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OCA students on flying carpets and fairy tales

Posted: 13/03/13 09:12 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. An OCA study group is just back from a sumptuous exhibition that brings together works by the London based artist, Raqib Shaw, who mixes imagery taken from his Indian background with rococo decorative devices and comic […]

Fantastical worlds, ceramic mugs and jingoism

Posted: 20/01/13 02:18 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA is running another study visit, rich with diversity, beginning with the Raqib Shaw Exhibition, followed by a tour of selected works at Manchester Art Gallery on the theme of ‘Constructing the Other’. This will run […]

Erotically shaped vegetables and cheap nylon tights

Posted: 30/10/12 11:19 | 1 Comments

On 17 October 10 students and two tutors from OCA visited Leeds to see work by Sarah Lucas and Helen Chadwick at the Henry Moore Institute, a mixed show about the relationship between drawing and sculpture and Leeds Art Gallery’s outstanding collection of 19th and 20th century British art. The group, which comprised mainly sculptors, […]