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OCA MA Fine Art: In conversation with Riette van Rensburg
Posted: 26/04/24 09:59 |
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The OCA MA Fine Art team have been working with their students to undertake some student led peer interviews about their work at MA level. The focus of this was for students to construct the questions and answers and select work that they want to discuss and show. Hear from Riette van Rensburg below.
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Student Stories: Julia McLean
Posted: 19/10/23 02:10 |
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OCA Photography Program Leader Dan Robinson caught up with Julia McLean about her experience on OCA’s short course Investigating Place with Pyschogeography
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Student stories: Ange Mullins
Posted: 19/07/23 09:40 |
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I’m Ange, a Creative Arts student, and I’m within touching distance of the finishing line after many years of study with OCA. I began in about 2008, although I can’t now recall exactly when I signed up with what was then a very different OCA. I joined purely as a means to learn more about ‘art’, a promise validated with a certificate of completion at the end, along with a vague suggestion to have work assessed; little did I realise that my journey would culminate with a BA (Hons) Creative Arts Degree.
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OCA’s Online Degree Show Showcase 2023
Posted: 14/07/23 12:39 |
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 22/23 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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Student work: Archive as Creative Presentation
Posted: 13/07/23 11:54 |
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This blog post introduces the production of a creative archive by ECA student Tim Harbridge. Tim’s Box Concert archive demonstrates an excellent and engaging use of combined methods across film, audio, physical objects, and installation.
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Student stories: Explorations in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Technology
Posted: 28/06/23 11:06 |
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I am delighted to launch this exhibition; Explorations in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Technology; at The Best Little Virtual Gallery hosted by Artsteps. As a peer critique group, we have been meeting monthly on Zoom to present and discuss our work and support each other through what is a very long period of study with many ups and downs.
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Talking and walking through Trentham Gardens
Posted: 26/06/23 12:36 |
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Online studying can be a lonely experience. The Garden Design Students have an amazing WhatsApp group with advice and encouragement a plenty, but nothing beats getting together and meeting in person. A Student meet up was organised for the last May Bank Holiday, somewhere in the middle of everyone’s home towns.
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Student news: Dhama Thanigasapapathy
Posted: 23/05/23 11:00 |
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I am delighted to announce that OCA painting student Dhama Thanigasapapathy has been announced as one of the winners of the 2023 Freelands Painting Prize.
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Student stories: Menacing Beauty
Posted: 13/05/23 11:49 |
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Menacing Beauty – an online exhibition by OCA students Sonia Böning (Munich) and Dhama Thanigasapapathy (London).
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Student stories: Nuala Mahon
Posted: 14/04/23 01:48 |
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I have arrived at the finishing line of the long adventure that is (or was) the OCA degree process. I started my journey in November 2015 and submitted for my final assessment in January 2023 and to my great surprise I am now the holder of a BA(Hons) in photography.
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