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Study visit: African textiles in the British Museum

Posted: 20/03/13 11:56 | 3 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. On Friday 19 April there will be a study visit to the African Textiles Today exhibition at the British Museum. This promises to be a colourful and thought provoking exhibition that takes a fresh look at […]

Student log of the week

Posted: 18/03/13 01:29 | 6 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here are some pages from the exemplary learning log of OCA watercolour student Margaret O’Brien. We don’t normally highlight student’s learning logs (as opposed to blogs) since they are more difficult to convey in digital form, […]

Student work uncovered: painting prize winner Stephen Powell

Posted: 13/03/13 11:56 | 10 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here’s a peep into the painting world of Stephen Powell, dedicated OCA student, with a tremendously strong focus on his work. He won OCA’s painting prize last year, for outstanding work, demonstrating a huge amount of […]

Student blog of the week

Posted: 12/03/13 11:01 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here is a great student blog by Aylish Giamei. She is a student on Drawing 1, and has just got to her first assignment submission, studying alongside working as a vet and travelling between Leeds and […]

Observing and moving on: student work uncovered

Posted: 06/03/13 11:41 | 8 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor and assessor David Winning talks about OCA printmaking student Christine Bruce’s submission for assessment, and what he liked about it. Christine has been a student with OCA since 2009.

Popping over with work: Popova on show

Posted: 05/03/13 01:42 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor Hayley Lock reports: ‘Yelena Popova has been busy. With shows open at Cole Gallery, London; works in ‘Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union’ at The Saatchi Gallery also in London and […]

What next? Draw 3D objects in the air?

Posted: 01/03/13 10:48 | 5 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I’m excited. I saw a tweet last week from Design Milk, which immediately sent me to the Kickstarter website. A 3D doodling pen? I am a sucker for new gadgets, and have always been an early […]

Peploe study visit in Edinburgh

Posted: 27/02/13 09:27 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. We will be visiting a fabulously painterly painter in Edinburgh on 17 April. This exhibition will be particularly relevant to any OCA student studying painting. Part of the Scottish Colourist series, SJ Peploe is on at the Scottish […]

Unmissable study visit to Shonibare

Posted: 25/02/13 03:30 | 0 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Yinka Shonibare’s exhibition FABRIC-ATION is on, and should be a must for any visual artist: whether a Visual Communication specialist, textiles student or fine artist. We have a study visit planned for 24 April at Yorkshire […]

OCA's MA Fine Art is more broadly based than you might think …

Posted: 25/02/13 11:51 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. If you’d like to join a hangout to quiz the course leader for about the OCA online MA Fine Art now is your chance. Its on 19th March from 18.00 to 19.00. This is an opportunity […]