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John Virtue, in this short video that was shown on the BBC’s Culture Show, gives us an insight into what it’s like to make an extended body of work centred on a location and in relation to works of art. He moves easily from talking about the iconography with which he’s working, the surface […]
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Artists don’t make mistakes…
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Bryan Eccleshall talks to student Sarah Youseman
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There’s an exercise in a few OCA art courses that holds within it all sorts of possibilities, but is often treated in a cursory manner. Students are asked to transfer a simple line drawing to a larger sheet using a grid. You know the drill, I’m sure. A grid is laid over a source drawing […]
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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is one of the most recognisable twentieth century paintings. It’s an atmospheric picture of an all-night diner with three customers and a worker. What might we learn by absorbing a few facts and then looking hard at the work? What might be revealed by writing these thoughts down? A little context: […]
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