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Photography students often ask for advice about submitting work for assessment, so with this in mind Jose Navarro has recorded a series of short videos on some of the key themes. They are: 1. More doesn’t necessary mean better (above) 2. About digital submissions 3. Submitting work as a book 4. Submitting prints for assessment […]
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Are limited editions about making money? Milking the value of whatever you have produced? My view on limited editions for anything other than fine art printmaking has just changed. Why? A result of a conversation with a photographer yesterday. And this image of a sheep produced using Brushes on my iPhone a couple of years […]
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Jim Cowan, course leader for Fine Art, will be running a study day at Tate Britain in London on Saturday 2 July. This is not an exhibition specific visit but rather, an exploration of the wonderful new display in the gallery. He will focus on key works of Modern British Art putting them in context […]
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How important is freedom of expression to you? How far does public status/fame/celebrity as an artist protect you? Ai Weiwei had reason to be an outspoken artist for up to a short while ago he was the only creative voice daring to express views that challenged the status quo in China, and seemed to all […]
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Caroline Wright (OCA MA Fine Art unit leader) raises lots of questions about the purpose of exhibiting art. This five minute segment of her first lecture in the online MA Fine Art programme gives a taste of the sort of issues that are raised for discussion within the 15 strong MA cohort, and poses questions […]
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‘Mire’ is the visual outcome of a three year research art/science project by artist and Open College of the Arts Tutor, Liz Douglas. She has been researching diatoms found in pools at Murder Moss, one of the Whitlaw Mosses in the Scottish Borders. Whitlaw Mosses are a National Nature Reserve, a site of special scientific […]
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Sheffield’s first Tour-de-Sketch took place yesterday, with support from the Pedal Ready Cooperative A few sketchers were wobbly and unconfident on bicycles, so the Pedal Ready team coached them first, checked the bikes over, even supplying some spanking new bikes on loan, and then we set off, with the Cycle leader at the front and […]
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OCA painting and printmaking tutor James Willis on his new exhibition and experience of India…. My trip to India was made several years ago. During a hectic tour of Agra, Jaipur and Delhi I managed to sketch all the time and even make a few watercolour studies in a sketchbook. By the end of this […]
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Tipped In is a novel in progress by Martha Lea, creative writing student with OCA. Martha’s work has been highlighted to us at HQ recently and we are pleased to give you a taste of her writing here. It comes from Chapter Two, set in Edinburgh. ‘What’s this – what the?’ you said, pointing at […]
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…but in fact was a pile of generously donated precious sketchbooks from all sorts of people, that formed part of a ‘sketchbook handling’ exhibition at the Sketchbook Conference in Cambridge on Saturday. Organised by Access Art this tremendously animated conference was full of artists and educators, extolling the virtues of keeping a sketchbook. Led by […]
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