Jim Smith is a student on People and Place, here is an extract from his learning log on exhibitions: ‘Looking in books or online at the work of other photographers, by ourselves and without discussion with others is learning that is initiated in the visual mode rather than audio or kinaesthetic. To make an...
OCA photography student Simon Taylor has an exhibition of his work at the Bath cafe Boston Tea Party starting this Saturday 9 July. Simon says ‘New York can give you visual indigestion, there is the conveyor belt of people passing you by, the flickering hypnotic advertisements and the huge buildings searching like trees in...
Saturday saw a group of students join Jose Navarro and Clive White for a study visit to the V&A exhibition ‘Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography’. I was personally keen to visit the exhibition having lost sight of what was happening with photography in South Africa and intrigued by the masses of content...
The photograph above is from an exhibition of work by OCA photography student Omar Camilleri. I say exhibition, although it probably more correct to call the work an installation. Either way, it shows Omar’s work to great effect, taking the Maltese ‘pavaljuni‘ form hanging over the heads of passers by in Merchant Street in...
I am grateful to tutor Alan Byrne for drawing Sarah Cowan’s work to my attention. Sarah’s blog systematically records her working through the projects in Art of Photography and Sarah’s progress is clearly evident in the final project from which this shot of Venice is taken. It is actually quite difficult in locations which...
At the start of our new academic year on 1 July the OCA will be increasing its fees to reflect the increase in costs we have experienced over the last 12 months. As an educational charity the OCA trustees have kept the level 1 fee increase to the absolute minimum to be consistent with...
To my knowledge this is the first time we have featured a student twice for work completed for one course, but we were so taken by James Payne‘s final assignment for Art of Photography we thought it was worth sharing more widely. The assignment calls for the student to apply techniques and illustration and...
It is always a pleasure to meet OCA students, but Saturday proved even more pleasurable thanks to an informative tour through the Paul Graham show provided by Michael Lowton of the Whitechapel Gallery. I would strongly urge photography students who get the chance to visit this exhibition as Graham’s work has a far greater...
I am very pleased that we had a good level of voting in the elections for the first president of the OCA Students’ Association. In total 252 votes were cast by the deadline on Friday and the result is as follows: Stan Dickinson 141 Sarah Gallear 111 I would like to thank both Stan...
What is the point of art? Or perhaps from my perspective, what is the point of art education? According to Lord Browne ‘A degree is of benefit both to the holder, through higher levels of social contribution and higher lifetime earnings, and to the nation, through higher economic growth rates and the improved health...
As we prepare our plans for the next academic year for discussion with our Trustees, we can announce one commitment. We have been very pleased with the take up of the Illustration and Graphic Design courses which were introduced in 2010. So pleased, we are now committed to developing new degrees in Visual Communication....
I’m extremely grateful to tutor Jane Parry for drawing my attention to the learning log of Urszula Anna Jakubowicz (Ula) who is currently studying Graphic Design as part of her BA(Hons) Creative Arts. As Ula is based on Alderney I doubt that she will be attending a study day anytime soon, but it is...
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