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Stage 3 BA (Hons) Painting student Paul McGinty is currently exhibiting at the Adam Smith Heritage Centre in Kirkcaldy. Here, Painting Programme Leader Emma Drye joins him in conversation to find out more about his work and plans.
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Congratulations to our Creative Arts tutor Rachel Smith for being one of five nominated artists in the UK, to be considered for the Women to Watch exhibition series, which will be held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC in 2027.
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Open College of the Arts extends many congratulations to OCA painting tutor Jo Whittle who was one of the final four shortlisted for the John Moores painting Prize 2025 and is currently taking part in the winners exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery.
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As part of my final unit in Stage 3, I staged an exhibition of my major project. Over four weekends in January 2025 I exhibited my work in a building adjacent to my house. Entitled ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’, the exhibition was the curation of a project I conducted in August 2024 when I brought my grandad home to a small coastal town in Norway.
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 23/24 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across seven of our degree programmes.
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The Creative Arts Showcase is now in its third year and is an end of academic year presentation from our students. We thank all our students who chose to participate and for their enthusiasm in putting forward their work this year.
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The Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been curated this year by architect Peter Barber. The work on display shows enormous variety in approaches to spatial model making, and underlines the necessity of using this hands-on physical method of design development as a way of experimenting freely and creatively.
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Join OCA student Sue Parr for her exhibition in Eype Centre for the Arts, nr Bridport on Saturday 29th July 2023 at 11am for an artist talk and live performance.
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I am delighted to launch this exhibition; Explorations in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Technology; at The Best Little Virtual Gallery hosted by Artsteps. As a peer critique group, we have been meeting monthly on Zoom to present and discuss our work and support each other through what is a very long period of study with many ups and downs.
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A small but dedicated group of painters spent a drizzly afternoon in Huddersfield looking at the latest instalment of the Contemporary British Painting Prize, before it moves on to Thames Side Studios in London.
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