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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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Fine Art Programme Tutor, Hayley Lock, discusses the student journey so far with Shirry Insole, a student on the BA Fine Art degree who has just completed the second unit, 2.2 Experimental Encounters, the second Level 2 course unit designed around collaboration and working with others.
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Funding for studies is changing. Radically. And yet just over 1 in 10 people are aware of what is happening. In January 2027 the new Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) system will come into effect. This is an initiative designed by successive governments to allow learners to study flexibly through a modular approach to learning. This will replace the student loans system in England.
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My name is Felicity Talman, and I recently completed a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree with the OCA. I started studying with the OCA in 2019 after moving to Wales and deciding to pursue a creative education—something I had always put to one side. At the time, I had two young children aged four and […]
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Fine Art Programme Tutor, Hayley Lock, discusses the student journey so far with Jess Reid, a student on the BA Fine Art degree.
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