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How familiar is the phrase or excuse “I don’t have the time”? We say this as creatives and as OCA students. The more we think about the task, the more it becomes a chore. Suddenly, the washing up becomes more important! The BA Fine Art Meet and Make are monthly sessions where there is a dedicated time to forget everything else and focus on the OCA task at hand.
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Leaving a unit or stage and moving onto the next is not breaking up with it but maturing and moving on with it. The bonus is, you carry on with the wisdom you have learnt and the dos and don’ts. Here are three students who have a working relationship with their current practice .
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Some feedback can be seen as daunting, unpredictable, too long, too dominating and a little bit too nice. But it is up to you how you want to direct it; you have ownership and drive it in a way which suits you. What do students want from feedback sessions? Critique, direction, progress, ruthlessness, compliments?
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What do students want from a critique; direction, progress, ruthlessness, compliments?
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So, when a dialogue is opened up, it is opened up not just for the minute that you start it, but for a sustainable period…
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries was an array of reactions and confusions but by all means a must see, especially to realise the wider issues that face us whether in the everyday, in our social doings, in topical debates or of ourselves as humans and as a population.
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