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The creative urge just won’t go away….. that’s what brings many people in mid life to OCA. Here Jane Perkins tells the story of her mid life conversion to achieve her creative dreams. ‘As a young child, I always enjoyed being creative; drawing, embroidery and ‘making things’. From school, I trained as a nurse and […]
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Pat Moloney talks about Linda Beadle’s Textiles 1 learning logs and the role of learning logs in general.
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One of the things that has been concerning me recently is that, while we have showcased some fantastic student work over the last year, we possibly haven’t conveyed enough about who are the students are behind the work. So it was with alacrity that Mark and I seized the opportunity to interview Esther Rose, who […]
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OCA student Emil Nemecek shares his visual diary, interest in Czech graphic design and some of the challenges of studying graphic design in a second language.
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It has been a few weeks since we have had a blog of the week, so I was grateful when photography tutor Derek Trillo drew my attention to Jonny Sutton‘s log for Art of Photography. Careful and considered, Jonny’s blog shows how he is combining course exercises with research and other practical work. Both Derek […]
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OCA photography student Simon Taylor has an exhibition of his work at the Bath cafe Boston Tea Party starting this Saturday 9 July. Simon says ‘New York can give you visual indigestion, there is the conveyor belt of people passing you by, the flickering hypnotic advertisements and the huge buildings searching like trees in the […]
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Illustration student Sarah Levy tells us a bit about her motivation for studying with us, and where her creative impulses have come from. She begins by telling us about her original studies: ‘I did a degree in 3D Design and specialised in Metal……a long time ago. The course had a broad base and gave me […]
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Melanie Dornier is a French student on the Social Documentary course and is based in Suzhou, China. She emailed me about a month ago to say that she had an exhibition of her work on show at the Gallerie Des Cents Pas, Besancon, France. Now unbeknown to most readers of WeAreOCA for the last couple […]
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There was a lot of exceptional work submitted at the last assessment event in March, but the one piece that could not be ignored was Avril Lewis’ level 3 project on the Solent. The finished piece is huge; at something like six by four feet, it is not really possible to convey the impact such […]
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The photograph above is from an exhibition of work by OCA photography student Omar Camilleri. I say exhibition, although it probably more correct to call the work an installation. Either way, it shows Omar’s work to great effect, taking the Maltese ‘pavaljuni’ form hanging over the heads of passers by in Merchant Street in Valletta. […]
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