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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. A walk by the River Thames in the morning down the alleyways and round the corners that inspired the novels of the Victorian writer Charles Dickens. An afternoon getting to know the house in Bloomsbury that […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Jose Navarro was an innovative and committed Curriculum Leader for Photography. He was the main motivating force behind developing the programme of study visits which started in photography and expanded out to other subject areas. He […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Sebastião Salgado’s work has many admirers but is not without its detractors. His eight year project Genesis is currently on display at the Natural History Museum and to enable students to make their own mind up […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor India Ritchie reports: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has chosen to remove the category of ‘crafts’ as a recognised creative industry as part of a paper for classifying and measuring the […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor Michele Whiting reports on a successful visit to the Barbican. ‘After an early start for most of us, catching trains, buses and coaches with even an overnight coach for one of our students; we […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Pottering about on the internet, I found this lovely little video of an artist being interviewed by a group of schoolboys. Although the tone of the video is quite basic (it was made for the now […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Putting a pencil to paper and making a line is unexpectedly, and thankfully, life affirming. My dad died last year, followed by my friend Joanna and our family dog, all within weeks of each other. This is […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here is OCA tutor and assessor Jim Unsworth looking at some excellent figure drawings by OCA student Sue Elliott. […]
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor and assessor Richard Liley examines Margaret O’Brien’s work, and picks out her sketchbooks for special attention.
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA Curriculum Leader Sarah Taylor reports: As Bryan’s blog (15 May) pointed out, this is Showtime! So, don’t miss this perfect opportunity to view the work of your contemporaries in the field. It is not only […]
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