This week we are featuring Nigel Roberson’s learning blog for his Photography 2: Landscape course. It is an exemplary example of a carefully structured reflective learning log, showing clearly how Nigel has developed his work, selecting ideas, rejecting others and drawing on his research reading. Fabulous.
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This is the final post for 2011 from the OCA and if you are subscriber to the Weekender eBulletin you should receive it tomorrow. We will be back in 2012 with more articles, videos of student work, learning blogs and study visits. For now, we leave
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Melanie Dornier is a French student on the Social Documentary course and is based in Suzhou, China. She emailed me about a month ago to say that she had an exhibition of her work on show at the Gallerie Des Cents Pas, Besancon, France. Now unbekn
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There was a lot of exceptional work submitted at the last assessment event in March, but the one piece that could not be ignored was Avril Lewis' level 3 project on the Solent. The finished piece is huge; at something like six by four feet, it is
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Figure Drawing is the theme of our next art study visit and practical workshop. Barnsley Artist and OCA tutor Jane Lazenby will be leading this highly popular workshop at York Art Gallery on the 25th June.
The workshop will start with a tour and i
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Andrew Haydon's coverage of the Arts Funding Cuts was an excellent exploration of what was good, bad and indifferent about them. It made me think that anyone who cares about the arts should be engaged in the debate about arts funding cuts, it may mea
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Tutor Irena Boobyer has her latest exhibition at A La Ronde in Exmouth until 6 March. Called Feathers and Friezes, Irena's papercuts are inspired by the extraordinary interior decoration of the building which was built in the eighteenth century f
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Here at OCA the events team is gearing up for the Focus on Imaging show. Europe's biggest annual imaging show is on at the NEC from 6th -9th March
Focus on Imaging is a great opportunity to get 'hands-on' the latest gear and learn new techniques.
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A new BBC series, Faulks on Fiction (based on Faulks' book, available from the BBC website), starts this Saturday (5th February) at 9pm on BBC2. Sebastian Faulks will be looking at the heroes of the British novel in early works such as Defoe's Ro
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Two new opportunities for OCA students to join photography Course Leaders on study visits.
On 9 February Alan Whetton will be leading an afternoon visit in in Bradford. The afternoon will include visits to two exhibitions at the National Media
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