February 21, 2011
Lost Lovers Ball: Life Drawing, The Dancer
With her insides carefully painted on her outsides by expert anatomical artist Carolyn Roper, dancer Lily Silverton patiently (and rather frigidly) posed for our life drawing class, inside the atmospherically cozy (though thermally freezing) dome at the Secret Garden Party’s Lost Lovers Ball inside Battersea Power Station.
Medical doctor Jack Milln elucidated the structure and function of her bones, veins and viscera, while artist Evy Jokhova led us through the techniques of capturing this remarkable human form on paper.
I think we can all agree: this girl has balls.
For more of Lily
www.nonewclothesforayear.com
And Evy
www.evyjokhova.co.uk/
Lost Lovers Ball: Life Drawing, The Mother
For our second round of life drawing classes inside Battersea Power Station with the Secret Garden Party on February 13, artist Elle Bundy skillfully covered our very patient and very pregnant model Zuzia Meyers.
We didn’t know what the fetus would look like when Elle started – though she has done lots of body painting, she has never painted on a pregnant woman. What a result – the baby was fantastically gothic, we’ll sure you will agree.
“I feel very tribal,” Zuzia commented.
Our most adored neuroscientist Zarinah Agnew joined us to explain the physiology of love and sex, and artist and architect Kat Davis led us through the architecture of love itself.
Read more in this most lovely write up in the New Scientist.
And see all the pics here.
By Zoe
February 19, 2011
Lost Lovers Ball: Helen Arney
Inside a cozy dome, underneath the soaring roof of the great turbine hall, geek pop songstress Helen Arney serenaded us with a sultry set of songs about sex, science, and why angler fish are on to something good.
Photo by Flavia Fraser-Cannon
February 14, 2011
New Scientist Culture Lab
Published today in the New Scientist’s Culture Lab.
“Indeed, the audience seemed to be having a right old time, the atmosphere far more boisterous than the same discussion would have been had it been staged in a university lecture hall rather than a life-drawing class at a festival.”
Indeed!
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