Talk and draw: June

Lecturer Tilly Scantlebury and artist Kevin Christensen explore ‘The Two Friends' by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, selected to mark this year’s Pride month. First, listen to a brief talk, then respond by making your own work in this short, artist-led drawing session.

Please have to hand coloured paper (a midtone such as grey, beige or brown), coloured pencils or pastels, and anything else you might like to experiment with.

The session will take place online and will last about one hour.

This session will be accompanied by live speech-to-text transcription supported by Stagetext.

Dr Tilly Scantlebury is an art historian and one of our Gallery Educators at the National Gallery. Since completing their doctorate in 2021, Tilly has been delivering outreach workshops to young people and adults, which aim to widen access to art history. Alongside public programmes, Tilly also writes and delivers lectures in their research specialism of feminist, queer modern and contemporary art.

Kevin Christensen is an artist and one of our Gallery Educators. He uses drawing to interpret people, places and history through mark making, gesture and the movement of pen over paper. He translates these drawings into zines and comics to tell new stories, often focused on queer lives and experiences. As an educator, Kevin has encouraged audiences to interpret art and tell their own stories at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, the Farrell Centre, the Laing and Shipley Art Galleries and the National Gallery.