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Andrea Norrington, Author at The Open College of the Arts

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Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work thumb

Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work

Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.

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Virtual Study Event – OCA East of England & friends thumb

Virtual Study Event – OCA East of England & friends

Join the OCA East of England regional group’s next meeting via on Zoom on Saturday 25 July 2020 1.00pm – 3.00pm. The topic being discussed – Being Critical.

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Reflective Writing:  Taking time to invest in your work. thumb

Reflective Writing:  Taking time to invest in your work.

For some it may seem counter-intuitive to stop and take stock of your own work. The pressure of looming deadlines often means that you want to keep moving forward and keep producing work. However, taking time out to pause and reflect on your work can pay great dividends and allow for much stronger work to be developed as a result.

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Working under restrictions – Student examples thumb

Working under restrictions – Student examples

For those currently producing work under lockdown conditions, it may feel like a strange period adjusting to this new normal.  However, taking a look through student work all produced prior to the start of Covid-19, it is clear that OCA students have always worked in a domestic or localised space.

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Virtual study event: OCA East of England and friends

On 30 May, tutor Andrea Norrington will lead a discussion on undertaking research including tips and techniques and how to feed into your sketchbooks/learning logs.

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Working in a domestic space

Looking back at them now I see some potential in them. The sprouting potatoes seem to have found new meaning in the time of the Covid-19 virus. I was just thinking yesterday perhaps I should plant some in a bucket to grow in our very small garden?

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