Good news from the Photographers’ Gallery. They have announced both a re-opening date and the first exhibitions in their enlarged premises. I am particularly excited that we will get the opportunity to see Oil by Edward Burtynsky.
We first blogged about Oil almost exactly...
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Several times lately, I've been asked for help by students really struggling with the weaving section of Textiles 1. Apologies to those tutors and students who are weavers, but this is an area which causes a lot of headaches for many. I think in al
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Last week's Wikipedia blackout and journalist Johann Hari's decision not to return to 'The Independent' put plagiarism in the news. But plagiarism, imitation, forgery, flattery, call it what you will, the discipline of writing in the voice of another writer is a good way to find your own voice.
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The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years continues to show no signs of abating. Over the last few months several bodies of photographic work focusing on the humanitarian emergency in the region have appeared in national and internation
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Looking up from the programme, a puzzled expression crossed the child’s face as he asked: ‘What’s a lieder recital?’ ‘A song recital’. ‘So what’s lieder?’ ‘German for songs’. ‘So why . . . .?’.
And well might
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OCA student Lucie Bromfield recently completed a level 2 OCA painting course and submitted a suite of work that demonstrated such thoughtfulness and integrity that we just had to review it for the blog. Lucie's mark reflected what the assessors felt
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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, re
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