Picasso 1932 – Love, fame, tragedy
Posted: 01/05/18 09:00 | 1 Comments
Join OCA’s Gerald Deslandes on the 23 June at Tate Modern.
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 15: Angela Rogers
Posted: 27/04/18 09:36 | 1 Comments
Congratulations also to OCA’s Angela Rogers who is in an upcoming exhibition ‘You and I are discontinuous beings’ – an exhibition to celebrate the publication and launch of ‘Collective and Collaborative Drawing on Contemporary Practice: Drawing Conversations’ which OCA’s Kimberley Foster is also a part of.
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Place, surface, mapping, recording…
Posted: 26/04/18 09:22 | 5 Comments
I spend time walking in these places, talking to people who I meet along the way, researching the histories, stories, geology, geographies. My aim is to try to capture and distil some of the unique visual qualities of each place through a record of my time spent there. I think of my work as alternative ‘maps’ of a place or ‘recordings’.
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Presenting student work: Ruth Venables yarn collection for A Textiles Vocabulary
Posted: 25/04/18 09:45 | 1 Comments
What makes this particular student’s yarns so exciting is that she has clearly been inspired and demonstrates so well that she has been stimulated by her source material. Whether this is her secondary research in the form of a medieval artwork or her primary research in the colour studies of glass vessels, there are clear links and reference points between her work and its creative source.
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Student led study day: Trace2018
Posted: 24/04/18 09:44 | 0 Comments
OCA students Jeremy Scott and Sarah Youseman are holding their graduation show in June. Students of all levels are invited to the gallery to look at the show and meet the artists on Saturday 9 June who will answer questions on what it means to work at Level 3 and curate a joint exhibition.
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Cross-discipline drawing workshop
Posted: 17/04/18 09:09 | 11 Comments
I began the morning asking students what they thought drawing could be beyond the traditional skills they might have learnt. Some keywords emerged that acted as a guide for the exercises, including drawing as invention, play, process, action, memory, language, non-art, materials and generative.
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 14: Kimberley Foster
Posted: 16/04/18 09:43 | 0 Comments
OCA’s Kimberley Foster has an upcoming exhibition ‘You and I are discontinuous beings’ – an exhibition to celebrate the publication and launch of ‘Collective and Collaborative Drawing on Contemporary Practice: Drawing Conversations’ in which Kimberley has written a chapter.
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In progress
Posted: 12/04/18 05:17 | 2 Comments
“I am naming and shaming myself as I am rather far behind but rather than give up I am using this post to both show what I’ve been up to and to spur myself on and anyone else struggling with projects to keep at it!”
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 13: Matt White
Posted: 11/04/18 09:12 | 0 Comments
OCA Moving Image Programme Leader and tutor, Matt White, is delighted to announce that the premiere of his latest film, The Tick and The Bomb will take place at the Wales International Documentary Film Festival on the 17 April, 2018.
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Thresholds
Posted: 06/04/18 09:32 | 0 Comments
Join OCA tutor Jayne Taylor on this study visit to Thresholds—British artist Mat Collishaw’s virtual reality restaging of the world’s first major photography exhibition—at the Science & Media Museum in Bradford on Saturday 5 May.
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