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Highlights from a vibrant Creative Arts assessment
Posted: 17/01/23 11:12 |
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As is often the case, assessment events offer great insight into the diverse BA (Hons) Creative Arts community and the wide range of approaches to interdisciplinary practice on the programme.
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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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Garden Design – 21/22 News roundup by Programme Leader Gill German
Posted: 31/08/22 09:36 |
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After the challenges of 2020 the Garden Design Department is now steadily growing. We had a successful assessment in July with all students passing with good grades and all continuing on to the next unit. It is really exciting having a range of student experience in the Garden Design Department. We have more students finishing current units now and I’m looking forward to their applications for their unit assessments.
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Student stories: Searching for the Light
Posted: 16/08/22 10:04 |
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I’m really pleased to announce that Mickos’ inaugural solo exhibition “Searching for the Light” will take place at The JM Gallery in London.
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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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OCA Degree Show Showcase 21/22
Posted: 25/07/22 10:54 |
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 21/22 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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