Short course

Friends and Academicians’ Room members life drawing: movement

Evening session

Monday 8 May 2017 6.15 - 9.15pm

The Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly

£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.

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An exclusive opportunity to enjoy monthly life-drawing sessions for Friends and Academicians' Room members in the Sir Hugh Casson Room, designed to be both rewarding and fun. These practical sessions provide expert-led tuition in a social and welcoming environment. This month's session concentrates on movement.

The aim of this class is to focus on dynamic and animated poses to express notions of movement within the figure.These poses will vary in length and intensity, using a range of supporting props including a rope to counterbalance thrust and energy. The contraction and elongation of muscle groups can offer an exciting and challenging image-making opportunity, bringing drawings to life with a heightened sense of movement.

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£50. Includes a drinks reception and all practical materials. Friends and Academicians’ Room members only.

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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, more recently as drawing tutor on a range of post-graduate specialisms at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Over the past two years he has tutored a series of life-drawing sessions for Friends of the RA based in the Keeper's House. Mick's paintings are essentially suppositions, they seek to make visible narratives that exist in the mind's eye. The idiosyncrasy of invention underpinned with observational drawing is the primary tool, with the human figure as the dominant structural motif.