OCA Creative Writing: Goodbye from your Programme Leader
Posted: 15/08/25 10:53 | 8 Comments
After twelve years as a creative writing tutor, and ten years as course programme leader, I’ll be leaving OCA this month.
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Goodbye and thank you to tutor Ilsa Brittain
Posted: 28/07/22 02:32 | 6 Comments
As Programme Leader for the painting dept, I am pleased to be in conversation this month with artist and tutor Ilsa Brittian. Ilsa has worked for OCA since 2017. Ilsa is leaving us this month to focus her attention on her practice so I am taking the opportunity to have a conversation with her and to celebrate her significant contribution to OCA.
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‘Dealing with the flood’?
Posted: 31/03/21 09:57 | 1 Comments
OCA tutor, Helen Warburton recalls the discussion of image overload, and asks how do artists and designers deal with this now in the midst of a pandemic? During lockdown, I’ve been revisiting a 2013 WeAreOCA blog post that posed a provocative question: how do we deal with the flood of images? The discussion gravitated around […]
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The Art of Invitation – Part 2
Posted: 06/03/21 09:39 | 2 Comments
It is common for an artist to write a statement defining their practice. In my opinion this serves a greater purpose for the artist than for the audience (who, after all, should be free to respond emotionally to an experience rather than being instructed regarding its intention). I have been writing and rewriting my statement […]
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The Art of Invitation – Part 3
Posted: 06/03/21 09:39 | 7 Comments
‘The Gathering’ 2018, repopulating a space in Romania left abandoned since the revolution in 1989 I learnt a lot from my conversations and brief collaboration with the late great Will Alsop. Most notably that not everything has to make sense – actions do not always have to be justified. Play is the beginning of creativity […]
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The Art of Invitation – Part 1
Posted: 05/03/21 09:00 | 1 Comments
‘Beacon’ 2016, Installation on an ancient beacon site where the audience is invited by the light rather than by a selective process. My work is the investigation of pathways, migrations and unplanned encounters. It is only with hindsight that I can understand the rationale behind my creative practice. I call this retrospective research; looking back […]
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