Student stories: Menacing Beauty
Posted: 13/05/23 11:49 | 0 Comments
Menacing Beauty – an online exhibition by OCA students Sonia Böning (Munich) and Dhama Thanigasapapathy (London).
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Student stories: Geraldine Leahy
Posted: 23/03/22 09:37 | 21 Comments
A solo exhibition of work by Geraldine Leahy will be on display in Rush Library, Chapel Green, Rush, Co. Dublin from the 4th – 14th April 2022 . Intriguing combinations of monoprint and paint reveal the devastating consequences of coastal erosion in Portrane, Rogerstown Estuary and Rush. The artist observes the entanglements of manmade and natural materials and the impact mankind has had on the coastline.
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What is your tutor up to? Caroline Wright
Posted: 15/10/21 11:25 | 4 Comments
OCA Programme Leader Caroline Wright is a contributor to an online conference on 19 November titled Eco-creativity 2021: Art, Music, Ritual and Global Climate Politics. It explores climate change and cultural change confluences, with particular interest in innovations in art, music and ritual.
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Student stories: Geraldine Leahy
Posted: 06/09/21 01:38 | 6 Comments
OCA Painting student Geraldine Leahy successfully completed her Major Project this year and is now embarking on her final course – Sustaining Your Practice. Geraldine currently has work featured in an online publication as well as other platforms. Her Major Project tutor, Clare Wilson, asks her to discuss these opportunities and the of impact of getting work seen by a larger audience.
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Green design
Posted: 16/06/21 09:37 | 1 Comments
Good interior design sets out to create ergonomic, functional and aesthetically pleasing environments that are pleasant to interact with. In response to increasing societal awareness of environmentally responsible design, more clients are seeking to incorporate the principles of sustainability into their interior spaces.
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What is your tutor up to? – Garry MacKenzie
Posted: 21/04/21 09:16 | 0 Comments
In some of my previous blogs I’ve explored writing about the environment, translation, and building on other texts in your own writing. These are all issues which I’ve been thinking about for my poetry book Ben Dorain: a conversation with a mountain, which has just been published. In this blog I’ll explain what the book is about, and share what I’ve learned from writing it.
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Student work – Art & Ecology
Posted: 04/09/20 09:33 | 6 Comments
As Programme Leader for both the painting and drawing degree pathways I am very pleased to present the finissage of the painting and drawing ecology group’s recent group work, led by artist and tutor Lydia Halcrow.
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A musical collaboration for World Oceans Day
Posted: 08/06/20 12:03 | 3 Comments
I’ve just completed a short collaborative piece with Music Programme Leader Carla Rees in celebration of World Oceans Day, which occurs every year on June 8. Across the world there are close to 3000 events in 150 countries designed to celebrate and focus our attention onto the value of the world’s oceans and what we can do to conserve and protect them and allow them to flourish.
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To creatively focus on the present
Posted: 21/04/20 11:20 | 4 Comments
We may not all have access to outdoor spaces with the chance to nurture and grow, but our creative endeavours – even simply the planning of, or reflection on them, facilitate a state of mindfulness: ‘to still a busy mind, settle into a new activity and refocus on the present’
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Woven Textiles exploring sustainable and waste materials
Posted: 13/02/20 09:42 | 5 Comments
The textiles and fashion industry is second only to the oil industry in terms of the huge amount of pollution created from production and manufacture, and it needs real change to become sustainable in terms of the effects on the environment and being sensitive to kinder production within the design supply chain. I wanted to write a blog post that shines a little spotlight on some contemporary practitioners who are creating the innovative fabrics the industry is so desperate for whilst also using sustainable fibres and waste material, to push traditional weaving techniques and create exciting fabrics.
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