves through gesture, posture and atmosphere.

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Art(icles) by art(ists)

Recently we approached a few the people in our life drawing community, and asked them to write about something that matters to them. The depth of subjects and creative voices inpired me to capture and share them on a blog, and promote them as teaser in the newsletter.

Hand made paper
by Bruce Thomas - 1633 words (8 min read)
Are you couragous enough to destroy your work? I wasn't, but that was the prerequiste of learning the process of papermaking. A sustainable way to spring clean your artworks into a new and personal blank page, embeded with ghosts of old drawings.

If you draw often (like me) you will be confronted by the amount of used paper you have at home. Now I do reuse it, just by flipping it over, or folding large sheets into smaller booklets. But when all sides are used, and none are particularly good, what do you do with it? Each page is actually a store of your time. Right? Some pages only contain a gestural pose of maybe one of two minutes. Other pages may have twenty minutes of your life etched on them. So a single drawing session is approximately two hours manifest as fifteen pages. I draw at least once a week, so in a single year the pile stands 780 pages high ... (continue reading)

 

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