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From Palestrina to open learning …. thumb

From Palestrina to open learning ….

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA is always pleased to receive feedback on students’ learning experiences. Critical feedback is welcome too, because we do want to get things right. In this case, student Kathleen Shortt was so fulsome in her praise […]

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A conversation about the Drawing 2 course thumb

A conversation about the Drawing 2 course

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Emma Drye (course author of drawing 2) in conversation with student Alison Churchill: E:As the author of drawing two it’s great to be able to speak to one of the first students to go through the […]

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Estuary

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA MA Fine Art student James Kowacz reports on a recent visit: I recently visited a new exhibition space in London that I hadn’t visited before at London Docklands which was a pleasant surprise. The Museum […]

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The excellent sketchbooks of level one student Holly Norris thumb

The excellent sketchbooks of level one student Holly Norris

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   On receiving the second assignment from OCA student Holly Norris, one of my Printmaking 1 students, I have decided to showcase her sketchbook as an example of outstanding sketchbook practice. Her sketchbook is small, a little […]

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OCA students gain inspiration at New Designers thumb

OCA students gain inspiration at New Designers

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   New Designers Exhibition. Business Design Centre, Islington, London. Tutors Pat Moloney and Liz Smith recently visited the New Designers exhibition with a group of OCA students. Pat is no stranger to the yearly exhibition: ‘I spend […]

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Picture lending is alive in Leeds thumb

Picture lending is alive in Leeds

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   On a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon, my partner and I took a trip into Leeds. Whilst navigating the crowds, we found ourselves walking in the direction of Leeds Art Gallery and decided to see what […]

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Less is More! thumb

Less is More!

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Assessor Jim Unsworth shows us how to crop a painting to improve it. He mentions artist Milton Avery in his explanation, someone worth looking at, who said of his own work: ‘I always take something out […]

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All is Vanity – Ken Currie at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery thumb

All is Vanity – Ken Currie at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Conscious of the fact that my recent David Batchelor blog was about a show that had just closed, I would like to blog now about a show which has just opened! I went earlier this week […]

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The winner of our student writing competition is…… thumb

The winner of our student writing competition is……

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Chris Arthur reports on our recent creative writing competition. He set the task and judged the work that was submitted. The task was to use this image as a starting point for work. You can also […]

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The promise in Linda Beadle's work thumb

The promise in Linda Beadle's work

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Linda sent me a high standard of work in her portfolio for Print One, Assignment One. Already having completed Textiles One, Linda wrote, “ I have chosen to study An Introduction to Printmaking, as part of […]

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