As a distance learning institution established in 1987 we have shifted over time from correspondence courses to an online pedagogy. And we know that our community is innovative when it comes to work space solutions. When the pandemic hit, lots of learning organisations had to make the move online, and with it outcries of “Online art school is not art school!”. I think we can wholeheartedly disagree with that.

The thing is with us, the art school isn’t online, the art school exists in people's homes and make shift studios, it exists in notebooks alongside to do lists and between school runs and making dinner. It’s transient. It’s much more exciting, dynamic, intuitive and personal. It lives in this liminal space inside and outside the institution, which is far more radical and inclusive, it’s borderless. It’s open.

In February 2024 we did a call out for members of the OCA community to share their creative making spaces with us. These are the results.