Creative Encounters Mask Painting

Come and join The Bitten Peach collective and be coached through decorating a paper mâché mask in drag makeup.

About the artists (from the Southbank Centre’s website):
Mahatma Khandi is the queen auntie supreme of the London scene – your favourite auntie’s favourite auntie. Their career spans from stage to screen (and into the basement). They’ve worked with make-up brands like MAC, NARS and Charlotte Tilbury, with their artistry being seen at London Fashion Week as well as on fashion and video shoots. Their special expertise is in show make-up: how to blend for flawlessness, how to contour to carve out those shadows into bone structure and how to shimmer and glitter to dazzle an audience from the stage. Be dazzled by Khandi’s comedic timing and fabulous fashions.

Kaajel Patel is a painter, dancer and performance artist. Born in Leicester and based in London, she works professionally across Bollywood, Indian Classical and Cabaret. Her paintings explore divinity, sensuality and ferocity within the South Asian femme, rooted in her British Asian heritage and expressed through a magical, dreamlike lens. Her make up extends her painterly world onto the face; a dreamy Bollywood goddess aesthetic. Bindis, gemstones, stringed forms and misty washes of colour transform the body into living art.

End time is approximate, you can leave earlier if you need/want to. Also, in my experience of past creative workshops in this series, arriving slightly late is fine

The event is open to the public (men and women). We may not all be seated together (depending how many show up and how big our group is)