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Student stories: Arlene Sharp

Posted: 15/03/22 03:09 | 28 Comments

The Freelands Painting Prize has been developed to support artists at an early stage in their practice and all UK art colleges are able to nominate a single student in their final course of study to be considered for it. We convened a panel of all the tutors for the eligible students and undertook a two stage process to identify one candidate. We used a simple scoring system and, whilst everyone got some points, one person was a clear winner and that was Arlene Sharp.

Study event review: ‘Collocations – pain & trauma’, Chatham Kent.

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Posted: 08/03/22 10:56 | 7 Comments

This was a study event with a big difference for me to all the others I have attended with OCA – instead of looking at other artist’s work, in this instance, I was the subject of the study visit.

Augmented Reality – what place does this have in art?

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Posted: 23/02/22 02:12 | 8 Comments

The primary focus for Artivive, going by their website, appears to be its use in galleries, but I was beginning to see the potential beyond that context. What if artists could add an audio track for people with literacy difficulties? Or a video of themselves talking about the work? Or how about a video comprising photos showing how the finished piece came about?

Student stories: Dr Linda Mayoux

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Posted: 21/12/21 09:44 | 2 Comments

Linda has recently submitted Advanced Practice and Visual Research for assessment. For these units Linda generated a substantial body of written work, extensive research, idea generation, mixed media experimentation, visual development, alternative layouts and final visual solutions.

More Than Sum Parts: Exhibition News!

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Posted: 20/12/21 09:02 | 5 Comments

OCA students Kym (Coratin) Walker and Steve Meyfroidt are delighted their work ‘fragile power’ is currently on display in the RE:FORM Exhibition at Florence Arts Centre, North Cumbria.

Painting and Drawing student work Autumn 2021

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Posted: 17/12/21 02:32 | 13 Comments

As Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Painting and the BA (Hons) Drawing degrees at OCA I am delighted to present a curated exhibition of the work presented by the students in both departments for the Autumn 2021 assessment event.

Creative Arts 2021 Showcase ‘Crossing The Boundary’

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Posted: 24/11/21 09:28 | 2 Comments

For the 2020/21 academic year, I wanted to develop a showcase of student work from across the Creative Arts (CA) programme at any stage of their study. I aspired to offer a view of what CA students are achieving through their interdisciplinary practices and hope to share this more widely with the OCA community and beyond.

Student Stories: Jessica Higgins

Equality & diversity sustaining practice

Posted: 03/11/21 12:19 | 6 Comments

In my essay for I’m keen to investigate an issue that has bothered me all my writing life. Why are black writers always described, in the media and in publishing, as ‘black writers’ while white writers are simply described as ‘writers’? I also want to just be a ‘writer’.

To find out more details about the transfer to The Open University see A New Chapter for OCA.