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Sculpture
Foundation Material and Making: Approaches to Sculpture
Posted: 06/06/24 12:59 |
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Since its launch in 2021, our Foundation Material and Making: Approaches to Sculpture course has welcomed a diverse range of students who have expanded their creative ideas. The course introduces various key creative methods and approaches to making, encouraging students to explore and respond to materials and objects in their local environment in imaginative ways.
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W.W.B.R.D*
Posted: 10/12/18 12:37 |
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It’s something to take your time over, both in appreciating it, and developing your own art. Because, Fine Art is experimentation, how far can you push something, how far can you take it until it meets what you want it to do. It’s only through experimentation and trying new things and combinations that you’ll get there.
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Study visit to Canary Wharf art & sculpture trail
Posted: 25/07/18 09:36 |
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Join OCA’s Gerald Deslandes on the 15 September in London.
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What is your tutor up to? Chapter 22: Pauline Rose
Posted: 13/07/18 09:35 |
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OCA tutor Pauline Rose has recently signed a contract with Liverpool University Press for her book entitled ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’. The book will be published in 2020.
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Looking at artists: Paper
Posted: 23/11/17 09:31 |
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I usually start working with paper as a medium for drawing and painting, to create collages, folding it to make 3D models… We may live in a digital world, but for creatives using paper has by no means diminished. Folded into origami and kirigami, laser-cut, layered and made into sculptures, artists can transform a humble sheet of old tree into a spectacular artwork.
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A rare category of objects
Posted: 22/08/17 09:48 |
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Perhaps this is proof, if proof were needed, of the fact that contemporary art continues to reflect the times in which it is made.
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