Louise Bourgeois themed life drawing
About this Event
A Louise Bourgeois-inspired life drawing session
Few artists explored motherhood with the emotional honesty and psychological complexity of Louise Bourgeois. Across sculpture, textiles and drawing, she returned repeatedly to themes of birth, memory, ambivalence, repair and inheritance.
Her textile work The Good Mother reflects on the impossible ideals placed upon mothers, using fabric, stitching and the domestic materials traditionally associated with women’s labour to explore love, loss, care and identity.
Inspired by Bourgeois’ practice, this special two-hour hybrid life drawing session invites you to draw beyond anatomy and into metaphor.
Working with floor length Frankie, a pregnant artist-model within a carefully composed installation of symbolic props, participants will explore the maternal body as a site of memory, transformation and contradiction.
The session is suitable for creatives of all abilities, this is an opportunity to engage with life drawing as Bourgeois did, not as an exercise in representation, but as a means of thinking, remembering and feeling.
2-hour hybrid session - in person at The Madre Project and online via zoom.
Please bring your own materials
Together we will draw the body, trace the thread, and question the myth of “the good mother.”
*please note before booking that unfortunately our building does not have step free access and this event is located on the second floor.
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