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In conversation with: Cheryl Huntbach, part 1 thumb

In conversation with: Cheryl Huntbach, part 1

As part of the #weareoca30 campaign we are having creative conversations with some of our tutors. Watch and listen to OCA tutor and assessor Cheryl Huntbach below answering questions from students in part 1 of her video.

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Drawing a line in space

As part of her Exploring Drawing Media course OCA student Susan Askew is asking for your help in fulfilling her project idea for the exercise to draw a line in a space so that it impacts on the space.

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Study visit: Glasgow International thumb

Study visit: Glasgow International

Glasgow International is Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, taking place over three weeks every two years across the city of Glasgow. Renowned as a centre for contemporary art, the festival draws on the city’s strengths as a vibrant and distinctive centre of artistic production and display.

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Study visit – John Stezaker – Whitworth Gallery, Manchester thumb

Study visit – John Stezaker – Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

Join OCA BA Photography alumni, John Umney and Stan Dickinson, on a study visit to an exhibition of work by John Stezaker at the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester – 28 April 2018.

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In conversation with: Bryan Eccleshall thumb

In conversation with: Bryan Eccleshall

As part of the #weareoca30 campaign we are having creative conversations with some of our tutors. Watch and listen to OCA tutor and assessor Bryan Eccleshall below speaking about his work and and answering questions from students.

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Study visit: Mark Dion – Theatre of the natural world thumb

Study visit: Mark Dion – Theatre of the natural world

Join OCA tutor Clare Wilson on April 15 at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Mark Dion is an American conceptual artist who makes work in response to the fragility and wonder of the natural world. He travels through rainforests, muddy rivers and rubbish dumps to uncover objects, both natural and man made.

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The big 30 thumb

The big 30

The Guerrilla Girls’ coolly ironic salvo not only challenged the art world powers-that-be, but also called on artists to start agitating for changes. Which brings us back to Michael Young’s original, distinctive, radical and optimistic conception of the OCA as a means of transforming people’s lives, of affecting real purposive change.

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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 8: Bryan Eccleshall thumb

What is your tutor up to? Chapter 8: Bryan Eccleshall

Bryan Eccleshall is delighted to announce that he will be having his first solo London show at the Green Rooms Hotel in March. On display will be around forty of the Digital Rain images that he has produced since autumn 2016.

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