Keep plugging away
Posted: 12/02/14 03:53 | 14 Comments
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Penni Redding (part 2)
Posted: 22/01/14 08:19 | 8 Comments
More sumptuous textiles work from Penni
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Redefining Handmade
Posted: 21/01/14 01:40 | 3 Comments
‘…Stand strong when considering the marketing of your own work and take pride in its provenance…’
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Scotland Study Visit: Louise Bourgeois
Posted: 08/01/14 02:11 | 4 Comments
On Saturday 22 February students are invited to attend a study visit to view and discuss a major presentation of works by the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Bourgeois was one of the most influential and prolific artists of her time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she […]
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Pop Art Design
Posted: 08/01/14 11:24 | 0 Comments
The Barbican Art Gallery is now showing an exhibition entitled Pop Art Design which displays not only the art of the period but the furniture, graphic design, fashion and architecture it influenced. Whereas the modern movement in its reductive search for purity removed decoration, the hedonistic arrival of Pop Art at the end the austerity […]
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Penni Redding
Posted: 20/12/13 10:14 | 5 Comments
I recently mentioned to Textiles Curriculum Leader Sarah Taylor that we needed to see more textiles student work on WeAreOCA. ‘Penni Redding!’ she replied ‘I have just seen some of her work. Get hold of it and put it on the blog.’ So here we are and the minute I opened the box from Penni, […]
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Cruelty
Posted: 17/12/13 09:41 | 3 Comments
Following last week’s announcement on how to submit work for inclusion in WeAreOCA, students have started to get in touch with excellent work. It was always going to be difficult to decide who or what to feature first, but I have gone for One Hundred and Thirteen by textiles student Katie Taylor. Katie’s work is […]
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Come up and see us…
Posted: 14/11/13 11:42 | 23 Comments
A very pleasant surprise this week was to receive a copy of Pete Davies’ latest book ‘Three Pairs of Dead Mans Pants’. The book comprises three of Pete’s recent projects, one of which is loosely based around life as observed by Pete in Plymouth. The images are coupled with overheard conversations from his local Post […]
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All that is solid melts into air…
Posted: 15/10/13 01:00 | 1 Comments
A gem of a study visit in Manchester on Saturday 23 November. Following his recent exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Turner prize-winner Jeremy Deller has curated a show that takes a personal look at the impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture. His selection ranges from contemporary music, film and photography with a […]
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