Bonne Année!. Here is my 2012 New Year Quiz! (I haven’t pulled any crackers this year, so you’ll have to indulge me…) Q: From the images included in this article, choose which is a) Art b) Vandalism Did you guess right?! Check out the answers below! A few years ago, there was a new...
Kerguéhennec. It’s taken me three weeks to be able to say it. Now ‘la tempête’ has passed, the sky is a sullen unbroken pewter and I should be shopping for chocolate santas… What better time to check out this hidden gem of contemporary sculpture in the heart of southern Brittany. I’m beginning to realize...
Love it? Hate it? As a designer, you can’t avoid it. Indeed, you wouldn’t want to – your love affair with typography will prove to be one of the most enduring and intense. Sounds dramatic? Perhaps, but as any aspiring graphic designer will tell you, typography is IMMERSIVE. There are a few key dates...
What gives wood it’s colour? Is craft ever Art, and is Art crafted? These are the questions that come to me after attending the opening of Red, Black Other, a collection of works by sculptor David Nash at Mostyn Gallery this week. Red, Black, Other is ‘the first exhibition to make an assessment of...
One of Britain’s foremost landscape painters, Peter Prendergast’s work has recently been collated into a website. http://www.prendergast.co This site, managed by his family, gives an insight not only into the iconoclastic quarry paintings for which Prendergast is renowned, but also into previously-unseen work. OCA tutor Jane Parry reflects on the work of this consummate...
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