It's true! Friendships have been made, singles have become couples, smiles have shone across faces :) Life Drawing Wales is a fun, safe and inclusive environment where sketching and chatting go hand in hand! Join Us!
Unique Life Drawing Classes For YOU!
Andy developed the group in 2010 after becoming tired of poor tutoring, cold rooms and very low pay. From the get-go Life Drawing Wales guaranteed to pay all working models the agreed minimum UK life model rate. Where possible, we committed to pay more. The only caveat attached to this was that models wouldn’t work elsewhere for less. This has served us well with only a few models undercutting the group and so being kicked out of the team. Life Drawing Wales, from its inception then, was a pressure group, driving up the wages and working conditions for sessional life models.
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From one session of an hour and a half a week Life Drawing Wales quickly grew from a hobby into a business. We have worked with every college in South Wales, and have had contracts with agencies and good relations with individual artists. If you like, Life Drawing Wales has become the one-stop shop for naked people in South Wales and the West of England.
You can message us at any time – AndyMuse@pm.me 🙂 or visit our Contact Page
AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR WORK…
is to be seen to be confident naked. We want all who draw us to be encouraged to feel better about their own body image, to feel confident themselves. We all live in skin and skin is beautiful. Effectively we see ourselves as a counterweight to the crap that mainstream media attempts to immerse us in. We attempt to repair the damage done by magazines, newspapers, TV and film. That’s a big ask but we keep on trying…
Andy’s other business is very different – out and about in the mountains and on the beaches both at home and abroad – Wales Outdoors – Join Him!
OUR MODELS HAVE BEEN NAKED HERE:
Little Man Coffee Company, ITV3, BBC Radio Cymru, BBC 3, The Guardian, Chapter Arts Centre, Come Dine With Me, Coleg Gwent Newport Campus. Neath Port Talbot College, Cardiff and the Vale College Barry Campus, The Bridge MPS, University of Glamorgan Foundation & Art Practice. Cathays Community Centre. The Project Space in Newport, Coleg Gwent AS/A Level and Diploma Courses, 10 Feet Tall Cocktail Bar, Buffalo Bar, The Atrium – University of South Wales Animation, Harry Holland – The amazing figure artist. Cardiff and The Vale College Cardiff Campus, Bridgend College, The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Coffee1 Swansea, Beaches on Tenerife, Beaches in Wales, Cyfarthfa Castle, Castell Coch… And…
Cardiff University Art Society, Student Association of the Welsh School of Architecture, The PostPort Office – Newport, Third Floor Gallery Photography and Performance. Merthyr Tydfil College, Coleg y Cymoedd, University of South Wales Caerleon Campus. Porthcawl Community Centre, Milgi Lounge, Nos Da Studio Hostel, Inkspot Arts and Crafts, The Arnolfini Theatre, Garth Olwg Lifelong Learning Centre, CreativiTea Cafe in Nelson. Beaches across the globe :), Y Pant Comprehensive School, Ogmore Tipi’s, Private Houses/Holiday Cottages from Bala to Newton Abbot. East Devon Art Academy, Third Floor Gallery, Charmouth Art Evenings. The Art Workshop in Rhiwbina, Carnegie House in Bridgend, The American Museum in Bath, Cynon Valley Museum – Get in touch to add your college or venue to this list…