Staffordshire St LATES | An evening with Peckham Life Drawing x The Wicker Arms | FoC workshop

This themed life drawing session invites you step into The Wicker Arms and draw experiences from a very special model who will share some of their embodied folk/horror practice in their poses.

For fun or your folio. All abilities welcome no experience needed.

Drawing materials are provided, but you are welcome to bring your own too.


Info:

Wednesday 13th August
19.00 - 21.00
 

Tickets:

General Admission: £12

This event is suitable for 16+

If you would like to attend but the cost is prohibitive, please get contact info@staffordshirest.com. If you are financially able, please consider donating, to keep Staffordshire St events accessible to all.

 

Luce Russell | Peckham Life Drawing | @peckham.lifedrawing | @drawing.people.together :

Luce Russell (MA RCA) is a Peckham based artist known for works on paper; a juxtaposition of longing obsessive pencil drawings and immediate feral pastels with practice and research focusing on drawing people and experiences of embodiment. Recent exhibitions include See Berious at Filet (2024) and
Together We Draw at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (2022).

Since 2017 Luce has been inviting everybody to draw (everybody) as Peckham Life Drawing. Creating and facilitating diverse range sessions that widen
experiences of life drawing beyond just observationally drawing a model. Sessions include the Garden Museum, Crisis, Southwark Pensioners Centre,
Central Saint Martins, OHSH projects and Set Social.

Approaching life drawing as both noun and verb, experiments in queering the notion of traditional life drawing by diversifying both whom and how we approach and disseminate representation as a community. Inviting serious play between paper and skin, and acts of embodiment, making creative spaces where everybody is welcome to sketch and/or pose and everybody has the potential to be art/ists.
Luce also founded and continues to facilitates the Peckham based socially engaged practice Drawing People Together.

As well as co-founding the Queer Art Boot Fair (Peckham 2024 & 2021), Russell curated the exhibitions Make an Exhibition of Yourself at Copeland Gallery
(2022) and People in a Room at Holdrons Arcade (2021).

About the exhibition: 

Staffordshire St presents The Wicker Arms. Inspired by a fascination with folk horror, curatorial platforms ha. lf and the icing room come together to transform the space at Staffordshire St into an artist-inspired pub and immersive exhibition.

Incorporating work from 20 artists, The Wicker Arms materially explores ideas around community, through which we refocus narratives of belonging.
 

The Wicker Arms will be the centrepiece of Staffordshire St’s annual Festival of Community 2025: a collaborative programme of workshops, events, exhibitions and drop-ins that will celebrate our neighbourhood and the communities that fill its streets. Exploring notions of community, place and belonging, Staffordshire St will become a locus for playful creativity and celebratory knowledge sharing.

Accessibility: There is step-free access to the gallery via the door to the left hand side of the main entrance. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet. The event will be taking place in the exhibition space, which is a large open room with bright lighting and some seating available.
 

Staffordshire St is an independent project space in Peckham, South East London. The venue facilitates arts and cultural events and provides affordable studios for artists, makers and designers. ​

Staffordshire St is not-for-profit and all income is invested into developing our public programme which launched the summer of 2022. The venue was established as an art gallery in 2017, before then it was vacant for many years after a community centre closed. Originally it was built as a Methodist Hall. We intend to support a range of cultural events for the local community.
 

Staffordshire St will build on the established record of these histories, opening up again to the neighbourhood and developing a welcoming interdisciplinary arts space. More information on upcoming events at : info@staffordshirest.com or @staffordshirest