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As an OCA tutor I spend a lot of time waiting for parcels to arrive in the post. The small heavy package that arrived last week was not a student assignment but a brand new metal casting of Rockwell 30pt. Like a growing band of typography and letterpress enthusiasts I have recently purchased my own […]
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An OCA student, Delia Hiscock Walker, reports on her day out at Tate Britain with a bunch of other students and the guidance of an OCA art tutor. ‘I have a lingering phrase in my head from this successful and very well organised study day on 2nd July. It’s this : ‘Just paint….’ commented our […]
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The work of OCA Photography tutor Maggy Milner often strays into installation, and you’d wonder, perhaps, whether she is perhaps foremost a conceptual artist when you see the images that make up her latest project. Indeed Maggy herself says she moves fluidly between using lens based and other media. This project sees the use of […]
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We are delighted that one of our art tutors and assessor, Linda Khatir, has been achieving so much success. Check out her work and the various activities she is currently involved in here. In March this year, she was awarded a research fellowship by the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and spent two weeks in […]
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Eileen Adams is a fervent believer in the value of sketchbooks. We were delighted when this sketchbook guru (known for her contribution to Campaign for Drawing) agreed to be filmed talking about sketchbooks and the role of learning logs. I approached her after hearing her keynote speech at a conference all about sketchbooks earlier in […]
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Different jobs create different cycles of activities. For staff, like myself who work at a full time art college the last couple of weeks always feels like working on a till at Christmas and struggling to get the harvest in on time all rolled into one; lots of people needing your attention and too much […]
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Can we be truly uninfluenced by others – even at just four years old? The OCA Fine Art MA cohort have been discussing a story on the BBC website about a four year old who has opened her first art exhibition in New York. MA student Amelia Wilson introduces We Are OCA to the hot […]
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Italian Drawings: Highlights from the Collection (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) The current exhibition at the Fitzwilliam celebrates the very best of the Museum’s collection of Italian Drawings – most of which have never been displayed together until now. Working on the premise that most drawings appeal because of the immediacy of the artist’s expression and the […]
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A recent visit to the stunning Jaume Plensa exhibition at the unique Yorkshire Sculpture Park near OCA HQ in Barnsley got me thinking about the sculptor’s obsession with the head, the head as everyman, the head as a unique individual, the head as an archetype of heads. Plensa’s heads, sitting in the stunning landscape in […]
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The photograph above is from an exhibition of work by OCA photography student Omar Camilleri. I say exhibition, although it probably more correct to call the work an installation. Either way, it shows Omar’s work to great effect, taking the Maltese ‘pavaljuni’ form hanging over the heads of passers by in Merchant Street in Valletta. […]
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