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There are 21 days left to see this insightful programme that is part of the Channel four series promoting young artists by getting them mentored by well known artists, film makers, etc. Hockney appearances in the media are notoriously rare, so seeing him talking about painting and drawing is a real opportunity. It is also […]
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I have been musing that looking at the popularity in the sale of art posters might help to understand the insistence of the general public in favour of figurative art of a particular sort (rather than a whole range of types of contemporary visual arts ). So, what is it that makes people ‘flash the […]
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For those of you who sigh at the increasing amounts of time we all inevitably end up spending looking at computer screens, you may have mixed feelings about the treasure chest of art resources I am going to outline below: yet more time on the web! Its the inevitable outcome of more than 20 years […]
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Back in the last century, when St Petersburg was still called Leningrad/Petragrad and mobile phones were still a dream, the OCA commissioned a hugely expensive nine hour series of videos on Art History. These videos were sent to students who enrolled on the Understanding Art 1. We have now rewritten the course and it is […]
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Introducing Rhonda Fenwick, OCA tutor, artist and blogger I began working as a tutor for the OCA in 1998 facilitating a range of drawing and painting courses, often meeting students in my studio for their tutorials. I also work as an artist in the community working in the voluntary, community, public and private Sectors. This […]
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The Campaign for Drawing does a lot to bring art into the public eye. The web based international group Urban Sketchers does a lot for those of us who love to go out and about sketching but sometimes feel a bit inhibited being out there on our own. Through this group regional and local sketching […]
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I recently visited the Yorkshire Sculpture Park – click here for a link to YSP – (just off the M1 near Wakefield), where there is a permanent sculpture collection set in a glorious landscape. YSP also have an ambitious temporary exhibition every year, with site specific sculptures created, usually huge in scale, that often look […]
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Blog of the week this month is Diana Hudson’s OCA Blog. This caught the attention because of its focus on documenting process, the frequent use of the question ‘what have you achieved? and the evidence of research informing her work. The ‘what have you achieved?’ or ‘what have I achieved?’ is a great reflective question, […]
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Creative Writing tutor Joanna Ezekiel has been working with composer Pat Livingstone to set Joanna’s poems to music, using music technology that includes sound effects such as marimbas and a klezmer band! Joanna chose five poems from her poetry collections ‘A Braid of Words’, ‘Safe Passage’, and ‘Centuries of Skin’ that had been tried and […]
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It’s quiet here at the OCA offices today. Gareth and I got back to Sheffield late last night after a long, long day. We were meeting with the University for the Creative Arts to validate our MA in Fine Art. First of all UCA had to satisfy themselves that they wanted to partner with the […]
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