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The sun was shining stronger than ever on the first week of Rencontres. Those who have visited Europe’s most influential photo festival before will notice several changes. This year brings new venues, new categories, and new awards…
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This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date. The exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production features work produced by 250 different graphic designers, made since the millennium. It charts a number of contemporary strands from the cultures of design-led publishing, the renaissance of type design, […]
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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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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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Eileen Cooper is a painter and printmaker and Head of the Printmaking at the Royal Academy Schools. Her unique style is one that penetrates the mind and stays with you long after you have visited an exhibition of her work. See life laid bare as we view naked women neither to skinny or to fat […]
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A recent piece in the magazine Frieze about the concerns contemporary artists have caught my attention, and made me wonder what preoccupies those OCA students who are striving to be better artists? The article contends that artists’ main preoccupations are to have the space in order to do whatever comes next. But then, what does […]
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