"The first disrobe is the hardest." "The first disrobe is the hardest." "I've been nude pretty much all over Glasgow." "My husband was appalled the first time I did it. You'd think I was working as a ...

A television series has just lifted the lid on life drawing, Matt Thomas meets two models who take off their clothes for art and finds out about life on the far side of the canvas. A television series ...

People often ask how I became a life model, but it doesn’t seem at all odd to me. It was a job I always knew was there, like being a doctor or a fireman. Starting up two years ago was like most first ...

For centuries men and women have been stripping off for art. Without this group of willing nudists great art just wouldn't have been - well - interesting. There would be no David, no Venus - none of ...

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that an arts student in possession of a good degree must be in want of a job. When I graduated in 2007 my “hearty” friends had careers lined up at banks and ...

More than a dozen artists have wedged themselves around a small Brunswick art studio in Melbourne's inner-north, laying out canvasses, setting up easels and testing their pens. Some made an hour-long ...

For most, taking your clothes off in front of a room full of people would be nothing short of a terrifying experience. But Ken Ralphs and Trudi Wright do it all in the name of art – modelling for ...

Rachel McCarthy is a working life model who runs the Register of Artists’ Models. Here she talks to Metro about the risks involved in life modelling, the difficulties of sitting still for a period of ...

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Looking at the great nude portraits of the past – the Olympia, the unclothed lady picnicking next to the suits in Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe – you can't help wondering what the models were ...

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