Revaluing the Life Model in Art Practice is a @britaesthetics Symposium co-organised by @debaeneaurelie & Dominic Blake & CA York @Kent_Aesthetics on 7 May '22
Very happy to announce that Kent has won the bid to host the 8th @BritAesthetics PG conference! 🎉🎉
The theme of the conference will be "Aesthetics and the Body" (more details soon). Many congratulations to the organisers, @al_jato, C.A. York, and Hans Maes.
Excellent musings on models during the panel discussion with JJ Delvine, Jean Wainwright, @LondonDrawing and Graeme A Forbes. It was such a pleasure to host you and hear your insights. Image in the background is from London Drawing!
From an excellent opening talk mapping out modelling & authorship by @pakes_anna, to an inspiring Dominic Blake, and invigorating AW Eaton on fatness & life modelling. Thank you everyone who joined & helped create such a wonderful day of conversation & exchange! A success!🎉🧑🎨
Thank you for the great questions you asked at the symposium, @al_jato, and for these amazing drawings!!🔥 A wonderful trace and impression of the event!
Thank you @_caesthetics and @DebaeneAurelie for the AMAZING @LifeModelSymp this weekend. I was still recovering yesterday but it was such an illuminating event! Here are a couple of quick sketches, which I felt were an appropriate way of recording the conference.
Panellist Professor Jean Wainwright (@jeanbwainwright) is Director of the School of Fine Art & Photography Research Centre at UCA. The Musings on Models panel closes our programme.
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Credit: Jenny Saville, Fulcrum.
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Isabelle Mège wonderfully illustrates the intriguing complexities that come from life modelling. Read more about her archive here: https://t.co/WUtW5v4bgR
Credit: Joel-Peter Witkin, Nègre’s Fetishist.
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Panellist Anne Noble-Partridge is co-founder & Director of @LondonDrawing, incorporating painting, drawing, photography, & video into her practice.
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Credit: Henri Matisse, Carmelina.
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Panellist JJ Delvine's (@JJDelvine) work encompasses painting, curating, & sound art. His portraits have been selected for the BP Portrait Award.
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Credit: JJ (Jeremy) Delvine, The Oolographer (in his study).
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Together the Musings on Models panel discussion will consider collaboration between artists & life models across mediums and art practices.
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Credit: André Kertész, Distortion #91(cropped version).
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Dr Aurélie Debaene’s thesis ‘The Aesthetics of Posing’ inspired the Revaluing the Life Model Symposium. @DebaeneAurelie will host bringing insight from her work & research to the day’s events.
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Credit: Lucian Freud, Flora with Blue Toenails.
A steal to come join our discussion about life models & contemporary art practice 🚂
The highspeed service from St Pancras gets you right into Canterbury West, a 20 minute walk away from campus, surrounded by green!
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Our symposium line-up will focus on the contribution the life model brings to the creative process. Check out our programme and website to learn more!
Credit: Brassaï, Matisse and Model.
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Dr Anna Pakes’s keynote speech
‘Models, performers, (co-) authors? Authorship and collaboration in the making of images’ will open the symposium.
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Credit: Rosalie Watkins, Motion Study.
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Keynote Professor Eaton will discuss fat life modelling from a fat justice, feminist, and anti-racist perspective in their talk ‘Naked, Fat, and Fabulous’.
Credit: Laura Aguilar, Nature Self Portrait #14.
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