OCA-North Study Group

Hi everyone,

We’re having a Zoom meeting in January and would love for you to join! We’ll be planning trips and visits for 2026 and talking about ways to get more members involved in activities.

It’s a great chance to meet others, make friends, chat about our courses, and get ideas for group visits and workshops. If you haven’t joined a meeting before, this is the perfect opportunity to see what it’s all about - we really want to hear what you’d like from the group.

Feel free to come with ideas or just come along to listen and get a feel for things. There will also be a chance to share a piece of your recent work from your course, which is always fascinating as we do different courses and it’s inspiring to see what everyone else is creating.

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Hello all 'Northern' OCA artists. I wonder if anyone would like to meet up to visit the exhibition of the Turner Prize winner Nnena Kalu. Its on in Bradford until Feb

‘Nnena Kalu was ready for this – nobody else was’: how her Turner prize victory shook the art world | Turner prize | The Guardian

The article has made me really interested to go.

Wow, what a superb day out visiting two galleries yesterday in Sheffield! Eight members of the OCA North Study Group - a diverse team of painters, drawers, photographers and fine artists from across the OCA curriculum - met with Joanna Whittle - acclaimed artist, curator and OCA tutor - to enjoy a private viewing of two exhibitions Joanna is curating. We first visited the Weston Park Museum's celebration of 150 years, Gathering Landscapes, in which selected items from the museum's collection are connected to new works by the Heavy Water Collective under four themes (https://www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/gathering-landscapes-150-years-of-collecting-at-weston-park-museum/). After a sociable lunch, we then visited Persistence Works for the exhibition Unquiet Landscapes, in which 38 contemporary painters depict works which reference elements from the book of the same name by Christopher Neve, itself a wonderful meditation on 20th Century landscape art (https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/unquiet-landscapes-at-yorkshire-artspace-sheffield/). Joanna's insightful and engaging commentary on the curation process and on…

Monday 8^th December 2025

11.00  Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield,  S1 2BS

Hoping to see you on Monday for what will be an enjoyable and interesting trip.

If you are coming, please RSVP: https://www.ocasa.org.uk/event-details-registration/oca-north-in-person-event-landscape-exhibitions-with-oca-tutor-joanna-whittle