The Drawing Foundation/ The Courtauld Institute, 'Are Life Models Artists?', June 2024. 

I presented this abridged version of my lecture 'Are Life Models Artists?' within a panel organised by by Dr Zoë Dostal (Kress Fellow, The Courtauld) and Isabel Bird (PhD candidate, Harvard University).  © 2015-26 Dominic Blake.

V&A | 'Subverting Beauty: The Greek and Roman body & Donatello', Mar 23

Short talk (in tandem with the exhibition Donatello: New Perspectives), Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre © 2023-4 Dominic Blake / V&A.

The National Gallery | Lucian Freud:  New Persepctives:  Symbiosis through Sitting January 2023 
© 2023-4 Dominic Blake / The National Gallery

Lecture delivered online at The National Gallery in tandem with their Freud exhibition.

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
'Pasquarosa, From Muse to Painter', May 2024

A short lecture exploring the art historical relationship between the muse and the painter in response to Pasquarosa's early career as a life model, and her works location within the fauvist and post-impressionist movements. This lecture took place on the occasion of the closure of the Estorick Collection's exhibition of the same name in April 2024. © 2024 Dominic Blake.

University of Cambridge Faculty of Classics | 'Are Life Models Artists (or Mercenary Drawing Instruments)?' Feb 2023

​Hosted by Professor Carrie Vout, Director, the Museum of Classical Archaeology.  

© 2015-25 Dominic Blake.