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5 Nudes: More Bucket Listers

6 min readJun 17, 2025

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Scrunched © Simon Goss ARCA 2018

As explained in the first collection of ‘Bucket Lister’ models, I drew a wide variety of volunteer students at Swansea University’s Art Club from 2018–19. The group had been opened up to local artists to help raise funds, and the students who posed mostly only did it once to tick it off their list.

It’s always interesting to draw new people, and I am invariably amazed at how quickly they become accustomed to the ‘way out of the comfort zone’ environment of a life drawing class. It’s OK if you’ve been to one and seen how it goes, but to come in ‘cold’, so to speak (it’s usually rather too hot, actually) takes some confidence.

So here is my second collection of these rather special people, all of whom brought their own persona to the room and gave it their best shot.

If you missed it, you can read the first collection here:

And the final collection here:

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