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Laura Knight and Thomas Bayrle Visit

Gerald on the recent North east study visit

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Flesh and Bone study visit report

The title, Flesh and Bone, seems macabre enough to have put anyone off a Saturday morning visit. The local flooding that cut off Oxford from the south and the circuitous route to the exhibition past the Ashmolean’s collection of musical instruments and ceramics proved further obstacles. Nevertheless, ten OCA students assembled to see the work […]

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Fancy A Weekend in Leeds?

OCASA is considering supporting a day of lectures for OCA students that would explore ten key ideas that have influenced contemporary art. Given sufficient interest, the study day would take place at the Hilton Hotel in Leeds on Saturday 10 May between 10.00 and 18.00. Students could attend at a day rate of £50, which […]

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Flesh and Bone in Oxford

This study visit on Saturday 11 January looks at two giants of 20th-century British art renowned for creating unforgettable images of the human figure. With over 60 works on display – some of them rarely seen in public – this show will present surprising parallels in the work of these two great artists. Despite working […]

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All that is solid melts into air…

A gem of a study visit in Manchester on Saturday 23 November. Following his recent exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Turner prize-winner Jeremy Deller has curated a show that takes a personal look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture. His selection ranges from contemporary music, film and photography with a […]

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Aix Marks the Spot: European Capital of Culture

Post-Impressionists, Rodin, Photography, Contemporary Art – so where are all the visitors to the European Capital of Culture? Visitors to the European Capital of Culture Marseille-Provence may gradually suspect that the organisers have two underlying aims. The first is to celebrate the extraordinary achievement of artists in responding to the landscape and culture of the […]

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Saatchi Gallery study visit is a hit

Only about half of the 15 students who visited the Paper exhibition had been to the Saatchi Gallery before. Many, including several who had travelled from outside London and were attending OCA study visits for the first time, expressed their immediate and positive response to the 12 airy, light-filled galleries and to the friendly welcome […]

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OCA students take an early Barthes in Manchester

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   >DigIt, the Manchester International Festival exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery that OCA students visited on the 18 July, is the sixtieth incarnation in one shape or another of an idea that had originally been devised in […]

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Pallant House gets thumbs up!

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It was a pleasant surprise for most of the students who visited Chichester on the 23 March to discover the elegant Queen Anne House and its superb collection of Twentieth Century Art, they had not been […]

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Accidents, appliances and horse hair

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   We’ve just had a visit to the debated Judy Chicago exhibition, at Ben Uri, where there was much discussion about the Jewish and Christian imagery in her work and whether her bright colours, organic shapes and […]

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