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Introducing Sarah Taylor, new Textiles Curriculum Leader thumb

Introducing Sarah Taylor, new Textiles Curriculum Leader

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Our new textiles curriculum leader, Sarah Taylor, introduces herself below. We are very pleased to have her join the team.     ‘My interests lie in the exploration of light within cloth. Since the mid-1990s I […]

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Format 13

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Format, the Derby International Photography Festival opens in March and OCA tutors Jose Navarro and Andrew Conroy will be leading a study visit on Saturday 16 March. The Festival is clearly going from strength to strength […]

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Student work uncovered: Carole Yerbury thumb

Student work uncovered: Carole Yerbury

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Jim Unsworth, art tutor and assessor, gives us an insight into some preliminary sketches in black and white and colour.  

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Farewell HMV

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It is sad when we must prepare our valediction for the demise of yet another great high-street store.   There was a shock of near incredulity when the rumours of the possible disappearance of Woolworths suddenly became […]

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It's not about the Manet… thumb

It's not about the Manet…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Saturday saw an OCA study visit to the V&A exhibition Light from the Middle East and the Laura Letinsky show Ill Form and Void Full at the Photographers’ Gallery. We were ably supported by tutors Simon […]

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Manet disappoints

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Once again there are lengthy around the block queues at London’s Royal Academy. Their publicity department has done its job to perfection, having honed its skills on last year’s Hockney exhibition and further managed the expectations […]

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Creating atmosphere

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   We have featured the work of student Emil Nemecek before – back in 2011 his blog caught the eye of his Graphic Design tutor. Now Emil is tackling Digital Film Production. Assignment 2 is about creating […]

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On Beauty — how politically incorrect is that? thumb

On Beauty — how politically incorrect is that?

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   In 1998, Elaine Scarry declared that for the previous two decades (ie from the late 70s to the late 90s) beauty had been “banished from the humanities”. It wasn’t that beautiful things that had been banished, […]

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Getting Out There

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Probably some of the most terrifying words you’ll ever hear as a photographer if you are anything like me.   What if no-one will like it, what if I get a bad review, what if they […]

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Kitaj and Hepworth gems on show in a great study visit opportunity thumb

Kitaj and Hepworth gems on show in a great study visit opportunity

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA is running a visit to the RB Kitaj Exhibition and Barbara Hepworth’s Hospital Drawings’ at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Saturday 23 March 2013. We’ll meet at 11 am at the reception and ticket office […]

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