An artist residency and collaborative exhibition space with events and workshops hosted by Fra Beecher
Join Fra Beecher for the closing event of her residency at The Launderette. The work on display will be curated from a selection of new works made with collaborators during her two-week residency.
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)
Events schedule:
- Wednesday 6th August – Life Drawing – 7-9pm
- Thursday 7th August – Opening Night – 6-9pm
- Saturday 9th August – Swim Wild, Write Free (Part 1) – Conham River Park – 2-4pm
- Sunday 10th August – Creative Collage – 2-4pm
- Tuesday 12th August – Life Drawing – 7-9pm
- Thursday 14th August Swim Wild, Write Free (Part 2) – 7-9pm
- Friday 15th August Evening Closing Event – 6-9pm
- Saturday 16th August Daytime Closing Event – 12-6pm
