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Tickled pink to announce the special guest for #21 is Michael Simms - Sydney’s king of chiaroscuro. Michael is an amazing painter with an incredible sense of drama. There are about 5 tickets left for early and late. Don’t miss out. Link in bio. @michaelsimmsart @chippolord @gladdydrawingclub @totalbore @katielouiseford @timothyhughnicol https://www.instagram.com/p/CMdTUT8BvBb/?igshid=10m021y21m06o

Paper Daaaiiisies, dry media and aerosol on cotton rag, 56x76 cm, 2021. My entry for @gladdydrawingclub the show. Running a pretty fun exhibition @chippolord please slip in my DMs if you’d like to submit. https://www.instagram.com/p/CMQhPVIhCrx/?igshid=19ihl5mnr8vf2

Purple Glaze, Portrait Ramesh https://www.instagram.com/p/CMIy5j7BEj3/?igshid=mckq0gtn3wze

Delighted to announce next week's special guest is Tsering Hannaford. The quality of guest artists we are getting... Holy!!! Tsering is an absolute legend and another exceptional portrait painter who works exclusively from life. This traditional approach to painting (similar to Melanie Gray who is with us tonight) is fascinating in a time where so much art is being transposed from photographs, collage, and projectors. Better than me trying to explain this, there is a great video where Tsering outlines the value of this practice. I'll post some highlights in my stories shortly. TIX IN BIO. As of RN there is 1 ticket left for 6pm and 7 tickets for up late. @tseringhannaford @chippolord @totalbore https://www.instagram.com/p/CL5iUhqhWLg/?igshid=gckxcmb7apt4

A Tower of Auspicious Figures, dry media and aerosol on cotton rag, 56x76 cm, 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CLk5oqhBIVZ/?igshid=173nxazpsfxsz

Mad day last week shooting DMA’S for Radio X. Had a fantastic crew behind me helping with all the challenges of delivering video to UK. Also it was Gareth’s birthday. @gigpiglet @_nick_riley_ @the_naked_man @therudy . Production photos by @5_minutes_to_doors and a couple I stole from Andrew McClymont b-roll. https://www.instagram.com/p/CLVbCOphuyz/?igshid=1ftz4n5tv5263

KIM LEUTWYLER FEB 23 sold out https://www.instagram.com/p/CLSyXl1hjaN/?igshid=1drjw6wpf02gt

Super-soakered to announce all-city-party-dog Scott Owen is the headliner for the early and late classes FEB 16. Scott's oil paintings of aussie natives are absolutely stunning. It'll be interesting to see how someone with such a botanical point of view relates to life drawing. For the green thumbs out there we'll definitely find a way to work in some flower arrangements on the dais. Now, once again this one went nuts and fully sold out on presale. There are however a bunch of tickets for FEB 23 that I am ready to announce in the coming days. That one has a huge headliner, and is going to be a great night for the LGBTQIA+ community. So to make sure we can have strong queer representation in the students for that one I'm going to give the artist a bit of a headstart on the announce. I just wanna say thanks again for making the sales on this so consistently amazing. We have some hugely cool projects and collabs on the horizon. Oh, and don't forget to send Nina your submissions to GDC the group show. That is going to go off. @scottowenart @gladdydrawingclub @totalbore @chippolord @sophiecharlotte.photography @katielouiseford https://www.instagram.com/p/CLDfGbHhE3Q/?igshid=3f5kfqct2bv3

Nick Santoro - Libidinal Hymnal

Gladdy Drawing Club is excited to announce our first ever ‘end of year’ but not end of year exhibition at Goodspace Gallery featuring your art created and inspired by one of our life drawing sessions! We invite anyone and everyone who attended at least one of the drawing nights to submit their art- it can be any medium: painting, sculpture, macaroni and glue- as long as it is based on a life drawing from class and features one of our models in the work and title. Exhibition will run from 29th-31st March Entries due by 22nd March In order to focus on booking killer guests and selling out shows @totalbore and @chippolord will be taking a backseat role for this one. We’re lucky to have GDC regular Nina organising the admin for the exhibition, and Goodspace choosing finalists and curating the show. To submit, send an image of your work with the title, medium, dimensions and date (as well as the date you attended GDC) to Nina by 22nd March at [email protected] We can’t wait to see what you all submit! Rules of entry: - Entrant must have attended at least 1 session of GDC before March 22 - Work and work title must feature the likeness and name of one of our models or guest artists in some way - 1 work per entrant, max 1 square metre https://www.instagram.com/p/CK2uMm_BVRD/?igshid=od5s2wwddtnr

Some fun ones of Abdul, Navi and Thais last night. The craft paper is prettty fun. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKznTAHhZ4c/?igshid=nphivhx3bdgc

Big double headliner show next week. All sold out but just added a late show to 16 feb LINK IN BIO. Thrilled to be jamming with @genevieveorange @henrycurchod @chippolord at the legendary @gladdydrawingclub https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxNiZshO7O/?igshid=v119zy6nmzh2

We’ve added an extra (later) show to FEB 02 at 8-10pm. Oh and guess what!! The legendary @abdul_abdullah will be headlining both sessions. Abdullah is Sydney’s most explosive painter. He tore up both the Archibald and Sulman prizes last year with his hybrid styles of oil painting and line-drawing. Can’t wait to see how his immense charisma and energy inform his perspectives on life drawing. LINK IN BIO @totalbore @gladdydrawingclub @chippolord https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcb7uMBdsQ/?igshid=vebxa7bjzfrj

A Headless Ermine, dry media and aerosol on cotton rag, 56x76 cm, 2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXrxBZheEI/?igshid=dq6fi3ehph98

Yo! Psyched to announce Chris Dewar is the next headliner for Gladdy Drawing Club. The last two weeks have been such an amazing vibe. Chris is a great painter, with the most beautiful feel for colour. We are already at 13/20 on presale so looks like this set be another sell out. Link in biofuels the last few tickets. @chriswdewar @totalbore @chippolord and featuring the legendary @the_naked_man and his battle hammer on the dais https://www.instagram.com/p/CKQIf6LhYkx/?igshid=130unjoofjyt6