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In the Foundations Drawing course there’s a modest exercise in which students are asked to turn three circles into balls through shading.Most students do the three drawings and, perfectly reasonable, move on to the next exercise. Sharon Mulberry-Rookes had other ideas, recognising the potential to follow this thread a little further.
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In the last two films in the What is Art for series of blogs, MIMA director Alistair Hudson addresses the importance of validation for artists and touches on the possibilities of new digital platforms for artist.
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In the third and fourth of the six films Alistair Hudson expands on his ideas for rebooting the museum and then speculates on the status of the artist in this radical rethink of the way that art, museums, and society interact. Bryan discusses…
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The idea of drawing as meditation, mourning, enquiry, play, residue, process, is an important one to take on board. It isn’t just about showing how ‘well’ you can do it.
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This is the first of three blogposts that comment on six short videos prepared by Axisweb. In the first film Alistair Hudson lays the ground for a new way of thinking about art and the way it is shown in galleries and museums. In the second film he expands this speculation to think about how the museum might reboot itself to change its relation with its public.
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Join Bryan on the 19 September at the Jerwood Space in London to discuss the piece he has had selected and other works in the show.
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Katharine Stout – co-founder and director of The Drawing Room – recently gave a talk accompanying the 2015 Drawing Biennial, Bryan provides a useful commentary on the same.
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A characteristic of art practice is the possibility that the unexpected will be incorporated into it. Artists make connections and use their work to explore the world and not to just display it or their skill in representing it. In this way what we’re all doing is researching.
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Bryan’s final instalment in his blog series on exhibiting.
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A student’s Learning Log, in whatever form, is an important feature of the OCA learning experience but can be a tricky thing to get right. Over the past few years I’ve had several conversations with students about the best way to approach it.This article has been written to start a conversation about how you might get the most from writing the log while bearing in mind the work it has to do within the context of a course.
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