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Artes Mundi
Posted: 26/10/16 12:47 |
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Join OCA tutor Helen Warburton on the 12 November in Cardiff. Artes Mundi is an internationally focused arts organisation that identifies, recognises and supports contemporary visual artists who engage with the human condition, social reality and lived experience.
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If you build it, they will come
Posted: 25/10/16 09:12 |
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A few months ago we blogged about the [(6)] – six alumni photography students who have come together again to create a new body of work. This work shot in Oxford, England and exhibited in Oxford, Canada. To add further interest to an already exciting event the Oxford Riverside Gallery was set up by one of OCA’s MA students Mathew Aldred.
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Rodoulla Anastasiou
Posted: 24/10/16 09:07 |
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OCA tutor and assessor Doug Burton looks at the work of BA (Hons) Painting student Rodoulla Anastasiou. Through her approach to media and observational drawing in her sketchbooks she explores ideas and subjects and the outcomes are imaginative and visually exciting.
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Edgezine – issue 1 aftermath
Posted: 19/10/16 09:11 |
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Collaborating with other OCA students has been a real highlight these past few months. All the hard work has paid off and our first issue of Edge-zine is printed and winging it’s way to various destinations in the UK and overseas.
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In conversation with: Kid Acne
Posted: 14/10/16 09:24 |
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Last week I attended an illustrated talk by musician, illustrator and street artist Kid Acne. This event was part of the Off the Shelf festival in Sheffield and Kid Acne, real name Ed, designed the logo for this year’s festival. We got a snapshot of the last 20 years culmination of work which led to this design.
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The view from here
Posted: 11/10/16 09:12 |
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Join OCA tutor Wendy McMurdo on the 19 November at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The View From Here | Landscape Photography explores the theme of landscape through photographs from the 1840s to the present day. This exhibition brings together a selection of prints that transport the viewer around the world
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Fiona Tracey
Posted: 05/10/16 09:55 |
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OCA tutor and assessor Bryan Eccleshall looks at the work of Fiona Tracey. He examines how she uses mindmaps of images drawn and collated to relate things together.
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Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
Posted: 01/10/16 09:52 |
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Join Dawn Woolley on the 29 October at The Photographer’s Gallery in London.
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Study visit: Jerwood drawing prize
Posted: 29/09/16 09:05 |
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Join OCA tutor Polly Harvey on the 5 November in Bath. Selected from original drawings, the Jerwood Drawing Prize has established a reputation for its commitment to championing excellence, and to promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice.
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In conversation: Bethan Hamilton
Posted: 20/09/16 09:37 |
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“I would say self portraits grant you a lot more freedom than portraits do. When drawing friends I worry about causing offence by focusing on their ‘imperfections’. But it’s those imperfections that make a person who they are. When drawing myself I don’t think twice about depicting every dark shadow, every wrinkle, misplaced hair or roll of fat.”
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