OCA is evolving
Posted: 04/08/21 04:41 | 3 Comments
The slideshow below provides an overview of changes to the areas of learning, teaching, assessment and curriculum at OCA.
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OCA’s online degree showcase – Live!
Posted: 30/07/21 06:13 | 4 Comments
I am delighted to announce that our first ever degree showcase at OCA launches this week at https://showcase.oca.ac.uk/. Students from the Creative Arts, Creative Writing, Painting, Photography and Textiles undergraduate degrees are all represented and the work is absolutely stunning.
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Student Association study event: Visual Art and Text
Posted: 28/06/21 09:47 | 1 Comments
Join Bryan Eccleshall for two workshops (each two hours long) to explore how text has been used in visual art and to develop your own way of doing it.
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edge zine 11: Catalyst
Posted: 11/06/21 01:25 | 0 Comments
We are pleased to announce the new issue of edge-zine is available now.
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Perception: Where Science and Art Meet. Sort Of.
Posted: 09/06/21 09:26 | 2 Comments
The important point is our brains are wired in a certain way and we invent and build the world in our heads as much as perceive it as ‘truth’. This is important for anyone attempting to represent three dimensions in two. The world is indeed out there but perhaps capturing it requires more intervention than we might initially think.
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Developing ideas through making work and ‘listening’ to the work
Posted: 24/05/21 09:25 | 7 Comments
Gwen Bird’s fourth submission for Drawing 1: Exploring Drawing Media shows how developing ideas by working through material processes rather than thinking about conclusions or results can result in creative breakthroughs. While having a goal in mind is not necessarily a bad thing when making work, it can sometimes overwhelm and obscure really interesting potential ideas that emerged from the act of making.
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Patricia Farrar coloured my world
Posted: 14/05/21 01:12 | 17 Comments
I am heartbroken to have to share the news that OCA student and artist Patricia Farrar passed away at the weekend.
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In conversation: OCA student Mel Brown & tutor Bryan Eccleshall
Posted: 06/05/21 09:40 | 0 Comments
As a tutor that’s seen a lot of these projects, it’s perhaps important to mention that no two projects are the same and there isn’t really a ‘right’ answer. The important thing to take from this is that a complex project doesn’t arrive fully-formed but is developed over time. The final format (at least for now) of this work is a recreation of Mel’s teenage bedroom – something that she couldn’t have imagined when she started.
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OCA Textiles: Observational drawing as research
Posted: 05/05/21 09:31 | 1 Comments
Observational drawing can be a great start to any project research. By observing and responding to a subject matter directly, qualities can literally be “drawn out” that you can use to develop into new ideas. It is interesting to see the variety of different approaches there are to observational drawing.
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Student stories: Martine Elliott
Posted: 29/04/21 09:24 | 2 Comments
This painting ‘Cabin Crew 20 minutes to Landing’ was created during the lockdown in that studio from many photographs and the memories from coming into land after days away on long haul trips. I painted it for my fourth assignment Practice of Painting and decided to submit it to Grayson Perry’s Art Club, the travel episode.
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