Register of Artists' Models News

RAM and Rachel McCarthy feature in this blog. In it, Patrick speaks of how he found RAM and how much he admires the work we do! RAM and Rachel

I feel I must mention the wonderful work RAM model Lucy Saunders and her colleague, Esther Bunting do via the marvellous organisation Spirited Bodies. The idea is that anyone can model - and these group events are truly joyous occasions. They also, very kindly, audition models for RAM membership. Here is a recent Daily Mail article about them.: Keep up the good work, ladies!

RAM model, Clifford Allison, sent us this description of his recent tv experience! My turn for a TV stint today - a life modelling session filmed for television. It lasted 2 hours (eventually!) with a half hour break in the middle for the 2 groups of artists to complete separate questionnaires. This was all a staged subterfuge on the 20 artists there, who believed they were attending a televised life modelling session. Well, they were, but that was not the point of the programme, which was a scientific exercise to observe what they ate during the break! I'm not sure how that part went but I was pleased with the session, especially the spontaneous applause the tutor and I got from the artists at the end. The programme is called ' Secret Eaters ' (sic) and, provided none of the guinea pigs object, it will air on Channel 4  on 16 May 2013.

RAM life model is set to ride nude on horseback through the streets of Newcastle! Model and actress Zoe Simon  in collaboration with  Czech performance artist Tereza Buskova will stage the Corn Women project  in which actress Zoe Simon will ride through the car park beneath the old Commercial Union building off Newcastle’s Pilgrim Street to a musical accompaniment. The event will be filmed to be shown at a gallery in the city, in a performance involving Northumbria and Teesside universities. Tereza, who is originally from the Czech Republic, studied fine art at Northumbria University before moving to the Royal College of Art and becoming feted in London and abroad for her talent. Her work has been described as blending “dreamy, visceral images” of nature and magic to reinterpret traditional Bohemian rituals and old pagan traditions. http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2012/10/09/artist-s-work-comes-to-life-thanks-to-newcastle-lawyer-61634-3199411...

Cork Street, the iconic international art street, is in danger of being demolished and turned into luxury apartments.  The Cork Street galleries have created a public campaign to save it. Help by Signing the Petition   S AVE CORK STREET RALLY A rally will take place from 11am-midday, Saturday 13th October Outside Native Land's office at 10-12 Cork Street, W1 The rally will be a peaceful, artistic gathering of artists, arts professionals and local Mayfair residents and will include a backdrop of brightly coloured Save Cork Street banners. A group photo will be taken - please come and join us. www.savecorkstreet.com

Angela Plater came to modelling later in life - and is showing us all what it's all about! Her first assignment (via RAM!) was with Rankin and Channel 4 and she has been working with a variety of artists and photographers giving her a diverse portfolio.   Her image has been hanging in the Amstel Gallery Amsterdam. She sat for a work by David Kretschmer 'Confessions' where she was invited to Germany to work. This image has now been published in the German Magazine PROFIFOTO which may be accessed online. She has worked the catwalk just the once for the Cambridge Weight Plan Convention in 2011 and was highly praised. She has recently been cast as a naked elderly lady in Terry Johnson's ' Hysteria ' to take place in Bath at the Royal Court Theatre from July 23rd to August 18 then on tour for three weeks until September 8th 2012. Well done - an inspiration!!

Zoe works with Tereza - see details and photos