Life Modelling

“You’re a real natural woman!” nine-year-old student at Ottawa School of Art

“You are the best!!!” Stephanie Burdzy, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada

Since 2015, I have worked as a life model with students and artists of all ages (including young children and seniors). With a background in the performing arts, I bring a dramatic approach to the art form, working in collaboration with visual artists and students of all ages (including young children and seniors) to create expressive works of art. 

“Life modelling is a complex practice, models fulfilling myriad roles […] Modelling might itself become a physical mode of artistic practice within which the model uses their body as their medium to create works of art within the realm of performance art or contemporary dance.”

Dominic Blake, Are Life Models Artists?

I have worked at the following locations:

I regularly document my experiences as an art model on social media, and I have spoken about my work on podcasts, including Allison Burns’ dance podcast Dirty Feet. 

Recently, I presented a “Are We Artists, Too?” an interactive life modelling performance / seminar commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada, in connection with Germaine Koh’s public art installation ‘HMH Boothy’. This education presentation was open to the public and received positive feedback from the curators and the participants.