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Yorkshire Landscapes are the theme of our next art study visit and practical workshop. Landscape artist Stephen Court will be leading his highly popular Monoprint workshop at York Art Gallery on the 21st May. The workshop will start with an introduction to David Hockney’s largest landscape work ‘Bigger Trees Near Water’, which is enjoying its […]
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‘Mire’ is the visual outcome of a three year research art/science project by artist and Open College of the Arts Tutor, Liz Douglas. She has been researching diatoms found in pools at Murder Moss, one of the Whitlaw Mosses in the Scottish Borders. Whitlaw Mosses are a National Nature Reserve, a site of special scientific […]
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The rallying call of Spero raised questions for me and the OCA students who came to the Nancy Spero exhibition. Spero confronts in her installation Maypole Take No Prisoners II which is made from steel, silk, wood, nylon filament, handprint on aluminium. It’s composed of hand-printed severed heads with protruding tongues attached to the maypole […]
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Friday next week, ie 15 April, sees the opportunity to join Jose Navarro in a study visit to this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Prize Exhibition and to the exhibition of London Street Photography at the Museum of London. It is a full day running from 11 am to 4pm and we know it is short […]
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Last Saturday afternoon a small group gathered in front of the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park. After a brief exchange of information –how far we had travelled, our connection with the OCA, what courses everyone was on – we were straight in. We were here on a mission — to respond to Nancy Spero’s life […]
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The designer Ken Garland published his first things first Manifesto in London in 1964 and with it he challenged a generation of visual communicators to rethink their role as designers and to do something more useful with their creative talents than simply create commercial advertising for cat food, stomach powder and aftershave lotion. In 2000 […]
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OCA painting and printmaking tutor James Willis on his new exhibition and experience of India…. My trip to India was made several years ago. During a hectic tour of Agra, Jaipur and Delhi I managed to sketch all the time and even make a few watercolour studies in a sketchbook. By the end of this […]
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The latest OCA study trip was to the National Media Museum to listen to Greg Hobson, the museum’s photography curator in conversation with JH Engstrom, one of two photographers behind the Museum’s current exhibition From Back Home. The event had been previously billed as featuring both photographers, but Anders Petersen was unwell and had been […]
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After a week that included several days at Focus on Imagining, a photography assessment exercise, a day of videoing and an evening with a rather pleasant bottle of Rioja, Jose and I made a rather tired spectacle as we picked our way through the barricades awaiting the Lib Dem spring conference to make our way […]
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Last week I joined 12 students who attended Alan Whetton’s photography study visit to Bradford. For me the highlight of the afternoon was the curator talk about From Back Home, the work of Anders Petersen and JH Engström their joint project to photograph the Värmland, the central western area of Sweden from which they both […]
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