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This post features music composed by Edinburgh based music student Jamie Dunnett. He writes as follows. “Night Music was written specifically for OCA tutor and professional flautist Carla Rees to play at the composition workshop in November 2011. The brief was to write a piece, up to 3 minutes long, for unaccompanied flute. “The workshop […]
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Listen to this fascinating piece about writing good quality reflective commentaries. OCA tutor and Creative Writing assessor, Liz Cashden, explains what makes a good creative commentary, and reads out some revealing samples by John Wrigglesworth, who stands up for A(a)mbrosia!Liz Cashden – John Wrigglesworth_11012012
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OCA student Amano Samarpan will be familiar to many students from his frequent attendance at study visits. He has recently had published a new edition of his successful award-winning book Birds of India. For this 4th edition Amano travelled to India to supervise the design and printing process. In this interview with Jose Navarro, Amano […]
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Our second ‘blog of the week’ this year is by Graphic Design student Sarah Pease. I particularly liked this postcard design from her first assignment, with Sarah’s explanation of the design choices ‘I used the green of Gordan’s gin bottles of which they had over 20 lined up on the windowsills and Dakota handwriting font […]
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This is the second time we have highlighted Fran Clark’s blog: its just too good to ignore. Fran is doing the level one Drawing Skills course but her reflections, and the way she goes about documenting them, are outstanding. Just look at what she has written for her assignment five work. Fran tells us not […]
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For this blog I wanted to share with you the first assignment I received recently from my student Milena Blaziak. On opening the folder my first impression was that Milena had been working with enthusiasm, energy and focus. Her initial exploratory drawings were done on newsprint which reminded me of the incredibly intense experience of […]
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It was a great honour to be invited to lead the first OCA Music Workshop on 12th November. The day focused on compositions for solo flute, and students were asked to submit short pieces which would be discussed during the workshop. A fantastic group of 16 music students descended upon the OCA’s Head Office in […]
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OCA creative writing student Mary Webster, who was awarded a first in her Creative Arts BA honours degree, has just published her first volume of poetry, ‘Tread softly’, in celebration of her achievement. Drawing together the work she completed when studying with the OCA, her poems record her relationship with the natural world and her experience of getting to know Africa, and capture moments of the human life she observes around her.
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Its not often assessors do a double take… but Andrew’s work was a submission that caused assessors to look again. Why? Andrew doesn’t draw in a conventional way, its quirky. But he has a voice, a clear and unique voice. This is rare at the level that Andrew’s working at. Still he has a way […]
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Textiles assessor Pat Hodson was impressed with Jackie Ward’s textiles submission at the last assessment, and picked it out to inspire other students… check out this video of Pat talking about the backdrop to Jackie’s final submission, a bodice.
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