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Edinburgh: study visit to the National Gallery of Modern Art

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   From Death to Death and Other Small Tales brings together works from the private D.Daskalopoulos Collection with works from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in an exhibition which explores the significance of the body as […]

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Amateurs

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Last weekend I attended a concert given by the local choral and orchestral society in the acoustically rewarding setting of the local church, a warm and welcoming 15th-century masterpiece among the finest of East Anglian buildings. […]

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Finding arts resources for techniques and for inspiration

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It’s sometimes almost overwhelming when seeking advice on techniques, or inspiration from other artists on the internet. There are, though, some ways you can short circuit your searches, and here are some suggestions on where to […]

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Overturning a will has brought a star collection to view

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Alfred Barnes made his money from pharmaceuticals and then spent it lavishly on art. Like most American collectors at the beginning of the last century he went to Paris, then the capital of the Art world […]

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Sean O'Hagan on writing about Photography

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   In the process of working on the new Photography Level 3 professional practice module, I contacted the Guardian and Observer’s correspondent on photography, Sean O’Hagan, to ask him about how came to make a living out […]

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Siegfried Ip

Here’s photography tutor and assessor Les Monaghan talking about Siegfrield’s innovative approach

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So farewell then, Ray Manzarek

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Sometimes an introduction becomes as famous as the piece that follows. The dramatic chords at the beginning of Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in Bb minor are instantly recognisable in their own right, even though their principal purpose […]

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Portia and Desdemona – Venetian cousins

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The writer John Toft is best known as a novelist. His depictions of his native Staffordshire, published in the 1970s and ‘80s, are cited in The Oxford Companion to English Literature as examples of the regional novel, which describe […]

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What makes a great portrait?

I had been asking myself this question when this image arrived in my inbox like a lightning bolt out of the blue.

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The Motorway Service Station…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Photography tutor, Andrew Conroy, has created the piece above entitled ‘The Drive’ in which poet Simon Armitage reads his own poem ‘Gymnasium’ with music by Ian Baxter. The poem is from a collection called ‘The Motorway […]

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