"I'll go into a pose and then I will realise that I'm actually in the pose of one of the masters," she said. Ms Lawrence said she loved the challenge of providing suitable poses for students and often found herself mimicking classic works. "I've got wrinkly elbows and one breast that is lopsided and had surgery, and for me the tell-tale signs for the life I have lived," she said. Ms Lawrence said as a young performer she did not consider nude scenes or performances.īut now she was "a more mature woman", her self-image had changed. "As a performing artist I was used to being in front of audiences and as a fine artist I knew art history." "For me it was a really nice synthesis of my own career. "I just enjoyed it so much that I just kept on doing it and have done it ever since," she said. Ms Lawrence first tried life modelling 15 years ago when she was pregnant with her second child. To be nude in front of a crowd of strangers is the perfect nightmare for many.įor performing artist and dancer Cat Lawrence, the experience is almost ethereal. "It's a state they don't achieve in any other situation and a lot of people keep coming back just for that," she said. Ms Wakefield said students often found themselves in a meditative state because capturing the complexities of the human form required extreme concentration. "Then I just adjusted and thought, 'this is just about drawing, it's not about ogling someone's body'." "The first time I went to a life art class I was about 17 years old and I did feel a bit confronted at first.
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