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What is your tutor up to? Jim Cowan
Posted: 19/06/19 09:50 |
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All over Britain art students of all ages are setting up end of year shows. From primary school to adult education, from higher education to post graduate, artworks are filling up boards for family and friends to view and assessors to scrutinise. Open House studio exhibitions are a particularly popular way to show your work to the general public and this year I have signed up for the Richmond ARThouse Open Studio event.
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Study event: OCA North
Posted: 07/06/19 03:43 |
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Join the next meeting of OCA North at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester on the 15 June with OCA tutor Rachel Forster.
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Study event: OCA East of England
Posted: 05/06/19 09:40 |
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Come and join us for a talk about “The Influence of Curation on the Creative Arts” with OCA tutor Andrea Norrington on Saturday 27 July.
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Study event review: OCA East of England
Posted: 28/05/19 09:01 |
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The session focused around making a mini-concertina book and each student successfully made their book. In the session, students were shown how to cover hard backed covers and hopefully gained some useful tips on how to glue cover materials and on the assembly of books.
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Study event: OCA Midlands
Posted: 27/05/19 09:17 |
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Join OCA Midlands Photography students for a day with artist Stephen Burke on Saturday 22 June at Blast Festival of Photography in the West Midlands.
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What’s your tutor up to? Adam Thompson
Posted: 23/05/19 11:54 |
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Conversations amongst friends evolved into artworks, artworks resonate conversation, new knowledge and understanding, things I find to be at the core of art practice.
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Study event review: Thinking through art
Posted: 22/05/19 11:05 |
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Having Emma and the students talk around my project, helped me consider it from other viewpoints and look at other options. This has greatly helped me to think about what I’m doing for the project and will inform the direction this will take through the rest of the degree.
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The Making of Books. Part 2.
Posted: 21/05/19 09:43 |
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Making individual page layouts is an essential part of the book planning process. Play around with the sequencing of images. This stage can take longer than you imagine. It is good to spend time with various versions of your book before completing it.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 2.
Posted: 20/05/19 09:12 |
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These events are part of a program of Art & Environment visits taking the context of climate change as a backdrop for explorations of art, design and ecology, environment and nature.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 1.
Posted: 15/05/19 09:13 |
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In our discussion about trial and error and finding the right working conditions to be able to experiment as part of the creative process, OCA student Bernadette summed it up nicely, “Lets set out to make loads of mistakes.”
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