As you may have been following, I was crowned Brighton Girl of the Year in 2024 with Brighton Girl Network. I was nominated again for Brighton Girl in 2025 with an additional nomination in the Event of the Year category with Black Brighton Market. Unfortunately I didn’t win last year but was proud to haveContinue reading “Brighton Girl of the Year nomination (3 years in a row)”
Author Archives: Jade Hylton
Drawversity Safeguarding, Cultural Awareness & Professional Practice for Tutors
Purpose of this document This document outlines Drawversity’s expectations for tutors, facilitators, and session leaders when working with life models of colour. It exists to ensure sessions are ethical, culturally aware, and professionally run, and that models are supported, respected, and safeguarded within the space. Life drawing environments are often predominately white and middle-class. WhileContinue reading “Drawversity Safeguarding, Cultural Awareness & Professional Practice for Tutors”
Drawversity Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries for Life Models
Purpose of this document This document exists to support Drawversity life models in navigating the professional, cultural, and ethical realities of working within life drawing spaces. These spaces are often predominately white and middle-class, and while they are frequently well-intentioned, they can at times produce moments of exoticism, othering, or unconscious bias.My aim is notContinue reading “Drawversity Safeguarding & Professional Boundaries for Life Models”
Callaloo // Publication
“Callaloo has emerged as the most essential and continuously published journal in matters pertinent to African American and African Diaspora Studies worldwide. Dr. Charles H. Rowell founded Callaloo in 1976 at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. With its emphasis on critical studies of the arts and humanities, as well as creative writing, Callaloo hasContinue reading “Callaloo // Publication”
My time at Draw Brighton
Bold title right… straight to the beginning then I guess? It’s April 2019 and I had been back from living in China for about three months. I had gone out there to build my portfolio in the hopes to come back and hit the ground running in being a fully fledged self-employed artist. Obviously itContinue reading “My time at Draw Brighton”
The Drawing Circus
I finally made it into The Drawing Circus! As a big finale for the studio/building closing, Jake Spicer, founder of Draw Brighton, decided he was going to open up the costume trunks and bring the circus to New England House. The day was split into three parts as well as three floors. Rehearsals at 10amContinue reading “The Drawing Circus”
Drawversity, Pride 2025 // The Last Session at Draw Brighton.
Yep, you read it correctly, we had our last session at the Draw Brighton studio on Saturday 2nd August 2025. Our first home, the setting of Drawversity’s origin story. You’ve probably heard the story hundreds of times, with a well written copied and pasted synopsis paragraph. But I’m going to tell you again, fresh fromContinue reading “Drawversity, Pride 2025 // The Last Session at Draw Brighton.”
Life Model // Tour 2025
Life Modelling in Barcelona Barcelona was the first leg of my tour, preceding Paris and London. I decided to go to each place for one week, a month apart, so Barcelona in May, Paris in June and London in July. When I initially decided to go, I started by doing a huge bout of research.Continue reading “Life Model // Tour 2025”
ESEA Models & Muses
This year Drawversity will be sharing with you the inspiring, and rather audacious, Chinese and Japanese models and muses in recognition of ESEA Heritage month.
Getting Nude in Nature
“This is a project about age, the social construction of age. I think it’s a harmful construction – unlike this project. It messes with how we think about ourselves and about other people. This project, on the other hand, is all about us as amazing humans. Ages invites people to reveal their bodies and revelContinue reading “Getting Nude in Nature”
Jade Hylton 