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Study event review: OCA North group
Posted: 03/10/18 09:09 |
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The second meeting of the OCA north group met recently in Newcastle. There were some familiar faces from the inaugural Leeds meeting and plenty of new ones. The meeting began with an open discussion around the function and design of the group, with some different views raised this time than in the previous meeting so perhaps these kinds of groups need to evolve over time as the nature of the group itself evolves.
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Study event review: Developing sketchbooks with artist Karen Stamper
Posted: 02/10/18 09:37 |
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For anyone thinking about setting up similar opportunities, I would say go for it as there is a lot of support available. As well as working with an artist and developing sketchbook work everyone was pleased to be able to get together with other OCA students to talk, work and learn with each other. Everyone left wanting to do another workshop!
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Show Don’t Tell or Show and Tell?
Posted: 01/10/18 09:31 |
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If I am ever worried about showing vs telling in my own work, I tend to look at the situation from the perspective of the reader. A reader told something will go away knowing it. A reader shown something will go away having interpreted it and worked it out for themselves.
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Scroll free September: Interview with Emma George, Student Support Adviser.
Posted: 28/09/18 12:31 |
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It was my birthday so I was looking forward to getting all of my happy birthday messages as nobody posts cards anymore – I can’t have a birthday without Facebook! I haven’t looked at it though.
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Study Visit Review: London group study day
Posted: 27/09/18 09:27 |
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This study day has helped me to forge a different relationship with the landscape viewing it as place enables me to discuss or form my own relationship with that place rather than an exact physical depiction. I enjoyed using my own memories; nightclubs, brightness, misty dark mountains, land…
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Artes Mundi: 8
Posted: 26/09/18 01:48 |
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Join OCA’s Helen Warburton in Cardiff on the 27 October.
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Learning from the experts; David Mitchell
Posted: 26/09/18 09:22 |
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Always keep an eye open for advice from pre-eminent writers like David Mitchell. They often have hit on ideas, devices and techniques that helped them get from an initial thought to an acclaimed book. By tapping into their ingenuity, you can only further your own writing.
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Staying Connected- A Summer project by MA Fine Art Cohort 2016
Posted: 25/09/18 09:32 |
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As a group we decided it would be a good idea to do something over the summer to stay in touch with each other. We wanted to participate in a project together that befitted how we communicate as a distance learning group of individuals, all living in different parts of the world, digitally connected.
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Being curious
Posted: 24/09/18 09:00 |
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To be a student is innately to find out more about a subject. To explore and investigate, to delve deeper and make connections between seemingly unrelated sources.
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Your Voice: Shape the World Around You
Posted: 22/09/18 09:09 |
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At OCA, our revamped mission is to introduce student-led activities to our operations and learning models. Integral to this is to give you, our students, a greater voice in decision making processes that affect you. This academic year we are introducing two new surveys that form an integral element of our academic monitoring processes; the Unit Evaluation Survey, and the Level Analysis Survey.
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