A harsh red light fills the studio space. The black bedsheets flung across the centre of the floor take on a deep crimson hue. A woman appears. There’s a spiked halo crown nestled into her long hair. As she walks, flickering candles frame her path to the clearing. Finally, she reaches the sheets and lets her robe drop to the floor.
It’s a Tuesday evening in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. A group of curious minds have gathered together not for a séance or an interactive theatre performance, but for a life-drawing class. Frances Powell and Rhianna Phillips, the best friends behind Studio Maverik, have managed to make their life-drawing session more cinematic than when Jack sketches Rose in Instead of drawing the models as if they were one of Jack’s French girls, they draw them asthe senses,” Rhianna adds, laughing.
