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Student stories: Dr Linda Mayoux
Posted: 21/12/21 09:44 |
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Linda has recently submitted Advanced Practice and Visual Research for assessment. For these units Linda generated a substantial body of written work, extensive research, idea generation, mixed media experimentation, visual development, alternative layouts and final visual solutions.
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More Than Sum Parts: Exhibition News!
Posted: 20/12/21 09:02 |
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OCA students Kym (Coratin) Walker and Steve Meyfroidt are delighted their work ‘fragile power’ is currently on display in the RE:FORM Exhibition at Florence Arts Centre, North Cumbria.
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Painting and Drawing student work Autumn 2021
Posted: 17/12/21 02:32 |
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As Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Painting and the BA (Hons) Drawing degrees at OCA I am delighted to present a curated exhibition of the work presented by the students in both departments for the Autumn 2021 assessment event.
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Creative Arts 2021 Showcase ‘Crossing The Boundary’
Posted: 24/11/21 09:28 |
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For the 2020/21 academic year, I wanted to develop a showcase of student work from across the Creative Arts (CA) programme at any stage of their study. I aspired to offer a view of what CA students are achieving through their interdisciplinary practices and hope to share this more widely with the OCA community and beyond.
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Study event review: Chain Reaction
Posted: 19/11/21 09:47 |
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OCA student Kate Nicholson reviews her experience of a recent study event.
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OCA Fine Art: Call and Response
Posted: 15/11/21 09:31 |
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In March this year I was asked to host the first Call and Response session as part of BA (Hons) Fine Art group work, to look at different venues and collections around the world that were perhaps lesser known in relation to the different degree programmes offered at the OCA.
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Student Stories: Jessica Higgins
Posted: 03/11/21 12:19 |
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In my essay for I’m keen to investigate an issue that has bothered me all my writing life. Why are black writers always described, in the media and in publishing, as ‘black writers’ while white writers are simply described as ‘writers’? I also want to just be a ‘writer’.
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Student stories: RT Jane
Posted: 22/10/21 11:09 |
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Finally it confirms to me the importance of OCA’s role as a broker for latent creativity, as an agent to support and foster the creative drive in those of us from whom it is central to our well being, and may help us to express things that we have hung onto for years.
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Postcard from the edge of Art and Science
Posted: 19/10/21 11:37 |
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Increasingly fascinated with the connections between Art and Science, I was delighted to secure a place on Edinburgh University’s ASCUS* Art and Science on a Postcard 2021 event which took place earlier this year over three consecutive weekends.
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Student stories: Johnathan Hall
Posted: 24/09/21 11:03 |
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feel this story shows that with dedicated networking (and a bit of luck), valuable opportunities can arise from the work placement. Without doing the work placement I would probably not have met this artist and I wouldn’t have the chance for my first solo exhibition.
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