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Student stories: Photography
Posted: 16/07/21 09:41 |
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Once again I’m delighted to share that some of our OCA photography degree students have just been selected as finalists in 2021 AOP Student Awards. Huge congratulations to our Judith Bach, Andrew Fitzgibbon and Andy Be.
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Student stories: From Big Draw participant to Psychogeographer
Posted: 13/07/21 09:51 |
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Nina is an Investigating Place with Psychogeography student, in this piece she writes about her journey in the OCA.
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Student stories: Emma Arandjelović
Posted: 12/07/21 09:12 |
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One of the most useful elements of OCA study visits is the chance for students to gain an insight into real-life creative scenarios and experience the complexities of day-to-day professional practice. In addition, study visits can often sow the seed for further projects and opportunities.
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Celebrating Pride with the OCA Student Association
Posted: 09/07/21 12:11 |
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A look at how the OCA Student Association celebrated Pride.
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Student stories: Paul Butterworth
Posted: 01/07/21 09:55 |
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Painting student Paul Butterworth will be featured on Interim Arts Instagram account Friday 23 July.
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Student stories: Annalisa Mercuri
Posted: 24/06/21 09:42 |
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Annalisa Mercuri is a Level Two Painting student who is about to complete the Drawing Two: Investigating Drawing unit. Despite some severe lockdown restrictions (she lives in Verona) she has managed to have work accepted into a couple of prestigious group shows over the past year or so. In this short interview, her tutor Bryan Eccleshall asks her about that experience.
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edge zine 11: Catalyst
Posted: 11/06/21 01:25 |
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We are pleased to announce the new issue of edge-zine is available now.
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Student stories: Bloomberg New Contemporaries – Beverley Duckworth
Posted: 25/05/21 09:25 |
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The Bloomberg New contemporaries is the leading graduate art prize in the UK. This year I am delighted to say that a graduate from our own painting pathway has made it through the incredibly competitive first stage of the process.
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Student stories: Enterprise grant success
Posted: 19/05/21 09:16 |
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As an art student / artist applying for and getting £100 pounds to spend on art is always nice. When I saw the email asking us to apply, I didn’t actually expect anything to come of it but happily it did and the only thing left to do was to decide how and what to […]
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Student stories: Martine Elliott
Posted: 29/04/21 09:24 |
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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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