Visual Artist Tanya Raabe makes work around the theme of body image. Her blog concentrates on 'Revealing Culture: HeadOn' - an artwork and piece of research exploring identity, disability culture, in contemporary portraiture and the nude.

Tanya Raabe offers an update on her gallery research as part of Revealing Culture:Head On

25 February 2010

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I've spent 2 days mooching around the galleries in Tate Liverpool and am picking up some interesting comments from the public reguarding the representation of disability culture. Comments suggest that some members of the public feel representation already exists in the artworks on display. Some young people had strong opinions about how disabled people are seen in the artworks on display. They talked about the 'Dwarf on a Table' and 'Ghost' as being disabling. They felt that the texts alongside...

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Tanya Raabe blogs her Tate Modern sitting with Deb Williams

25 February 2010

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I'm back!!!! been on a bit of a journey... Debs Williams was my next sitting in Tate Modern and she was a brilliant subject with a great disability cultural history to tell. This included her talking about her storytelling within her theatre company 'Reality Productions' and how she felt about where the female nude sits in art... Having not previously asked Debs to pose nude for me... I don't know why I didn't ask her.....she says she would have considered it. It struck us both that when...

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Tanya Raabe writes about the Tate Modern sitting with Sophie Morgan, as part of her project 'Revealing Culture: Head On'

1 February 2010

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Well, the event of drawing Sophie Morgan in Tate Modern was certainly an experience never to be forgotten. I was a little nervous to begin with, at the thought of the public watching me creating my drawings in graphite and acrylic paint. As I strained to reach the top of my drawing board with my paintbrush and ink dropper, the audience were mesmerised. People joined me in drawing this spectacle. The day before I was wandering round the galleries researching artworks that depict disability in...

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