Friday night life drawing: Carnival!
Friday 28 February 2025 6.30 - 8pm
Benjamin West Lecture Theatre | Burlington Gardens
£15 / £9 conc
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Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism
Celebrate Brazilian Carnival at our Friday night life drawing class.
Inspired by our exhibition Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, this workshop is an opportunity to delight in the wonderful world of samba whilst developing your life drawing skills.
Artist Vanessa Da Silva will lead you in a series of life drawing exercises during which you will explore movement, energy and the human form. Working with samba performers you will discover the thrill of life drawing whilst enjoying the reverberating rhythms of Brazilian Carnival.
Whether you’re a seasoned artist, or you’ve never picked up a pencil before, this workshop is an opportunity to practise figure drawing in our beautiful Benjamin West Lecture Theatre.
Vanessa Da Silva is an award-winning Brazilian artist living and working in London. Vanessa holds an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BFA in Product Design from FAAP, São Paulo. In 2023 Vanessa was selected for the 12th edition of Sculpture in the City, London. In 2020 she was the recipient of both The Hopper Prize Award and the Gilbert Bayes Award, given by the Royal Society of Sculptors. Da Silva has exhibited in the UK and internationally including at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Pivô, São Paulo, and Frieze Sculpture, London.
If you have any access requirements that you’d like to discuss, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk.
If the event is sold out, please contact public.programmes@royalacademy.org.uk to be added to the waiting list.
£15 / £9 conc
Friends of the RA book first