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Presentation – Anne Giddings

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor and assessor Keith Roberts looks at the work of photography student Anne Giddings. Keith particularly focuses on the presentation of the work for assessment.

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Student work uncovered: a painting by Rachel Ashby

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor and assessor Emma Drye takes a close look at a single painting by level one student Rachel Ashby. Don’t miss what Emma has to say. She gets under the skin of the painting and […]

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Student Work uncovered: Sue Elliott

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. Here is OCA tutor and assessor Jim Unsworth looking at some excellent figure drawings by OCA student Sue Elliott. […]

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Student work uncovered: Margaret O'Brien

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA tutor and assessor Richard Liley examines Margaret O’Brien’s work, and picks out her sketchbooks for special attention.

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Siegfried Ip

Here’s photography tutor and assessor Les Monaghan talking about Siegfrield’s innovative approach

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What makes a great portrait?

I had been asking myself this question when this image arrived in my inbox like a lightning bolt out of the blue.

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Peter Mansell

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Student work uncovered – Peter Mansell from Open College of the Arts on Vimeo. Jesse Alexander and Sharon Boothroyd talk about Peter Mansell’s work for Photography 2:Landscape. In the video they refer to the work of […]

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Blog of the week – Paul Griffiths

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Paul has recently written a review of a visit he made to an exhibition of prints held at Oriel Wrecsam (Wrexham) through October and November 2012 on his OCA learning blog. You can see the article […]

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"London is no longer the capital. Sorry for any inconvenience."

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Perhaps the title of this blog post is a little sensational (got to do what you can to get people’s attention these days, though), but it was an interesting starting point for Colin Archibald’s Photography 3: […]

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needles and pins

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   In response to the request, on my last blog, for more insight into the work of level 3 painting students, I would like to talk a little about student Jane Hordern and her work, which combines […]

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