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Hayley Lock, Author at The Open College of the Arts

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OCA Fine Art: Call and Response thumb

OCA Fine Art: Call and Response

In March this year I was asked to host the first Call and Response session as part of BA (Hons) Fine Art group work, to look at different venues and collections around the world that were perhaps lesser known in relation to the different degree programmes offered at the OCA.

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What is your tutor up to? Hayley Lock thumb

What is your tutor up to? Hayley Lock

It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of Confer – Karnac Art Space, located at Confer – Karnac (Karnac books) in Strype Street, London E1.

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Student work: Suzanne Conboy-Hill in conversation with Hayley Lock thumb

Student work: Suzanne Conboy-Hill in conversation with Hayley Lock

OCA student Suzanne Conboy-Hill has negotiated the use of one of her art works by the internationally renowned company Swatch®. The story touches on so many aspects of life as a working artist; the power of Instagram for Visual Art, copyright and intellectual property, pricing and contracts, that I asked Suzanne and her tutor Hayley Lock to share a conversation about Suzanne’s experience with Swatch®.

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Virtual study event: NO SHOW, MA Fine Art 2020

Join students from the MA Fine Art cohort along with tutor Hayley Lock to view and discuss the work made for NO SHOW, the first virtual exhibition held by the OCA. Wednesday 29 July 6pm – 8pm

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Virtual study event: A little magic thumb

Virtual study event: A little magic

Whatever is your new reality, the OCA London group and Hayley Lock invite you to be part of a workshop that introduces, elevates and expands on new ways of thinking and working by offering new insights into the imaginative processes sustained by artists, by introducing wider reading, as well as support you through introducing imagination into your own making.

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In conversation with: Hayley & Ása thumb

In conversation with: Hayley & Ása

Tutor Hayley Lock chats to student Asa Aradottir about her interests in ecology and how her passions for her immediate landscape are becoming integrated in your OCA studies. They also discuss  how Asa moves her painting practice through the different landscapes of Iceland and Arizona. All photographs courtesy of Ólafur Arnalds.

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Study event review: OCA London fine art thumb

Study event review: OCA London fine art

‘As a Foundation Drawing student this day was very important. There were people from all stages of learning gathered together and we shared our learning. I saw that art can be immense, that sharing is enlightening and that being physically close to tutors and peers gave my learning more ‘bite’.’

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Jules de Balincourt

Join Hayley Lock on the 17 March at Victoria Miro Mayfair in London.

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Study visit review: Nicola Tyson. thumb

Study visit review: Nicola Tyson.

It was to my great delight that the Study Visit to see Nicola Tyson’s show titled Beyond the Trace at The Drawing Room in London was filled to capacity and with a couple of extra students waiting in the wings we had a great few hours interrogating and discussing the works on show, all of which held the common ground of being works on paper.

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