• A free afternoon of drawings and exploring portraits at Borough Road Gallery

• Live drawing sessions with local artist

• CuratorTalks on portraiture and identity

• Art-inspired selfie booth

Borough Road Gallery is hosting a drop-in, free to attend art session inspired by the gallery’s collection of modern art, taking place in the gallery on Saturday 23 November.

The event will explore ideas around portraiture and identity, through an afternoon of live drawing and curator talks, an art-inspired selfie station and the chance to explore the gallery’s permanent collection of paintings and drawings.

Artist Jenny Bell will run a series of interactive drawing activities asking us to rethink how we capture movement on the page - visitors will take turns modelling and drawing in charcoal to explore the many different ways the human form can be interpreted.

Borough Road Gallery curator Theresa Kneppers will give short talks on artists representing the body, looking in-depth at two particular artworks by prominent female figures of the Borough Group, a Modern British art collective artists that formed at the Borough Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) including Dorothy Mead and Edna Mann.

This event is programmed by the Kids in Museums Youth Panel in association with the Borough Road Gallery.