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Do you ever yearn to get away from it all, to walk by the sea or sit on a mountain-top, to lose yourself in nature? Or to live the simple life, free from the rampant materialism of the modern world? Do you ever fear that science and technology may go too far? If thoughts like […]
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Tutor Hilary Beachamp has a new show of collaborative work opening this week and the One And A Half Gallery in North London. In this collaborative project, she has worked with John Dawson whose finely thrown porcelain forms are decorated with her paintings and drawings. The pieces draw from their first hand experiences whilst teaching […]
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If Winifred Nicholson were alive today I’m sure she would have approved of Prof Brian Cox’s explanation of the significance of light in the last of his series Wonders of the Universe. For Winifred Nicholson art was a means of exploring and expressing her fascination with light. From an early stage, she was moved to […]
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Last Saturday afternoon a small group gathered in front of the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park. After a brief exchange of information –how far we had travelled, our connection with the OCA, what courses everyone was on – we were straight in. We were here on a mission — to respond to Nancy Spero’s life […]
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Paul, our webmaster, is off at Focus on Imaging so we can’t touch the main OCA website. Having announced the Creative Writing Degree at the end of last week, it wasn’t long before someone noticed that we need a third level one course in Creative Writing to complete the degree programme. This course, to be […]
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Aspiring writers and textiles enthusiasts take note! The OCA has just had two new degrees validated — a BA(Hons) Creative Writing degree and a BA(Hons) Textiles degree. The BA(Hons) Creative Writing degree offers a wide range of specialist modules, including narrative and dialogue, writing for children, life writing and writing poetry. It’s the only open […]
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There was another fascinating BBC4 programme on Monday evening called Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits. I only caught about half of it, and mean to watch it on iPlayer over the weekend. Below are the things that struck me, but there was a lot more. I hope you’ll watch it over the […]
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There have been a number of musings on this blog recently … and here are mine on a recent BBC 4 documentary, called Beautiful Equations. (Repeated, 20 January at 20.00) Artist and art critic Matthew Collings explored connections between art and science – a topic I am fascinated by, married as I am to a […]
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On “M”ness As announced recently on this blog, the OCA is developing an MA in Fine Art in conjunction with the University of the Creative Arts – see here. Last week we were invited to their Epsom campus in Surrey for an “M”-ness workshop, the task of the day being to define what it is […]
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Art in Action is an extraordinary event. It’s a 4-day celebration of the arts and crafts held every July in the grounds of Waterperry House, somewhere near Oxford, and attracts some 25,000 visitors. Marquees house displays of paintings, sculptures, woodwork, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, glass and jewellery. 400 top artists, designer makers, musicians and performers not […]
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