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Love reading

Posted: 12/02/13 09:52 | 0 Comments

Lovelorn, partnered, married, happily single: this week, it’s hard to avoid the tacky manifestations that now accompany the annual celebration – or commiseration – that is Valentine’s Day.

Meet the Tutors: Charlotte Grierson

Posted: 11/02/13 04:28 | 15 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Charlotte Grierson is a textile artist and designer who specialises in weaving. Last November, we visited her in her studio at Cockpit Arts in Deptford. Her response to the question “Why weaving?” was unexpected. It apparently […]

Appropriation: photography into tapestry

Posted: 11/02/13 03:37 | 1 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Artist Marc Quinn has appropriated a powerful image, indeed one of the defining images of the London riots, and turned it into a tapestry. He acquired the rights of the iconic image of a masked and […]

Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour – a London study visit

Posted: 11/02/13 12:16 | 2 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This is a wonderful opportunity for textile students to see the work of this prolific, practitioner of contemporary craft. The study visit will be on Friday 3 May and start at 11.00. Tutors Pat Moloney and […]

Logging and blogging

Posted: 11/02/13 12:17 | 5 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA encourages its students to keep learning blogs, rather than or as well as paper based learning logs. Blogs are a great way to share your learning with others, get feedback and make tentative steps towards […]

Olivia's show

Posted: 10/02/13 01:25 | 7 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. From time to time OCA tutors tell us about their new shows. Here is Olivia telling us about hers. ‘I currently have an exhibition of paintings at the Linenhall, Castlebar, County Mayo in Ireland. It runs […]

Blog of the week: Simon Lewis

Posted: 08/02/13 02:44 | 13 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I’m grateful to photography tutor Andrea Norrington for pointing out our latest Blog of the Week. Simon Lewis’ learning blog for his People and Place course stands out because of the way you can see clearly […]

Dogyears

Posted: 07/02/13 11:43 | 13 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. It was only a matter of time I suppose before I found myself reflecting on the potential for an inter relationship between the two main modes of my professional practice – my studio work and the […]

The risk of taking photos outside… and drawing?!

Posted: 07/02/13 10:03 | 27 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. An OCA student has documented her battles with attempting to draw and take reference photos outside. It’s an interesting point, so I asked if I could reproduce what she wrote of her experience, and she agreed, though […]

Crazy Voyage

Posted: 04/02/13 12:48 | 8 Comments

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The first year Fine Art undergraduates at Edinburgh, work in adjacent studios to me, on the other side of the art college’s large sculpture court. In the first week of term, when we post graduates did […]