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The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason 1945 to Present thumb

The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason 1945 to Present

Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo on the 14 May in Edinburgh. The Scottish Endarkenment explores a wide range of disturbing and provocative topics, from ever-escalating international conflict, social inequality and unrest, gender identity and sexual prejudice – all fired by the dialectical struggles within the Scottish psyche between good and evil, self and the Other.

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Ian McKeever talks about painting thumb

Ian McKeever talks about painting

In choosing to make a painting you are choosing to use paint. That maybe a tautology but I just want to start with it as I want to emphasise the significance of that material. That choice, the significance of that material, immediately becomes part of your subject matter.

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Study Visit: Bridget Riley and Abstraction by Women Artists thumb

Study Visit: Bridget Riley and Abstraction by Women Artists

Join OCA tutor Bryan Eccleshall on the 28 May at Graves Gallery in Sheffield. We will see a set of Bridget Riley paintings from a period during which she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale.

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London Print Fair

Join OCA tutor Clare Wilson on the 8 May and the RA for the London Original Print Fair. The London Original Print Fair brings together 50 print specialists from across the globe in London’s favourite boutique art fair. Works of art for sale span 500 years of printmaking: from old and modern master prints to the latest editions by today’s leading artists.

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Hilma af Klint & drawing at the V&A thumb

Hilma af Klint & drawing at the V&A

Join OCA tutor Angela Rogers in London on the 30 April. We will visit Painting the Unseen an exhibition of work from Hilma af Klint at the Serpentine and following lunch we will head to the V&A for some afternoon sketching.

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Photography Matters

Photography Matters is a one-day OCA conference to be held at CAST, Doncaster, South Yorkshire on Saturday 21 May 2016. It seeks to map out areas for discussion in photography’s relationship to the everyday lived experience, visual culture, evolving technology, archiving and history, news media, education at all levels and public perception.

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The British Art Show: Edinburgh

Join OCA tutor Emma Drye in Edinburgh for our second venue visit to the British Art Show on the 9 April

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In search of a three-point plug? thumb

In search of a three-point plug?

What’s not to like about the exhibition, Electronic Superhighway, at the Whitechapel Gallery? Despite the slight frustration of finding that this survey from 1966 – 2016 is laid out in reverse, this is the most impressive exhibition about art and new technology in years.

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Study visit: Drawing as process thumb

Study visit: Drawing as process

Artist Michelle Charles will be hosting a unique study day at the British Museum in London in conjunction with curators from the Department of Prints and Drawings. The workshop will examine the scope of drawing as thinking.

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Transformation

Sometimes it is good to have a deadline so short that there is no time to think, no time to ponder and no time to reverse decisions. Of course I would rather not be in this position very often but, when it does occur, there can be several benefits…

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