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"Free entry! Grand opening of Fra Beecher’s residency exploring female embodiment, life modelling, wild swimming, and local waterways through an evolving multi-disciplinary practice. Find out how you can get involved through writing workshops, creative collaboration or just taking a dip in the Avon."
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A event on Thursday 7th August. The event starts at 18:00.
Join Fra Beecher for the opening night of her residency at The Launderette. The work on display will evolve throughout her two week residency. This evening will be a chance to talk about the work Fra is making, and to discuss ways to collaborate with her ahead of the closing events the following weekend.
Fra Beecher is an artist and life model, and co-founder of United Models Life Drawing CIC. Her creative practice is informed by her modelling work and the weekly life drawing sessions she facilitates in Bristol. Through her projects, including Body of Work (2018-2020), Fra challenges the misconception that female life models are passive objects.
As a longstanding wild swimmer, Fra has begun to explore the physical, emotional and psychological experience of swimming in the River Avon through photography, writing, drawing and sculpture.
This residency and exhibition is an opportunity to experiment, and reflect, making new work and collaborating with artists, writers and fellow swimmers. Through a series of creative workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to share their own personal connections to bodies of water, which will become part of the works on display.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Fra Beecher is an artist and life model, and co-founder of United Models Life Drawing CIC. Her creative practice is informed by her modelling work and the weekly life drawing sessions she facilitates in Bristol. Through her projects, including Body of Work (2018-2020), Fra challenges the misconception that female life models are passive objects.
As a longstanding wild swimmer, Fra has begun to explore the physical, emotional and psychological experience of swimming in the River Avon through photography, writing, drawing and sculpture.
This residency and exhibition is an opportunity to experiment, and reflect, making new work and collaborating with artists, writers and fellow swimmers. Through a series of creative workshops, attendees will have the opportunity to share their own personal connections to bodies of water, which will become part of the works on display.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
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