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”
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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”
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”
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”
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”
Drawversity // Making changes
I was setting up for my class in the Hove studio, it was June 2024 and I was catching up with the lovely Steve and Mel who come to my class every month at Fine Feather Wellness. Steve started telling me about an exhibition he had been to recently, Bella Hoare’s A Different Green exhibitionContinue reading “Drawversity // Making changes”
LOOSENING UP. With Sara Reeve (& Me).
Semi-finalist Sara Reeve invites us into her creative world with a fresh and looser approach to portrait painting. In this demonstration, she embraces the challenge of using only a decorator’s brush for the entire process, showcasing her unique style, with my face! You can catch up on the episodes theories and practices on Sky ArtsContinue reading “LOOSENING UP. With Sara Reeve (& Me).”
Drawversity // Celebrating the Black Dancers who have shaped and changed the course of Contemporary Dance.
Drawversity what? Drawversity where? They say necessity is the mother of invention. Drawversity was created from my own experience working as a life model – living in such a creative city where Life art is so popular – I had found there really weren’t enough BIPOC Life models in the industry, in a city whereContinue reading “Drawversity // Celebrating the Black Dancers who have shaped and changed the course of Contemporary Dance.”
A COVER LETTER OF REFLECTION
I recently applied for a new position as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion board member at The Charleston House. I had to write why I felt I would fit the position and writing the cover letter gave me the opportunity to really reflect on all my work and successes over the last 5/6 years. ItContinue reading “A COVER LETTER OF REFLECTION”
Jade Hylton 