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Sheffielders love or loathe it, but Council workers must have a sentimental streak, since some dramatic graffiti has remained in place (for years) on a link bridge at a precarious height on Sheffield’s iconic example of brutalist 60’s architecture, Park Hills Flats, which sits resplendent above the city’s railway station. In fact recently the graffiti, […]
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A new OCA Textiles course at level 2 (HE 5) was launched this week. I think it’s the most exciting course in the OCA textiles degree pathway suite, since it challenges students in all sorts of ways, both practically and philosophically. Called Contemporary Textiles, the course focuses on tactile and visual design ideas and a […]
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Introducing our new textiles blogger, OCA tutor Trisha Goodwin. Trisha has already produced one interesting post, with the striking image of an embroidered rusty car door in it. Now she tells us more about her life and her work. ‘My route to becoming a textile artist/designer/tutor was not an obvious one, which I feel gives […]
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There is a fascinating discussion running in the OCA student site prompted by student Brian Lavery. Brian had the enterprise to email Seattle based artist Chris Jordan and Chris responded. In case the name isn’t familiar to you the video above is a trailer for a film which is his current project and his website […]
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One of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, Peter Prendergast’s work has recently been collated into a website. http://www.prendergast.co This site, managed by his family, gives an insight not only into the iconoclastic quarry paintings for which Prendergast is renowned, but also into previously-unseen work. OCA tutor Jane Parry reflects on the work of this consummate landscape […]
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The sculpture exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea is the latest exhibition made up of a mix of old and young sculptors, making their anarchic presence felt in the space that was once an army barracks. There are works by David Altmejd, John Baldessari and Rebecca Warren to name but a few. In the […]
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Certain terms are almost guaranteed to cause a reaction in the OCA student forums and in that list ‘Post-Modernism’ is pretty near the top. So the fact that an exhibition this autumn at the V&A asks ‘What does Postmodernism mean, and where did it come from?’ makes it an ideal topic for a study visit. […]
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Lucian Freud died in July 2011, aged 88, (see BBC news report which contains an interview with Sue Tilly, one of his best know sitters.) His death prompted renewed discussion about the price raised on one of his most famous paintings: Tilly the benefits supervisor, which broke the record for the highest price paid for […]
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Although Cy was delightfully good company and amusing, you were always aware you were in the presence of greatness.” So says Tate Curator Nicholas Cullinan in the wake of Twombly’s death. ‘There really wasn’t anyone else quite like Cy Twombly, either in art or life. His paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs are like the man: […]
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OCA student Emil Nemecek shares his visual diary, interest in Czech graphic design and some of the challenges of studying graphic design in a second language.
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