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Relief printing at home – hints and tips thumb

Relief printing at home – hints and tips

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   For those of you that don’t know me, in addition to being an OCA tutor, I am a practicing printmaker. I have a Masters degree in Printmaking, I have worked in the print industry as well […]

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Crowdfunding to prepare for OCA's Fine Art MA thumb

Crowdfunding to prepare for OCA's Fine Art MA

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA student Judith Farr, who lives in Northern Spain, is joining OCA’s MA Fine Art in September. She has come up with a clever plan to get her studio in a fit state to work in […]

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Becoming A Successful Illustrator

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA is delighted that Jo Davies, Associate Professor in Illustration, and OCA tutor, has a new book, Becoming A Successful Illustrator launched at the end of this week. Co-authored with Derek Brazell, project manager of the AOI […]

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The giraffe in the room… thumb

The giraffe in the room…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   I am grateful to tutor Derek Trillo for drawing my attention to this great lighting assignment from Art of Photography student Tim Dunk. In addition to some fabulous images Tim shared some of the detail of […]

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Caulfield & Hume visit

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is OCA tutor and art guide Gerald Deslandes with a happy band of OCA students outside Tate Britain, where he ran a study visit to see the Caulfield and Hume exhibition the other day. ‘Patrick […]

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"This should be in Tate Modern not The Photographers' Gallery." thumb

"This should be in Tate Modern not The Photographers' Gallery."

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Is it simply a case of photography vs art at Deutsche Börse? I think it would be a fair generalisation to say that the newer you are to OCA the more difficult it is to grasp what […]

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What is drawing?

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   I wondered what would happen if I asked OCA art tutors this question. It might sound like a simple thing to ask, but the answers suggest drawing is anything but simple….. Drawing and MA tutor Angela […]

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Photography is in a good place / Photography Matters thumb

Photography is in a good place / Photography Matters

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   I just sent out a newsletter.  Terrifying experience.  Almost as scary as feeding the ducks with my kids. It is terrifying because it really matters to me.  (Not the ducks, then I just fear for my […]

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Arty Fraudsters

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The ‘Great Gatsby’ was a fraud. All his friends and acquaintances knew it and yet their admiration of the environment in which prosperity and high living, jazz, underworld criminality and deception was an essential component remained […]

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Blog of the week: Lucy Bridges thumb

Blog of the week: Lucy Bridges

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   It has been a few weeks since we have had a ‘blog of the week’. We have been busy preparing for assessment and planning for the next academic year which starts in September. Students who are […]

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