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 exhibition where there...
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OCA tutor Linda Khatir welcomes student Vicky Speirs onto its new Painting 2 course, Mixed Media; one of the options if working towards the BA(Hons) Painting degree, or the BA(Hons) Creative Arts degree. Linda says: 'in previous modules Vicky has sh
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A recent piece in the magazine Frieze about the concerns contemporary artists have caught my attention, and made me wonder what preoccupies those OCA students who are striving to be better artists?
The article contends that artists' main preoccupa
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Two OCA tutors, Emma Drye and David Winning were recently in the office and we filmed them talking about one of David's students (Iwona Barltrop) who had just finished her Painting 1 course. I think the video really helps explain how important it
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Modern Times: responding to chaos at the De La Warr Pavilion, a workshop that offers an opportunity to work with the exhibition of 20th century drawings held at the De La Warr pavillion. With a consideration of how artists think through drawing as a
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Following the very positive feedback from students for Labelled Like Luggage we thought we would ask one of our Textiles tutors, Pat Hodson, to talk about her project, The Herbal Notebook and the influence of Elizabeth Blackwell
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OCA's Curriculum Director Jane Horton looks at one of Rebecca Moore's paintings of a Seated Figure and the profusion of preparatory work that went into it.
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As a charity one of the underpinning principles for the OCA is widening access to arts education to those who might otherwise be unable to benefit from it. In this slideshow Jane Horton talks about Kenneth Brown, OCA painting student whose work f
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