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We know what we like ……

The Daily Mail have recently carried out a study: ModernArtDailyMail on people’s viewing habits of contemporary art in order to draw conclusions about what constitutes ‘good’ art. The measure used was the amount of time people spend viewing works of art. This was used to gauge how interested/stimulated they were about the work of art. […]

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Textile, Silver, Wood

Joanna Kinnersly-Taylor is a printed textile artist and designer and tutor with the OCA and is based in Glasgow. She is exhibiting new work at the Danish Cultural Institute in Edinburgh as part of ‘Textile, Silver, Wood’, with Alisdair McKay, Bente Astrup Moe and Sidsel Dorph-Jensen. The current scope of Joanna’s printed textile practice embraces […]

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Creativity out of protest?

I’ve got a postcard with this heading and the statements below it on the wall at home. Displayed with a somewhat tongue in cheek intent of course, it does act of a reminder, not just of my ardent feminism in the 70s, but, on International Womens’ Day (today) perhaps it’s appropriate to look at the […]

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A workshop at 3am?

We waved at Jennifer on her webcam, wrapped up with a cup of something in her hand as we introduced each other on the orientation workshop for the new MA programme. OCA has recently launched its ground breaking MA in Fine Art online, which started with a two day workshop in Barnsley which attracted most […]

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Lonely hearts?

Technology brings communities together. Networking sites like Flickr allow artists to share their work and at the same time build up a community of like minded artists. Mostly these are remote communities in which you develop ‘friendships’ in all corners of the globe, but sometimes there are opportunities to meet face to face and share […]

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The Art of Sketchbooks

I like sketchbooks best.  I mean, often they are more exciting that the finished article.  They have layers of work and re-work, layers of meaning, of frustration, anxiety, joy and pain.  The best sketchbooks are also brimming with ideas, and show the artist’s journey in a ‘warts and all’ way. This made me excited about […]

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17 museums, 9 countries, 486 artists

This great new resource, the Google Art Project, launched yesterday, captures work from 17 museums, 9 countries, 385 gallery rooms, 1,000 high-resolution artworks (7 to 14 billion pixels), and 486 artists. Google have used similar software to zoom in on images as they have on maps, and certainly it pays off. The Google Maps ‘Street […]

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Profit in art?

Francis Ford Coppola recently made an interesting statement in an interview about whether artists (in the broadest sense of the word) should be paid for their work. Here’s the relevant paragraph: ‘You have to remember that it’s only a few hundred years, if that much, that artists are working with money. Artists never got money. […]

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Challenging art copyright

Jeff Koons, the pop artist known for making art objects from every day objects, has demanded that a shop in San Francisco stops selling book-ends that look like balloon dogs. This is because once he made art out of such objects. The logical extension of his objection is that anyone who makes or sells a […]

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It's complicated being artistic …

A recent piece in the magazine Frieze about the concerns contemporary artists have caught my attention, and made me wonder what preoccupies those OCA students who are striving to be better artists? The article contends that artists’ main preoccupations are to have the space in order to do whatever comes next.  But then, what does […]

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