OCA creative writing tutors pick their literary highlights for 2011, reflecting on what the writers they choose have to teach students of creative writing. The range is wide: this year's Man Booker winner, performance poetry in Wales, short fiction, the Poet Laureate's new collection, poems from the Outback....
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A two pronged study day is planned for 21st January in Liverpool. Two exciting exhibitions, in a wonderful city.
First we'll go to Tate Liverpool to learn about Lewis Carroll’s timeless novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through th
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It was a great honour to be invited to lead the first OCA Music Workshop on 12th November. The day focused on compositions for solo flute, and students were asked to submit short pieces which would be discussed during the workshop.
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Last Thursday I made my way through dark rain-soaked London to see a most inspiring exhibition: ‘Murmuration’: an installation at the Black Rat Gallery by artist Swoon.
Swoon aims to make art that speaks to people in a direct way, interact
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OCA creative writing student Mary Webster, who was awarded a first in her Creative Arts BA honours degree, has just published her first volume of poetry, 'Tread softly', in celebration of her achievement. Drawing together the work she completed when studying with the OCA, her poems record her relationship with the natural world...
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True artists are dedicated souls. Nothing will come in the way of an artist and his subject matter. The compulsion to create overwhelms everything. Student and teacher alike, we all are single-minded in our quest. Art is life, or so we like to think.
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You missed a real treat of a study day if you were not with me, a couple of textile tutors and an art history tutor, at what is my exhibition of the year: the Grayson Perry 'Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' at the British Museum. I have never seen an
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