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Introducing Emma Powell

Emma is a new Visual Communications tutor at OCA who specialises in printmaking, bookmaking, collage, experimental type and paper-crafts…

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Illustration discussion

OCA students and tutors are invited to the launch of tutor Jo Davies’ latest book collaboration…

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Keep plugging away

Jesse has said it before. Bryan has said it…

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Study Visit: Hannah Hoch

Hannah Hoch was a member of Berlin’s Dada movement in the 1920s, and was a driving force in the development of 20th century collage. As this is the first major exhibition of her work in Britain, this study visit is going to be popular…

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Pop Art Design

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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Introducing Stephen Monger

Stephen Monger, OCA Visual Communications Tutor and photographer, reflects on his practice, finding subjects to photograph and on what is contemporary landscape? I recently had a photograph selected for the W-CA Contemporary Landscape Photography Open. The exhibition was held at Worcester Museum and Art Gallery, throughout December, and the selectors were: Paul Seawright, Dan Holdsworth, […]

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Just browsing

I don’t mind admitting that walking into a bookshop or a library can be a visually thrilling experience. Seeing an array of books covers appeals to me as reader and graphic designer. With the dwindling of high street bookshops to online retailers, fewer second hand bookshops and local libraries closing, this experience of seeing a […]

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Washed out?

If you have visited commercial galleries in holiday towns or read how to do books you may justifiably consider watercolour painting as a potentially staid and unfriendly media. From my own teaching and professional experience I think it is often perceived by students as being technically difficult to handle and unforgiving in the hands of […]

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Penny Rowe

Here is the first of about a dozen videos from the November assessment. Here is tutor and assessor Judy Brown talking about the work of illustration student Penny Rowe.

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