This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA tutor and course writer Nina Milton is launching her crime fiction novel, In the Moors at Foyles Bookshop in Cabot Circus, Bristol. at 6pm on the 12th September. Praise has been pouring in for In the Moors from reviewers. […]
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OCA Creative Writing award winner Karen Gunning
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date OCA tutor Liz Cashdan reports on Karen’s winning story. Karen was Liz’s student. It’s great that Karen Gunning has won the OCA annual competition prize for Creative Writing for her story “The Big 4-0”. Her story […]
Read MoreTwo textiles study visits coming up!
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Two trips have been organised to the Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh and Salts Mill in West Yorkshire for Saturday 7th September and Saturday 26th October respectively. As part of the International Edinburgh Festival the Dovecot Studios […]
Read MoreFantastic Paper exhibition study visit at the Saatchi Gallery
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This study visit, on Friday 27 September, starting at 11am, represents almost the last chance to see two of the most interesting exhibitions of contemporary art in London this year. ‘Paper’ comprises the work of 40 […]
Read MoreAge-old crafts become next generation technology tools
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I have recently returned from a packed, 5 day eTextiles Summer Camp hosted by the Palliard Centre d’Art Contemporain & Residence d’Artists, France and organised by eTextile practitioners, Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson from Kobakant studio, […]
Read MoreOCA students take an early Barthes in Manchester
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. >DigIt, the Manchester International Festival exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery that OCA students visited on the 18 July, is the sixtieth incarnation in one shape or another of an idea that had originally been devised in […]
Read MoreIconic Combs
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. OCA art history tutor Julia Biggs reports for OCA from Cambridge: ‘If you get the chance this summer, I would recommend a visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (MAA) in […]
Read MorePhotography and Nostalgia
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The two go hand in hand. As soon as a photograph is taken the moment becomes a thing of the past, frozen in time for us to ‘remember’. Looking back, sentimentalising a captured memory and the […]
Read MoreLaura Knight and the BP Portrait Award 2013
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This summer there are two exhibitions of portrait painting at the National Portrait Gallery – the BP Portrait Award 2013 and a long awaited exhibition of the work of Laura Knight. Elected as only the second […]
Read MoreJoe Clark – Man of Action
This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. I was entranced recently by a little book that came through as part of a final assignment for drawing. I‘ve blogged about Joe’s work before as we have had an interesting discussion over the course of […]
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