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Paper at the Cutting Edge

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Paper art – the use of paper itself as a means of expression in Fine Art, rather than simply as a support for drawing or painting, only began to emerge around the mid 20th century. Now there […]

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Rattle snakes and mushroom clouds

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   On 12 January nine students and two tutors from the OCA visited the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. We began by looking at ‘Futureland’, a photographic exhibition by Chris Wainwright and John Kippin which the gallery […]

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Deeply unfashionable, but look again… thumb

Deeply unfashionable, but look again…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Painting in watercolour has never lost its attraction. It is by no means an easy technique to master but it is considered an easy medium to dismiss and of course many think of it as a […]

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Royal portraiture, what place in the 21st century? thumb

Royal portraiture, what place in the 21st century?

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The latest royal portrait, the first of our royal Kate, by Elmsey, Glasgow-born, South Africa-reared and winner of the 2007 BP portrait prize, has provoked a sea of negative comments, as well as defensive repostes. See […]

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A Man with two hats

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Saturday saw 24 students and three tutors tackle a study visit to Tate Modern’s combined Moriyama Klein retrospective. And ‘tackle’ feels like the right word for what is a massive exhibition. Personally I think the approach […]

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Here is an interesting visit

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Hopefully all of our study visits are interesting, but this visit looks particularly worth the train fare. On Saturday 9 February, tutors Peter Haveland and Keith Roberts will be hosting a visit to the Open Eye […]

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Reading hard and looking hard…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   My new term at college begins on Monday (I am studying for an MA) and I start a 10 week block on curatorial theory. As a result I am reading really hard books, mostly written by […]

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Stories

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   I hope you are going to spend a bit of time with this blog post. It hasn’t taken me long to write it, for one simple reason. I have spent some time this morning catching up […]

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OCA announces a pre-degree course in drawing

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Do you enjoy drawing, but not sure if you are ready for HE level study of art or design? OCA is proud of its open access policy, but sometimes students join up to do a degree […]

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OCA's new online induction course, free to all OCA students

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA is pleased to announce a new online induction course, open to all OCA students. We really hope you will all take the time to do this course, since it will definitely help you with your […]

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