Anne Noble-Partridge is a high-achieving, perfectionist rebel in the life modelling scene. After relocating from her native West Country to London to study Fine Art in 1994, she set up London Drawing in 2006 and was soon running contemporary life drawing sessions at Tate Modern. There, she decided to rip up the rule book and rethink the role of the practice: ‘We couldn’t just put a life model in the gallery surrounded by abstraction and conceptual art and approach it the old-fashioned way; we had to make it relevant, so we began collaborating with the models as artists and performers, conduits through which to explore the ideas, processes and materials we encountered at the Tate.’ This radical approach sowed the seeds of the flourishing life drawing scene that now thrives in London - a legacy which has written London Drawing into the history of life drawing. Two decades on, Anne’s team runs weekly classes, workshops and events, and counts The V&A, British Museum, and Royal Academy of Arts as clients. Anne herself teaches life drawing at University of the Arts London, Royal School of Speech and Drama, and Imperial College, runs the Crypt Gallery in St Pancras Church, and has exhibited her own, mostly figurative work across Europe and America.

Other than all this, Anne’s Renaissance Selfie ‘makeovers of another lifetime’ are often the hilariously sombre highlight of the festivals she attends with her box of tricks. With the Italian masters and Cindy Sherman in mind, she deploys everyday objects - plastic bags, eye masks, pillowcases – to create regally po-faced portraits of punters, with Vic Reeves, Jessica Hynes, Rankin, Gavin Turk among them.

Any free time Anne has is preferably spent dancing, her main love. She has performed with the Royal Festival Ballet, and was lucky enough to appear with Ken Dodd as a Diddy Man at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal.