Performative multi-model life drawing deluxe.

The Queer Georgian Social Season is back! And with it, for the second year running, returns our special brand of multi-model life drawing, an extravaganza placing the Queer nude front and centre, literally.

In partnership with Burgh House and vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Bougies Baroques, and featuring art muse-models Kyle White, Mauricia Lewis and Roman Ackley.

One quick, efficient way of denying a culture and rewriting its history is to destroy its art. Considering how much Queer-coded art was destroyed and hidden over the centuries by various religious and political forces, it is amazing so much of it still exists. Classical examples of the nude physical ideal, as displayed by prototypical figures such as the faun, nymph, satyr, warrior, god, and goddess – for which popularity reached fever pitch during the Georgian Era – provide us with a crucial key to Queer identities handed down through the ages by the ancients, in turn establishing the centrality of the original Classical nude, and its myriad reinterpretations, within the historical development of the Queer community.

In this creative fine-art experience, you get to immerse yourself in the making of art as a pure celebration of the nude form as both a site of Queer identities and of physical inclusivity.

So please, leave your preconceptions at the door, help yourself to a drink (included in the ticket price, no less) and let your creativity flow!

No drawing experience is needed, and all levels of ability are welcome and encouraged.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

£18 (£15 Burgh House Members & U25s)

Tickets via Eventbrite

Performative multi-model life drawing with an 18th-century bent.

In partnership with Burgh House, as part of its first annual Queer Georgian Social Season, and vocal and instrumental ensemble Les Bougies Baroques, join us for a life drawing experience in the Georgian style with art muses Olli McSorley, Will Osmond and Stephanie Osztreicher, offering an eclectic display of Classically-inspired repertoire to inspire and excite the drawing public.

In the Georgian era, Classical examples of the nude and often gender-bending, sexualised ideal of the physique, as prototypically displayed in figures such as the faun, nymph, satyr, warrior, god and goddess, reached fever pitch in their popularity, provide a crucial key to LGBTQIA+ identity handed down to by the ancients through the ages, in turn establishing the centrality of the original Classical nude (as well as the Classical nude as interpreted by humankind since the ancients) within the historical development of the LGBTQIA+ community.

At By George…, we claim this legacy outright, producing an experience - an immersive show even - where the creation of art and the celebration of the nude form as both a site of Queer identities and of physical inclusivity are placed front and centre.

So, leave your preconceptions at the door, help yourself to a drink and let the creativity flow! No drawing experience is needed.

Materials, boards and paper are provided, and you are welcome to bring your own.

Online booking essential, limited spaces available.

Tickets: £15 (£12 Burgh House Members & U25s)