Aspirations
Posted: 10/01/17 01:56 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Les Monaghan on the 11 February at Stockport Art Gallery.
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Are you ready for the work of Monica Bonvicini?
Posted: 03/01/17 09:24 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Emma Drye on the 21 January in Gateshead.
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William Kentridge: Thick Time
Posted: 22/12/16 12:13 | 1 Comments
If you can see any London exhibition over the holidays make it this one.
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Difficulty and accessibility
Posted: 20/12/16 09:19 | 9 Comments
As I left the exhibition I passed an advert screen headed Mindfulness suggesting viewers should attend evening sessions to find out how art can “calm body and mind.” What! I want art, whether it’s visual or written to stimulate body and mind, not calm it.
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In conversation with: Angela Fraleigh
Posted: 12/12/16 09:20 | 2 Comments
My work is about how meaning gets made. I’m interested in how narratives become dominant, how power structures evolve, and what roles pop culture, literature, and art history play into this. From early on I’ve collapsed what I see out there with what I’ve created internally — an overlapping of cultural and personal narratives. I try to question how those cultural narratives are structured and unfolded, and how they shape our experiences.
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William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines
Posted: 02/12/16 09:03 | 2 Comments
Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh on the 14 January.
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Study visit review: Textiles in Manchester
Posted: 30/11/16 09:50 | 1 Comments
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of doing a textiles study visit to Manchester. I had arranged for the students to see two quite different but related exhibitions.
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Night Soil
Posted: 22/11/16 09:28 | 7 Comments
Male mermaids appear in baths; a stack of brightly painted bodies make a human pyramid on a New York rooftop; a woman dressed only in tree branches and face paint hugs a tree. Welcome to the world of Melanie Bonajo.
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Favouring the bold
Posted: 18/11/16 09:07 | 4 Comments
Abstraction appeared to be taken at face value and enjoyed, rather than seen as evidence of under developed motor skills. As an assessor of undergraduates I felt that I would have selected the same work myself and so I was drawn to look at the assessment criteria used by the panel.
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Study Visit: Gateshead
Posted: 07/11/16 12:30 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Emma Drye on the 19 November at the Workplace Gallery, Gateshead. We will view This Is it, Isn’t It? an exploration of ideas of self-awareness, self-reflexivity and self-doubt as a core of artists’ practice.
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