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What is experimental writing? Part 1: Fiction

Posted: 01/10/20 10:13
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creativity

By Vicky MacKenzie

The definition of ‘experimental writing’ is highly subjective, but for me it includes writing...

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Student work: Dawn Broughton

Posted: 26/09/20 09:43
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sustaining practice

By Dawn Broughton

Galleries are full of the young and unblemished and older people have been relegated...

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Celebrating July’s assessment event

Posted: 25/09/20 09:07
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digital assessment

By Moira Lovell

This is a note from the OCA assessment team to mark, and share, what...

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Student work: Jane Murdock

Posted: 24/09/20 09:10
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digital assessment

By Rebecca Fairley

I am very pleased to be sharing with you the work of BA Textiles...

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Printmaking studios at home

Posted: 23/09/20 09:29
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creativity innovation sustaining practice

By Michelle Keegan

During covid lockdown I’ve been so grateful I have a studio space at home....

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OCA news: New course – Painting 2: Exploring Media

Posted: 22/09/20 04:30
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sustaining practice

By Emma Drye

Exploring Media is the long-awaited new stage two painting course for all students on...

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Writing in 2020: Multimodal writing and the pandemic

Posted: 18/09/20 09:49
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sustaining practice

By Liz Cashdan

I wonder how much the coronavirus pandemic has affected our writing and our reading;...

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Student work: Krystyna Dembny

Posted: 17/09/20 09:15
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sustaining practice

By Krystyna Dembny

Sally, the absolute antithesis of a ‘sissy’, Sally, a woman with chutzpah, who had...

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Textiles and jewellery

Posted: 16/09/20 12:23
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creativity innovation

By Faye Hall

As my own textiles practice has, for the past few years now, been venturing...

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Creating great character voices: Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible

Posted: 14/09/20 09:51
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sustaining practice

By Nina

Writing in many voices within one novel is a challenge, one that can demonstrate...

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Student work: Amardeep Kaur

Posted: 10/09/20 09:39
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creativity digital assessment sustaining practice

By Rebecca Fairley

I am really happy to be sharing with you the work of BA Textiles...

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Why enter awards?  You might actually win!

Posted: 09/09/20 09:29
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creativity sustaining practice

By Elizabeth Woodger

When the global Covid-19 pandemic threw us all into a national lockdown, I –...

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Virtual study event: Contamination/Curation

Posted: 08/09/20 09:10
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creativity engaging social

By Helen Rosemier

The October Keeping up Momentum sessions will aim to motivate and challenge and help...

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Calling all Level Three creative writing students!

Posted: 07/09/20 03:57
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social sustaining practice

By Barbara Henderson

The Creative Writing department is now offering Zoom-based peer hangouts and workshops for students...

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Writing what you don’t know: The magic of uncertainty

Posted: 07/09/20 09:25
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sustaining practice

By Suzannah Evans

We don’t have to know where a piece of writing is going to end...

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Student work – Art & Ecology

Posted: 04/09/20 09:33
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Arts & Environment creativity sustaining practice

By Emma Drye

As Programme Leader for both the painting and drawing degree pathways I am very...

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OCA Alumni: Jason Dimmock

Posted: 03/09/20 09:16
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sustaining practice

By Joanne

Congratulations to OCA Alumnus Jason Dimmock whose portrait of Ashley Walters is one of...

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Creative Arts, Part 2: How can interdisciplinary ways of working produce new ideas?

Posted: 02/09/20 09:17
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creativity interdisciplinarity

By Doug Burton

A student recently commented to me that trying different techniques out, although unrelated, had...

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Digital Assessment: Music

Posted: 01/09/20 09:21
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digital assessment

By Carla

It is always a huge pleasure to see the assessment portfolios at each event,...

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Jerwood to Trinity Buoy Wharf – past winners and potential winners in conversation

Posted: 31/08/20 04:03
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By Bryan

It’s great to report that OCA student Alice Powell’s drawing 60 Hours was shortlisted...

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