“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.” When I posted the above quotation from Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex on Facebook the other day, it was my lame attempt at some intellectual form of passive-aggressive banter. Unsurprisingly, nobody got it. Especially not my housemates, who were most likely soiling all the surfaces that I had most likely recently made clean. I had come downstairs that morning to find empty beer cans littering the coffee table, as well as dirty plates and glasses, and a pair of pliers which, try as I might, I cannot explain. The kitchen was in a worse state: countless crisp packets were strewn across the table, evidence of what I imagine was a pre-dawn weed binge. Plates, some still with sizeable bits of egg and toast, remained from the previous morning’s fry up, and potentially the morning before that (don’t worry, the pans and cutlery were in the sink, so they don’t count as mess). Cardboard toilet rolls live on the windowsill forever in my house, apparently. Crumbs are welcome on...

The artist’s model is an enigmatic creature. Living, but perfectly still. Conscious, but silent. The atmosphere at the Brighton Life Drawing Sessions’ class tonight is relaxed, and yet everyone is hard at work, scribbling frantically to a soft backdrop of folk music and the sound of the kettle boiling, ready to make the first round of tea. In the centre of the room is Collette Tarbuck, reclining on a stack of paisley patterned pillows, nude and serene. In a strange way it is almost jarring to see a naked woman like this, outside of the sexualised context in which we are so used to viewing them. Look to the nearest form of media and there’s a good chance that you will be met with the image of a scantily clad woman, appropriately devoid of all bodily fat and hair, with skin airbrushed to perfection. “Women are judged on their attraction in one way, and that’s sexual attraction,” says Collette, a 22 year old computer game artist, after the session. She tells me that when she first started life modelling, seeing the drawings afterwards would cause her great distress. Comparing the drawings of herself to typical media representations of women...

Brian, the renegade bumblebee has committed an atrocity. Renata and Stephen’s relationship is very much on the rocks. The police sergeant has a fish for a foot. Intuitive Creatures’...