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Blogs slowly develop over time, post by post, so it takes a while to see them developing into an interconnected body of work, reflections, and links that narrate a student’s learning journey. So its great when you come across a blog that has been slowly maturing over time. Tutor Raymond Tomin has shared one such […]
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OCA has introduced prizes/awards across all its schools since the successful introduction a couple of years ago of an annual art prize for students demonstrating exceptional work and good studentship. These awards take different forms depending on the subject area. OCA art history student Jackie Fry has been the first OCA student to be awarded […]
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Mark Charlton completed his OCA studies and graduated with a first class degree in September 2012. His first book, Counting Steps, Journeys into Landscape and Fatherhood is published by Cinnamon Press this month. Mark blogs regularly at Views from the bikeshed and has just tutored at Ty Newydd, National Writing Centre, Wales with the acclaimed travel writer Rory Maclean. Here, he […]
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This video shows robust development through an OCA course, the result of hard work, visual enquiry and listening to tutor feedback. There is remarkable progress evident here. Take a look, and listen to OCA tutor and assessor Jim Unsworth explain how this has happened. Thanks to OCA student Anne Marie O’Driscoll.
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Judy Bach’s work has featured on the OCA website before, but the image above leaped out the OCA flickr group at me and demanded a wider audience. Judy is a student on the level one course Digital Photographic Practice and this image comes from a series she has been working on as part on the […]
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In this video, Photography Curriculum Leader Peter Haveland, talks about the level three project ‘A Dozen Eggs’ by Harry Pearce. Harry’s work will feature in an exhibition at Bank Street Arts from 13 November. Jose Navarro will be hosting a study day on family photography on Saturday 24 November to coincide with the exhibition. There […]
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Josie George, as might be gleaned from the title of her OCA student blog, is a driven person. I’ve chosen this as blog of the week because its right up there on google, which shows how active she is on her blog. Google detects activity on a blog and pushes it up the rankings if […]
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That’s a whole year, during which OCA students have been submitting their work to The Big Issue in the North (BITN). Ben Robinson was the first student contributing to the partnership in 2011. His photograph of Sheffield-based singer-songwriter Gibson set the high standards that subsequent submissions have upheld. Ben, who produced the images while working […]
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It has been a while since we have had a blog of the week. So long that we probably need to think of a new term, along the lines of ‘great learning logs we have noticed in the last n weeks’.
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