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Creative Arts in Conversation: Rachel Smith and Trine Wade thumb

Creative Arts in Conversation: Rachel Smith and Trine Wade

As an artist of Place, my process-led practice is centred around an exploration of embodied experience, the ‘being-in-place’. With an auto-ethnographic focus and a phenomenological methodology, I respond materially to thoughts, feelings, and experiences that emerge from both fleeting encounters and more long-term emplacements. 

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London’s V&A Storehouse thumb

London’s V&A Storehouse

The OCA Student Association (OCASA)’s recent announcement of the launch of OCA’s Cabinet of Curiosity – A collaborative Project in July this year during the Student Voice Festival 2025, has aligned nicely with the recent launch and opening of the V & A East Storehouse.

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OCA Creative Arts: Student Story, Tim Harbridge thumb

OCA Creative Arts: Student Story, Tim Harbridge

Studying BA (Hons) Creative Arts Unit 1.1 I wrote the following paragraph about ‘Place’. I have been pleased to re-visit these ideas throughout Stage 1 units to reconsider the notion of defining a place and, in doing so, changing its fundamental nature and purpose.

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Creative Arts Review – Björk’s Cornucopia an interdisciplinary audio-visual feast thumb

Creative Arts Review – Björk’s Cornucopia an interdisciplinary audio-visual feast

Recently, I went to see the film version of Björk’s live show Cornucopia. Showing in cinemas worldwide for a limited time in May. Between 2019 and 2023, Björk toured this immersive audio-visual concert experience around the world, and it has been translated into a filmic experience, shown at cinemas so that a wider audience can see this interdisciplinary work.

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Student Work: Trine Wade ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’ thumb

Student Work: Trine Wade ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’

As part of my final unit in Stage 3, I staged an exhibition of my major project. Over four weekends in January 2025 I exhibited my work in a building adjacent to my house. Entitled ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’, the exhibition was the curation of a project I conducted in August 2024 when I brought my grandad home to a small coastal town in Norway.

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