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Here is Jesse Alexander talking about an aspect of student Catherine Banks’ presentation for assessment…
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Skip NavigationHere is Jesse Alexander talking about an aspect of student Catherine Banks’ presentation for assessment…
Read MoreThe video Wind, Willow, Water combines photographs by Yiannitsa Cegarra with words and sounds by Petra Vergunst. It is the product of a collaborative project that started with a morning of fieldwork in the floodplains of the river Dee at Newton Dee, Bieldside. The video expresses the shared experiences and feelings about the place and […]
Read MoreI recently mentioned to Textiles Curriculum Leader Sarah Taylor that we needed to see more textiles student work on WeAreOCA. ‘Penni Redding!’ she replied ‘I have just seen some of her work. Get hold of it and put it on the blog.’ So here we are and the minute I opened the box from Penni, […]
Read MoreLes Monaghan talking about why he appreciates Jeffrey Martin’s work…
Read MoreWriters are defined by the genre in which they write and publish. Novelists – Martin Amis and George Eliot. Poets – Sylvia Plath and Rupert Brooke. Biographers – Claire Tomalin and Lytton Strachey. Labels constrain. It’s important for writers to find out through practice the genres in which they write well. Equally important is the […]
Read MoreFollowing last week’s announcement on how to submit work for inclusion in WeAreOCA, students have started to get in touch with excellent work. It was always going to be difficult to decide who or what to feature first, but I have gone for One Hundred and Thirteen by textiles student Katie Taylor. Katie’s work is […]
Read MoreHere is the first of about a dozen videos from the November assessment. Here is tutor and assessor Judy Brown talking about the work of illustration student Penny Rowe.
Read MoreAs part of the Core Concepts in Graphic Design course, students are asked to creatively develop a set of designs featuring an image of a light bulb, the word ‘light bulb’ and a block of colour. The exercise is deliberately restrictive in the visual elements it uses, but at the same time encourages students to […]
Read More‘A Brief Eternity’ is OCA student Paul Beaumont’s first novel. Shortlisted for this year’s Dundee International Book Prize, it was published in November by independent publisher Dangerous Little Books. Paul started studying with OCA in 2006 and began the novel on the level 3 Advanced Writing course. Here’s what he has learnt about writing, publishing and promoting a novel. […]
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