Bareback Museum: Part 2: Life Drawing Performance Workshop Acts of Mercy

MOCA London invites you to take part in a life drawing and performance workshop. Drawing material will be provided for you to participate or bring along a sketchbook.

The Bareback Museum explores intimacy, sexual health and the management of change for LGBTQ communities and institutions dealing with sexual health decisions about unprotected sex.

Miles Coote, Doctor Angela Hodgson-Teall and Juliet Scott will present part one and part two of a three part work in progress, developing their ideas of a Bareback Museum and communities of health. An exhibition of their artworks and new artworks created by the audience will be displayed for the duration of the weekend.

Life Drawing Performance Workshop Acts of Mercy
Angela Hodgson-Teall will offer a life drawing workshop and performance based on her response to the four Frederick Cayley Robinson Acts of Mercy murals (1915 - 1920) from the Middlesex Hospital, where Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman doctor in Britain studied, before being petitioned to leave by the male medical students. Angela was a medical student and junior doctor at the Middlesex. She was also there when the country’s first Aids ward was set up. The paintings influenced her deeply and were cherished by staff.

Using lines of her poems and poses from the paintings, Angela will examine what it means to make actions within the world of health, tracing acts of mercy, pity and empathy from the scenes of orphans, animals, children, wounded soldiers and hospital staff of the first World War.

The paintings can be viewed at the
Wellcome Collection library
183 Euston Road
London, NW1 2BE