Introducing Emma Powell
Emma is a new Visual Communications tutor at OCA who specialises in printmaking, bookmaking, collage, experimental type and paper-crafts…
Read MoreTo find out more details about the transfer to The Open University see A New Chapter for OCA.
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Skip NavigationEmma is a new Visual Communications tutor at OCA who specialises in printmaking, bookmaking, collage, experimental type and paper-crafts…
Read MoreOCA students and tutors are invited to the launch of tutor Jo Davies’ latest book collaboration…
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Read MoreHannah 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…
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreStephen 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, […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
Read MoreIf 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 […]
Read MoreHere 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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