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We are pleased to announce the relaunch of edge-zine the student led zine it will be available to download from Facebook and to read...

I’m really interested in what nets mean to you. Do you come from a fishing background? Can you wax lyrical about the moment when...

Until around 20 years ago, it was possible to determine a comics artist or illustrator’s national and cultural origins from their aesthetic - from...

Áine Katrina Byrne is a Textile Artist and Designer originally from Ireland and now based in London. After Completing her MA at the RCA,...

With all that time to do nothing but write, you have to deliver, don’t you? Nope. This mindset is guaranteed to make you freeze.

10 of us Midlands OCA photography students spent a highly enjoyable afternoon with Birmingham based artist Stephen Burke at the Blast! Festival of Photography...

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism means deliberately or accidentally using someone else's work or ideas as if they were your own. Work means any intellectual...

For centuries, women have fought against adversity to pursue artistic careers in what was (and arguably still is) a man’s world.  They have suffered...

I have always thought that serious art is not just something put into the world by its makers to express their feeling or point...

The Book Group is running again! Sign up to have a relaxed discussion about books and writing.

As a way of exploring the use of model-making in Interior Design Tutor Mike Fairbrass – a very experienced professional model maker, and Programme...

We are very pleased to announce that we are working in partnership with the leading mental health charity SANE to support mental health. We...

The word Anthropocene combines the root "anthropo", meaning "human" with the root "-cene", the standard suffix for "epoch" in geologic time. Whilst the term...

With such a large multidisciplinary group, I wanted to start the day with a lecture on ‘Global Perspectives in Contemporary Creative Arts’. I’m aware...

If you are heading to Portugal this summer, take some time to look around Lisbon’s vibrant art scene. This is art in the more...

These days, online books get updated, and customers will get the newest version free of charge. Publishers want their contemporary fiction to be up-to-the-minute....

It was great to see such liberated and stimulating interplay between students and the work they were making. Unfamiliar drawing methods were explored including...

All over Britain art students of all ages are setting up end of year shows. From primary school to adult education, from higher education...

As part of a developing collaboration with UCA’s music department, I visited the new recording studios at the Farnham campus on 27 March. I...

Write a paragraph describing the leaf in as much detail as you can. The only rule is you’re not allowed to use the words...