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Student stories: Tracy Walker
Posted: 23/02/23 11:04 |
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In this blogpost I’d like to introduce one of our most established interior design degree students – Tracy. Tracy has been studying with us for some time, and it has been great to see how far she has progressed on her learning journey with OCA over the last few years, and how much her design work has developed.
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Student stories: Luke Shephard
Posted: 22/02/23 01:15 |
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Photography What is The Food Bank Photo Project? Times are tough and what started out as an assignment for my photography degree has grown into a project that I have continued to pursue. Taking pictures of the locations of food banks around the UK. These are not pretty pictures, but they are important pictures of […]
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From Accidents to A-Line Dresses
Posted: 16/02/23 11:36 |
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If you’re moving forward and engaged things happen… so it’s always worth giving something a go as you never know where it’s going to end up.
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Transmitting the message
Posted: 05/01/23 11:18 |
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Sometimes Keeping up Momentum events develop a momentum of their own. This post describes our experience of working together, with a hope that this will inspire others to do the same. The four of us (from the Drawing, Creative Arts, Painting and Photography pathways) met in January at Keeping up Momentum – Pushing the Envelope as Team Transmit and enjoyed the experience enough to decide to continue after the workshop.
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Student stories – Jane Murdock
Posted: 06/10/22 10:42 |
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The grant, by enabling the partaking of this exhibition, has produced some long-term affects including personally increasing my confidence in exhibiting and engaging with an audience directly but also an understanding knowing that the subject matter is one that is of societal and cultural interest and needs to be continued.
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Student exhibition: Beverley Williams
Posted: 30/09/22 10:14 |
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OCA Textiles Student Beverley Williams will be culminating her studies with an upcoming exhibition Linking the Circle at The Battle of Britain memorial in Folkstone. Beverley has studied with OCA for 10 years.
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Study event review: London, September 22
Posted: 29/09/22 11:48 |
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OCA student Dhama reviews a recent study event in London to two OCA student degree shows.
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A PDF-to-print zine as engagement for Creative Arts: Gesa Helms’ A/Folder: an instructive glossary
Posted: 12/08/22 09:16 |
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This blog explores a distributed and self-printed form of engagement in my recently completed Creative Arts practice. A/Folder: an instructive glossary is a downloadable PDF-to-print zine. Each zine offers a prompt, a set of instructions, a method to explore. I want to unpack a little what this form allows for in terms of engagement as key modality of Sustain your Practice, and, should you be interested, invite you along.
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Collaboration: Cherished Child or Frankenstein’s Monster?
Posted: 08/08/22 12:06 |
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We are five students studying Undergraduate Degrees on Drawing, Painting and Fine Art at levels one and two with OCA. We have been meeting for a number of years to support each other with our studies. Last year we agreed to work together on a collaboration project, none of us had tried this before.
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Practice-as-research and Research-as-practice. The Creative Arts work of Stage 3 student Gesa Helms.
Posted: 05/08/22 10:51 |
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In May, after concluding Stage 3 of the Creative Arts pathway, tutor Rachel Smith spoke with student Gesa Helms to explore the interweaving between practical and theoretical work in her practice and how practice-as-research methods have informed her three Stage 3 modules.
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