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A character using public office to get something done was the initial idea for OCA creative writing student Keith Hutson’s latest play ‘The Champion’ in which a councillor makes the most of his position by setting up a boxing club for disadvantaged kids.  Earlier this year, ‘The Champion’ made it to the last 150 from […]

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Typical?

One of the things that you learn very rapidly when you join the OCA staff is that there is no such thing as a ‘typical OCA student’ – students come a huge variety of backgrounds and with widely different levels of prior experience and different expectations of what studying with the OCA can bring to […]

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Multidisciplinary Practices

Established practitioners and students alike may have, at some point, received the same line of enquiry into their field; more so with photographers and that is to define and label themselves within a finite medium. You can never be just a photographer; the inquisitive person wishes to probe further until you say something like ‘I’m […]

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Conveying a message: Vicky Spiers

OCA assessor Jim Unsworth discusses a small selection of work by student Vicky Spiers from her submission for the level 2 Mixed Media course.

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Student work uncovered: Stephanie d'Hubert

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   OCA assessor and tutor Sharon Boothroyd on Stephanie d’Hubert’s thought provoking work for the narrative project in the course Art of Photography

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Peter Appleton wins the OCA prize for painting

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Peter Appleton has just completed a degree with the OCA. His final body of work was so outstanding he has been awarded this year’s Richard Robbins prize at OCA. His award has helped him mount an […]

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Inventive, creative sketchbooks? Look no further…

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Here is a glimpse into some of the most inventive and creative sketchbooks you may have seen: by second level OCA student Sandra Kendall. OCA tutor and assessor Emma Drye reports.

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OCA tutor Doug Burton in praise of level one printmaker Janet Gomes

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   Have a look at the prints by level one student Janet Gomes, who is highlighted because of her excellent assessment submission in July. OCA tutor and assessor Doug Burton takes a look….

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OCA Creative Writing award winner Karen Gunning

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date   OCA tutor Liz Cashdan reports on Karen’s winning story. Karen was Liz’s student. It’s great that Karen Gunning has won the OCA annual competition prize for Creative Writing for her story “The Big 4-0”. Her story […]

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Photography and Nostalgia

This is a post from the weareoca.com archive. Information contained within it may now be out of date.   The two go hand in hand.  As soon as a photograph is taken the moment becomes a thing of the past, frozen in time for us to ‘remember’.  Looking back, sentimentalising a captured memory and the […]

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