Suki Illuminated

<p>These images offer a snapshot of a six-year collaboration between life-model and poet Suki and photographer and web-designer Bel.</p><p>Suki and Bel’s multi-media project commenced with a blog discussing modelling Art and Life. This was followed up with the weekly serialisation of Suki’s illustrated three-part biographical tale <em>A Small Life Two Small Lives </em>and<em> True Life Nude.</em> These online tales illustrated by dozens of artists with whom Suki has worked have each now been published as print editions.</p><p>Two poetry collections ensued: <em>KUNST</em> themed on the artist-model relationship and illustrated by sixteen artists and <em>Thin Bones Like Wishbones</em> a joint venture with poet Sue Vickerman.</p><p>Video shorts based on each book in the trilogy were written and narrated by Suki and produced by Bel. Additionally this creative twosome made more than a dozen film shorts documenting life-rooms and individual artists at work around Yorkshire and beyond.</p><p>Suki’s manager and minder is Sue Vickerman and Bel the photographer’s indispensable assistant is Mike Kilyon. As Suki and Bel’s ‘gofers’ Sue and Mike organised performance events poetry readings and life-drawing sessions to celebrate different stages of the project’s development not to mention several exhibitions of artwork created by the innumerable artists who have been inspired by Suki.</p><p>This booklet has been published alongside a final celebratory exhibition in Bel’s home (in the context of the 2019 Three Peaks Arts Trail) the culmination of ‘The Suki Project’.</p><p>Suki the life-model and Bel the photographer are the created personas of Sue Vickerman and Mike Kilyon.</p>