New Designers is the Graduate show case for Colleges and Universities offering courses in Art and Design throughout the UK. We will be taking a group of OCA students to visit it on Saturday June 29th, meeting at the venue…
On Friday 19 April there will be a study visit to the African Textiles Today exhibition at the British Museum. This promises to be a colourful and thought provoking exhibition that takes a fresh look at the history and continuing…
We’ve just had a visit to the debated Judy Chicago exhibition, at Ben Uri, where there was much discussion about the Jewish and Christian imagery in her work and whether her bright colours, organic shapes and references to the human…
Our new textiles curriculum leader, Sarah Taylor, introduces herself below. We are very pleased to have her join the team. ‘My interests lie in the exploration of light within cloth. Since the mid-1990s I have specialised in light-emitting material exploiting…
Charlotte Grierson is a textile artist and designer who specialises in weaving. Last November, we visited her in her studio at Cockpit Arts in Deptford. Her response to the question “Why weaving?” was unexpected. It apparently wasn’t the touchy-feely aspect…
On the 7 March we will be taking a group of OCA students (very relevant to all visual arts students, textiles, painting, drawing and visual communications students especially welcome) to a lively exhibition in London: at the Ben Uri Gallery…
OCA is running another study visit, rich with diversity, beginning with the Raqib Shaw Exhibition, followed by a tour of selected works at Manchester Art Gallery on the theme of ‘Constructing the Other’. This will run on Saturday 9th March…
Paper art – the use of paper itself as a means of expression in Fine Art, rather than simply as a support for drawing or painting, only began to emerge around the mid 20th century. Now there are paper artists…
This video has been produced on request of the OCA Student Association (OCASA) because of the number of students who agonise about how best to send their work for assessment. It’s most relevant to Visual Arts students not including Photography,…
Pat Hodson led a recent study visit in Barnsley and reports for us here: ‘In retrospect, this exhibition was perfect for a study visit. The gallery is compact, but modern, light and quiet. We were the only visitors, so could…
Artist Liang Shaoji points out that in Chinese the words for poetry and for silk are homonyms (a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings), and this serendipity has led him…
This study visit, at Barnsley Civic art gallery, will run on Wednesday 12 December. It’s is an ideal opportunity for textiles students to see the work of two developing textiles artists. OCA tutor Pat Hodson will accompany your around this…
