Friends and Academicians' Room Members life drawing: figure in tension
Evening session
Tuesday 15 October 2019 6.15 - 9.15pm
The Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts
£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.
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Terms and conditions
Enjoy an exclusive life drawing session for Friends and Academicians’ Room members in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, concentrating on the representation of muscle groups.
Participants will be challenged to find marks which express tension and dramatise surface form. Our professional life models will take up a series of short poses where the skin is stretched over flexed and well-defined muscles, creating a counterpoint to more relaxed areas of the body. Weight and rhythm in your mark-making will be the chief issue under investigation.
Whether you are a regular, would like to hone your skills or try life drawing for the first time, these 3-hour regular and immersive sessions – taught by expert teacher and practising artist Mick Kirkbride – are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.
This event is open to Friends of the RA, RA250 Friends and RA250 Supporters, and members of the Academicians’ Room only.
About the tutor
Mick Kirkbride
Painter and teacher Mick Kirkbride is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools. For many years he was Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts. In 2004 he was elected a member of The New English Art Club, becoming the curator of its education programme in 2014. Mick has taught drawing at all levels, most recently as drawing tutor on a range of post-graduate specialisms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). For the past two years he has led a series of life-drawing sessions for Friends of the RA based in the Keeper’s House.
Mick’s own paintings seek to make visible narratives that exist in the mind’s eye. His inventions are always underpinned by observational drawing, with the human figure as the key structural motif.
Our courses and classes programme
Our varied programme of short courses and classes provides an opportunity to explore subjects ranging from life drawing to the history of exhibitions and arts management, led by expert tutors and practising artists. These courses introduce traditional art-making processes, as well as perspectives on art history, theory and business.