Register of Artists' Models News

RAM model Rachel McCarthy talks about life modelling (on page 16) http://www.artstylemagazine.co.uk/

I hope you all enjoy this as much as me! http://33.media.tumblr.com/767d31b88acbf570bb91de75488bd395/tumblr_ntcnbllgvY1s9ab4to1_540.gif

Film maker and ex RAM model Jessie Parsons has made this delightful video. Featuring RAM models Carla Tofano and Roy Butler. Well done all!! Have a look!  https://vimeo.com/135242687

RAM  model  Rob Hudson was on 8 out of 10 cats in June!  See the link.  About 31 minutes in.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=LLraWHJV5ARoMVYVc3VAmQdA&v=1eKTFfInDwI&app=desktop Well done, Rob!!

SWINDON   Monthly, Sunday untutored Life Drawing workshops. Timing 10.00 - 16.00. Booking essential, no drop in allowed. Wide variety of models used. Venue is a light airy hall c/w free parking, kitchen with fridge for your lunch. Tea, coffee, infusions at break times, included in fee. £32 without easel or £37.50 including easel hire. Contact Rosemarie Orwin info@modelled.me.uk  info@modelled.me.uk http://www.modelled.me.uk/dates_prices.html http://www.modelled.me.uk/dates_prices.html MODELS please note: only RAM models are employed

Quarterly, half day, Wednesday untutored Life Drawing workshops. Timing 10.00 - 13.00. Booking essential, no drop in allowed. Wide variety of models used. Venue is a light airy hall in the scenic village of Broad Hinton near Marlborough c/w free parking. Tea, coffee, infusions during the break included in fee and exclusive 15% discount off your lunch and non alcoholic beverages purchased from the local Public House on workshop days £22 without easel or £24 including easel hire. Contact Rosemarie Orwin  rosemarie@modelled.me.uk    Link to website  http://www.modelled.me.uk/dates_prices.html

RAM model Bea Green writes:  " I would like to share with you that a painting of me by an artist I model for, Errol Neill ,is hung in the RA exhibition. It was chosen as on of the 25 "Best of British" works!    I'm quite chuffed to think I'm hanging in his place...lol!   Its not a nude piece, it's one of me in a dress, actually one I don't wear very often,below the knee is too long for me, usually it's pelmets!  It's number 99 in the exhibition." Well done, Bea!

Hello all Just putting out a call for a tutor, artist or model to run an hour long class in East Grinstead on Saturday, 9 May for us. The class will run from 4-5pm. We may also need a male model, under 35 years old with good muscle definition. Reasonable fares paid and good rate for the hour. Please contact me asap if you can help or have any ideas! Thank you! Rachel RAM. www.modelreg.co.uk

Congratulations Susie Williams on her portrait being shown by the  Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Gallery . Here is the link to the exhibition .

Hello all Does anyone have public liability insurance for modelling or teaching? If so, please let me know. I get a feeling this is the way the industry may be going and, if so, will try to get a good deal with someone for RAM models and tutors Thank you!

Hi all The RAM recommended rate is now £15 per hour. Please note, this is what we want artists to aim for (or more!). They won't all achieve it straight away. But please point it out to them!!

Charlie Samson writes of his experiences: When a friend suggested I join the Register of Artist Models I was more than a little apprehensive. Not long before, as a cash-strapped student, I had been given the butt-naked runaround by a somewhat unscrupulous artist. I won’t go into great detail but it involved oil and gasmasks, and resulted in less than half the previously agreed fee. However, with a useless humanities degree under my belt and a headful of unrealistic dreams, it seemed wise to set up a few safety nets. And getting paid for sitting around in the nude certainly beats sweating the night away behind a bar, so I got in contact with Rachel and she signed me up for a trial run straight away. After my previous misadventure, joining RAM was like coming in from the wild. The introductory session at a life drawing class in North London was incredibly helpful. The gentleman running it was an experienced professional life model who was more than happy to show me the ropes, teachin...

The Scottish Sun has published an article about our life drawing  hen parties. With the catchy title of  " We Get Pollock Naked for Hens " Well done Graham Farquhar!

An article by Steve B Robinson who has been a RAM model and is an artist. We like to hear model stories..... Steve says: Years ago, too many to work out.........it will only depress me.........I was modelling full time at Loughborough University School of Art and Design (LUSAD) and it was there that I was asked to model in drag. Twice. Once for a final year student and once for an adult evening class held within the building. It was this last session that I wrote about in the old paper magazine, BARE ART. It turned into two articles as I first wrote about how this had come about and was then invited to relay the resultant session. I supplied a photograph too, which was published. As a result of this article I had a couple more sessions in this guise, I thought maybe I had found a niche market, but it was short lived. Now, so many years later, I find life almost imitating art as I attend life modelling sessions wearing a skirt and likewise any private viewings where...

Reception, Rupture and Return: The Model and the Life Room This fantastic exhibition is on until  April 15th 2015 This display examines the role of the life model for the artist (and vice versa), the evolution and disruption of the life room, and the changing status of life drawing from the 19th to the 21st centuries. It will examine both conservative and innovative practice (with an emphasis on the latter) with unique perspectives from the archives of three artists’ models. Themes included in the display the model as metaphor and the challenge to convention the model as person the model as political vehicle the avant garde and the body as vehicle for artistic idea refiguring the model in the inter-war years, the model reconceptualised post-war life drawing since the 1960s.