A life drawing class owner has compared a London community centre to the Taliban after his nude models were told to cover up.
A spokesperson for the Hampstead Community Centre said the life drawing class was sandwiched between two children’s sessions.
‘The Hampstead Community Centre has successfully hosted Life Drawing Classes for several decades in the evenings with wide support from the local artistic community and we look forward to continuing to do so in the future.
They said: ‘Safeguarding concerns had been raised in respect of the external hire of the centre for a Life Drawing class that was being held between two regulated children’s sessions.
‘When the hirer told us that he did not want to use the centre in the evenings (for which he was offered a discount), we did posit whether a figure drawing class might be an alternative solution should he prefer to continue with a daytime booking.
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