This print fair held annually at the Royal Academy is an excellent opportunity to see a huge cross section of fine art prints, contemporary and historical, mainly, but not solely, from the UK and Europe. Every conceivable technique is represented by specialist galleries, print studios and printmaker associations. The format allows you to get close … More London Original Print Fair 2019
I was captured by the work of Bill Viola during ‘Drawing 2 Investigating Drawing’ when I investigated ‘The Sublime’ in art and also started making videos as a form of drawing. I was very pleased to have this opportunity to see his work because there is very little publicly available. The current exhibition at the … More Exhibition – Bill Viola Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth
The Tintype Gallery annually commissions a series of short artist’s films based on the theme of Essex Road, its location in North London. This study visit, to see the fifth series, was facilitated by an OCA tutor in Moving Image but the attendees were from a range of disciplines which made it even more interesting. … More Study Visit – Tintype, Essex Road
Last weekend, a group of students and a tutor gathered to visit the exhibition ‘From The Inside Out’ at The Drawing Room, London. This presented work by four female artists, Nilbar Güreş, Marie Jacotey, Athena Papadopoulos and Emma Talbot, who ‘utilise expanded forms of drawing to navigate a passage from personal experience to the outside world (Drawing Room, 2018). I … More Study Visit – The Drawing Room and White Cube
It is perhaps overstating it to say that I visited an exhibition of this artist’s work, but she was exhibiting at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace recently, along with a number of textiles artists including new graduates. The range of work here is always interesting. In the past couple of years, I … More Exhibition – Sally Hewett
This multidisciplinary study day was different to many others in that it was not based around an exhibition but around a location, Phytology in Bethnal Green. The sliver of land, maybe 350m long and 35m wide, was once a church, bombed in the war and never rebuilt. The bomb site became grown over but when … More Study Visit – Art and Environment
So far I have been unsuccessful in finding any Rae prints in accessible collections for study, apart from one early letterpress work in the British Museum. They also hold two drawings, though, again, early. However, I knew that I would see some of her latest work in the RA Summer Exhibition, in addition to many … More Parallel Project – Barbara Rae at the RA Summer Exhibition
Study visits are always interesting. You get the opportunity to meet fellow students, gossip about course content and choices, talk about the challenges of distance learning and share ways of addressing them, forge new friendships. You get to meet tutors and talk about the academic process and pick their brains about course content and objectives. … More Study Visit – Tacita Dean
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