Emma Drye, Author at The Open College of the Arts

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Mike Nelson

Posted: 04/12/14 09:43 | 2 Comments

As the first few students step across into the professional practice course at level 3, I thought it might be interesting to blog about exhibitions from that perspective from time to time. How was the exhibition conceived and carried out?

Where do you make your art work?

Posted: 20/10/14 09:46 | 3 Comments

Making art work can be a fragile enough thing that needing to get something out or pack something away can be enough to destroy it. For some people, walking or being somewhere else is key to unlocking creative thinking, and so too can a degree of displacement and foreignness be exhilarating and inspiring, but for most people ‘a room of one’s own’ is still a basic requirement.

Her Master's Voice

Posted: 17/09/14 09:48 | 3 Comments

The ethics of asking people to work with you or for you without pay are fraught but often these are the jobs that turn out to be the most rewarding, and with care it is possible to glean some amazing experiences from working in this way.

The Woon Prize

Posted: 01/09/14 02:41 | 1 Comments

As a student, it is important that you have a sense of the nature of the course you are studying and where it is potentially leading you.

Waiting for the Great Leap Forward

Posted: 10/06/14 10:22 | 0 Comments

‘Assessment blight’ is a real and present danger for all students but for many students though assessment is, and should be, a fantastic learning opportunity. It is a point of punctuation, a nudge to pull your thinking together and gain some perspective and clarity.

Coombe Magna

Posted: 05/06/14 10:40 | 5 Comments

OCA tutor Emma Drye catches up with Drawing 1 student Michael Coombes as he comes towards the end of his course