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Dan Robinson
Student work: Scraps of Memory by Catherine Munro
Posted: 09/01/20 09:58 |
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The Creative Arts program encourages interdisciplinary approaches. It’s great to see how students can navigate multiple units to build a coherent creative practice. It can be hard to juggle different parts of a practice based course and one of the key challenges, I think, can be finding how to develop an individual direction. It can be very useful to step back and reflect on what are the ideas and methods that really drive and inspire you. This body of work entitled Scraps of Memory, by HE5 Creative Arts student Catherine Munro feels useful to share with wider OCA.
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Study visit live! Ruth Maclennan at Pushkin House.
Posted: 09/01/20 09:21 |
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In association with Ruth Maclennan, BA Photography and OCA’s Arts & Environment series, Dan Robinson and Melissa Thompson will visit Ruth Maclennan’s study day at Pushkin House on 18 January, to help make this exhibition and event accessible to OCA students around the globe online.
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Engaging Places: Environment, Anthropocene & Ecology E-Meet Nov 27th
Posted: 25/11/19 04:02 |
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Our next Arts & Environment E-meet is November 27th, 6-7pm UK time. Link to join https://oca.zoom.us/j/418087540 Please sign up for the meet first via this google form WHAT and WHY? Get involved. This is an informal online chat using zoom. A 60 minute conversation to share ideas and resources to support each other’s work-in-progress. Our […]
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Study event review: Arts & Environment E-Meet
Posted: 11/10/19 09:43 |
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Arts and Environment E-meets are open to all OCA students and combine individual presentations with group discussion to explore and share ideas about how creative practices can engage with environment issues and place, particularly at this time of global climate crisis.
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Art and soil: Part 3
Posted: 07/08/19 09:43 |
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“I found it interesting that Alistair related Grizedale’s approach to art and everyday life to ideas of curating as, ‘making things with care – be it food, craft, art, writing, social projects, enterprises…’
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Art & soil: Part 2
Posted: 31/07/19 09:52 |
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We discussed how different cultures and histories understanding of ‘good and bad soil’, before glass and microscopy developed scientific understanding of microorganisms, about mythologies of ghosts, culture and knowledge attached to the land, and more specifically compost, earth, clay, loam, silt and sand.
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Speaking Soil
Posted: 24/07/19 09:35 |
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Over three blog posts. Dan reports on his recent involvement in Grizedale Arts anniversary weekend, and a current opportunity to get involved with them. The themes of this relate to current Arts & Environment learning resources, visits and e-meets developed by Dan and Melissa for OCA.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 2.
Posted: 20/05/19 09:12 |
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These events are part of a program of Art & Environment visits taking the context of climate change as a backdrop for explorations of art, design and ecology, environment and nature.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 1.
Posted: 15/05/19 09:13 |
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In our discussion about trial and error and finding the right working conditions to be able to experiment as part of the creative process, OCA student Bernadette summed it up nicely, “Lets set out to make loads of mistakes.”
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Arts & Environment events and e-meets
Posted: 27/03/19 09:03 |
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Join Dan and Melissa on the 27 and 28 April 2019 in South London. Attend one or both days, we will be drawing outdoors, using microscopes and sharing work in progress amongst other things.
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