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Celebrate
Posted: 27/04/21 09:18 |
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For the last ‘Expressing Your Vision’ groupwork session we decided to try something a little bit different and invited all EYVers from March assessment to share the best of their submissions with their fellow students. The idea was more for a celebration than a crit, but with such a creatively diverse set of assignments there were plenty of questions to be asked and the session naturally developed into a wide ranging discussion on different aspects of the course and photography in general.
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Student work: Christine Bruce
Posted: 20/04/21 09:02 |
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OCA Programme Leader for Creative Arts, Doug Burton, in conversation with Christine Bruce.
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Student stories: Sarah-Jane Field
Posted: 19/04/21 11:22 |
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Read how OCA student Sarah-Jane Field went from creating ‘My Mother’s Name is Eve’ to ‘astronaut flowers’ in six years of study.
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My final year challenge by student photographer, Veronica Worrall
Posted: 10/03/21 12:54 |
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Study Event (virtual) 27th March 2021 Unseen Connections – A Year of Adaptions Rational, Preparation and Outcomes My final year challenge by student photographer, Veronica Worrall “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” ~Kakuzo Okakaura The modern humans’ ability to modify to novel environments relies not only on genetic mutations […]
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Student Story: Jane Weinmann
Posted: 17/02/21 06:18 |
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I’ve just reached the end of my degree in Photography with the OCA and am excitedly waiting for the final results. As a well-trained student, it’s time for that one last reflection and a look back at where I came from. When I started out on my degree a long time ago, I was always […]
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The Process of Accepting Feedback.
Posted: 12/02/21 09:29 |
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I critique as I read so you get my thoughts as I go. (Big smiley emoji). Excitement welled in my chest. I’d spent years writing my novel, and I was so proud of it. I’d found a critique group, posted my first chapter, and here it was: my very first critique. I could see it […]
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Short Film Collaboration – a painter and photographer talk
Posted: 08/02/21 09:45 |
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Andrew Fitzgibbon (photography level 3) and Paul Butterworth (painting level 2) met up to discuss their recent collaboration on Andrew’s short film, Leeds and Liverpool. Paul, who is a professional actor, liked the idea of swapping modelling for some headshots and posted his suggestion on OCA Discuss. Andrew was near completing his BoW project and […]
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Study Event: Contamination/Curation
Posted: 29/01/21 11:27 |
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Contamination/Curation was an online cross-discipline workshop over two Saturday mornings in October, part of the ongoing series of collaborative online events under the overall banner of Keeping Up Momentum organised by Level 3 photography student Helen Rosemier. This edition supported by tutor Bryan Eccleshall, who asked us to collaborate in randomly assigned groups of five […]
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Stuff that spins out of now
Posted: 20/01/21 08:57 |
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At the beginning of October 2020, Helen Rosemier organised a Momentum Session with the theme Contamination/Curation, which was led by tutor, Bryan Eccleshall. Open to OCA students from all disciplines, the idea was to split all participants into groups of five with the brief of creating a curatorial proposal for an exhibition comprising works submitted […]
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A conversation between Foundations Drawing student David Csaba and tutor Cheryl Huntbach
Posted: 09/12/20 09:09 |
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It may be interesting for prospective students, and others to know a little about your background, your life, and art experience prior to your OCA studies- for example from where you originate (how this may or may not inform your own studies / drawing work / process. My name is Csaba David and I have […]
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