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Colonel Soleil’s Boys, 2010 © Richard Mosse. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY On Friday 13 April we will be returning to the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool for what promises to be a stimulating study visit. Infra is the first solo exhibition in the UK by photographer Richard Mosse. Mosse’s images […]
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This exhibition visited by a group of OCA students and tutors recently challenged many traditional perspectives of lace and presented a wide interpretation of the theme by contemporary textile practitioners. My overwhelming first impression of the exhibition was the sheer scale of some of the work on display; from Atelier Manferdini’s Inverted Crystal Cathedral, (see […]
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We had a lively visit to the Hockney exhibition last week with OCA tutors David Winning and Tony Hogan. The tutors didn’t share the same views on Hockney’s work, which added to the debate afterwards as we huddled together in the Royal Academy forecourt. All this added to the quality of the reflections students had […]
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Warsaw, Poland. February 2005. © Mark Power / Magnum Photos A real visual treat of a study visit on Saturday 17 March in Bradford. Starting at 1pm we will visit two galleries. First of all, the Impressions Gallery where we will see Magnum photographer Mark Power’s work The Sound of Two Songs, a project which […]
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The image above by Zarina Bhimji is called Bapa Closed His Heart, It Was Over. Reproduced above or on half a page in the excellent catalogue of the current Bhimji show at the Whitechapel Gallery is has a certain impact. However for those of us who attended the study day at the gallery yesterday I […]
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There will be a textiles study visit to the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester on 14 April starting at 11 am. Textiles have formed part of the Whitworth’s collection since the gallery opened in 1890. Objects in the collection date from the 3rd century AD to the present day and reflect the social function of textiles […]
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The Royal Photographic Society International Print Exhibition is now in its 154th edition. The exhibition showcases a wide variety of established, emerging and amateur photography and is the longest standing exhibition of its kind in the world. The exhibition is at the Barnsley Civic Gallery which is just down the road from the OCA head […]
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Saturday saw a group of students at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. The gallery was closed to the public and Photography Curator Andrew Conroy had joined us to talk about Si Barber‘s body of work ‘The Big Society‘ and how the exhibition had been hung. The visit presented an excellent opportunity to discuss the work […]
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The much publicized Hockney exhibition: A Bigger Picture, has arrived and we couldn’t let it go without having a study day. Since it will be so popular we have chosen to visit it during the week. The visit is planned for Tuesday 14 February, starting at 11am. Joining us on the trip will be an […]
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My students always find it strange, but amusing that their EFL teacher also studies, and have to ‘take tests’. Of course, for the teenagers, it is always impossible to understand that their teacher ‘wants to study’. Living, working and studying in China of course has it’s ups and downs, and as I was brainstorming what […]
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