SHOWCASE 24 – 28 October 2018
Posted: 19/10/18 10:24 | 3 Comments
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I’m Still Here: 2018 Koestler Awards exhibition
Posted: 16/09/18 09:22 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Jayne Taylor on Sunday 21 October for a thought-provoking visit to the annual Koestler Trust exhibition at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
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Confessions of an art student: Sustaining practice
Posted: 02/08/18 09:18 | 9 Comments
And when someone in the future asks you to talk about sustaining your practice, you are OBVIOUSLY going to say YES, not just because you have anxiety issues about letting people down… but because you have made so much damn work you have no space in your house anymore: that is ‘sustained as hell!’
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Study visit review: 2018 RCA Textiles summer show
Posted: 01/08/18 09:13 | 4 Comments
The 2018 MA Textiles summer show at the Royal College of Art was a heady mix of product, experimentation and conceptual thinking. Having curated the show I took the opportunity to invite OCA students to view the work. The aim was to discuss the diversity in order to question the definition of the term ‘textiles’. 15 OCA students attended on a sunny summer Sunday to explore the galleries before meeting for a very lively discussion.
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Exchanges: Dialogues, Hesitation & Creation
Posted: 30/07/18 09:29 | 2 Comments
The concept was simple, every month you were asked to submit work in progress for critique to a private online blog platform, one week later you would receive a response from another residency participant. Often the work was unresolved, posing further questions, expressing frustration at lack of progress but the deadline made the work happen. During this period, I was able to maintain a conversation about the ongoing work I was creating within my immediate environment – such trains of thought are not easy to sustain when you’re at home looking after small children and this was the beauty in the simplicity of this approach.
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 23: Diana Ali
Posted: 20/07/18 09:24 | 0 Comments
OCA tutor, Curator and Visual Artist, Diana Ali in collaboration with Santa Ana College Art Gallery and Director, Phil Marquez, is pleased to present the exhibition ‘Loss & Lucidity’ an exhibition of contemporary artwork investigating the misplaced, the missed and the mended.
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 21: Moira Lovell and Les Monaghan
Posted: 11/07/18 02:07 | 0 Comments
OCA tutors Moira Lovell and Les Monaghan have work in Northern Light 2018, a group show at Yorkshire Artspace, Persistence Works, Sheffield.
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Exhibition review: Great Exhibition of the North. Part 2
Posted: 05/07/18 09:54 | 2 Comments
Yesterday, I blogged about my visit to Great Exhibition of the North at Baltic. I got as far as the ground floor and ran out of space. This morning, I woke up wanting to tell you more… Moving around Baltic, I enjoyed the playful speaking sculptural faces built into the internal walls by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan. I also took […]
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Exhibition review: Great Exhibition of the North. Part 1
Posted: 04/07/18 09:46 | 0 Comments
This post is to tell you about some of the art and exhibitions you can see for free, summer-long across Newcastle-Gateshead as part of the Great Exhibition of the North, ‘in celebration of the North of England’s pioneering spirit.’
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Aftermath & Shape of Light
Posted: 29/06/18 09:17 | 0 Comments
Aftermath explores the response of artists from 1918 -1940. While some wanted to return to more traditional forms of representation, others were committed to experimentation and to criticising the unequal society which they believed had caused the war.
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