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Student Stories: Arunava Chatterjee
Posted: 23/07/26 11:22 |
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JISABOKE is an experimental spoken word and sound album that explores memory, identity, silence, empathy, emotional resilience, displacement, and belonging. It is a project that began with a simple question: what happens when music is not created only to be heard, but also to encourage people to pause, listen, reflect, and connect with their own experiences and those of others?
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Student Stories: Virginia Barrantes Fernandez
Posted: 03/07/26 09:03 |
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My practice explores how women and AFAB artists reclaim bodily agency through material, narrative and form. In my practice, I expose the violence embedded in idealised femininity, using humour, materiality, identity, feminist resistance, and objects to mediate trauma.
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Student Stories: Anthony Carey
Posted: 30/06/26 04:03 |
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Creative Arts Programme tutor Rachel Smith is in conversation with Stage 3 student Anthony Carey.
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OCA Creative Arts : Student Story – Gemma Lorente-Shore
Posted: 07/05/26 10:20 |
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Read about OCA Creative Arts student Gemma Lorente-Shore’s learning journey.
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OCA Fine Art: Student Stories – Shirry Insole
Posted: 09/04/26 04:36 |
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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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OCA Student Stories: Anna Pike
Posted: 19/03/26 03:31 |
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Stage 3 BA (Hons) Painting student Anna Pike is currently preparing to exhibit at St. Peter’s Church, Wolfhamcote, near Rugby, Warwickshire on May 2nd – 4th 2026. Here, Painting Programme Leader Emma Drye joins her in conversation to find out more about her work and plans.
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