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Francis Wardale’s Artwork from Mortlake
I enjoy life drawing but this gives me the chance to draw people in more complex compositions than you get in a life class. I enjoy the challenge of trying to record the groupings of models with only a...
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Meeting the Team in Water Colour
This Thursday 6th September is a chance to meet the Spirited Bodies team if you would like to model at one of our events. We will be at The Leather Bottle, 538 Garratt Lane, SW17 0NY from 7 – 9pm. …...
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John turned up to a meeting, and made us look good!
Seriously, we couldn’t have paid him to big us up more! And he wrote this about us on Streetlife: “I participated in Spirited Bodies’ last event at Battersea Arts Centre; it was one of the best, and...
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Channelling my Inner German
The day my tyre exploded is the day I turned up to visit Mum My magical Mum called me by telepathy Caught her at her best hour, wide awake and lucid, before meds slow her down She who has not …...
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To Feel Human with You
Being with people naked with all different bodies, still and silent is liberating. Our bodies are ok, there is beauty in each, from the essence being allowed to be. Open and free allows, encourages...
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Queendom of the Goddess
Last year a life model came to see my performance, ‘Girl in Suitcase’, and on reading related blog posts told me she wanted to discuss some aspects of my past which interested her. Specifically...
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In the Family – Spirited Bodies 10 at The Mall Feb ’13, some photos by Gil
Our recent event returned us to Spirited Bodies’ beginnings in 2010 in terms of the venue. My personal beginning in terms of my parents were also present; they were modelling for portrait. At The Mall...
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Naomi Wolf & Women of the World festival, Southbank
Wolf got in trouble for revealing too much of herself in her latest book entitled ‘Vagina’. Controversy, talking about her own vagina. She says that word a lot, as well as describing its different...
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Endangered Bodies & Spirited Bodies
On Sunday 10th March at Women of the World Festival, Southbank I attended the ‘Endangered Bodies’ workshop. Endangered Bodies are an international initiative who ‘challenge the merchants of body hatred...
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(In defense of) Promoting Life Modelling
We come under criticism by some life models who resent that what we do opens up life modelling to many who would otherwise not get into it. We contribute to an ever increasing pool of life models, and...
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Coming back down to Transition Heathrow
My favourite grooove lingers and rolls, batting away the overgrowth in a cave, Dead Can Dance soaring through a number. It’s the call of the wild on a Tuesday evening, and then you know it’s coming....
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Spirited Sound, Love and Life
I want to begin a while back, because this road has been a long journey. This year has been more challenging, but also finally a turning point – in my art, with Spirited Bodies, and in my love life. It...
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The Trials and Tableaux of Tanner Street
I wanted to cancel a week before; there just wasn’t enough interest. From models or artists. It was a very painful feeling, tinged with failure, just when I had felt like things were getting back on...
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Naomi Wolf & Women of the World festival, Southbank
Wolf got in trouble for revealing too much of herself in her latest book entitled ‘Vagina’. Controversy, talking about her own vagina. She says that word a lot, as well as describing its different...
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