A new leaf: writing and observation
Posted: 17/06/19 09:35 | 1 Comments
Write a paragraph describing the leaf in as much detail as you can. The only rule is you’re not allowed to use the words ‘green’, ‘red’, ‘yellow’ or ‘brown’.
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What I’ve learned from travelling around the world (in short stories)
Posted: 13/06/19 09:22 | 1 Comments
There’s a whole, diverse world of amazing fiction out there, and exploring it is a lot cheaper than other ways of travelling around the world.
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New Programme Leader: Introducing Catherine Byrne
Posted: 12/06/19 12:36 | 3 Comments
As the new programme leader for the OCA Interior Design course I’d like to give you a bit of background to my own education and career, and also a little insight in to what you can expect from the course – as a student of Interior Design at the OCA.
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Ekphrastic Poetry
Posted: 11/06/19 09:39 | 1 Comments
It’s easy to look at a painting, for example, Van Gogh’s yellow bed and chair,, and respond with words. You might write a short story or a narrative poem about someone, possibly Van Gogh himself, who lived here. You might write a poem reproducing what you see in the painting, or something slightly more philosophical about bedrooms and their owners. But what do you write when the painting you are looking at is abstract?
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When is a collection of short stories a novel?
Posted: 06/06/19 09:35 | 4 Comments
It might seem obvious whether a book is a novel or a collection of short stories, yet I keep coming across books that seem to straddle both categories. So how can a book be both?
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New textiles tutor: Introducing Katie Taylor
Posted: 03/06/19 09:02 | 4 Comments
As a new textiles tutor at OCA I have been invited to introduce myself on the #weareoca blog. I am a sculptural installation artist based in Oxford and my work is heavily research based. My research explores the fabric and clothing found in mass graves and its ability to help forensic investigations after atrocity.
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Study event: OCA Midlands
Posted: 27/05/19 09:17 | 1 Comments
Join OCA Midlands Photography students for a day with artist Stephen Burke on Saturday 22 June at Blast Festival of Photography in the West Midlands.
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The Making of Books. Part 2.
Posted: 21/05/19 09:43 | 2 Comments
Making individual page layouts is an essential part of the book planning process. Play around with the sequencing of images. This stage can take longer than you imagine. It is good to spend time with various versions of your book before completing it.
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Study event review: Arts & environment. Part 2.
Posted: 20/05/19 09:12 | 0 Comments
These events are part of a program of Art & Environment visits taking the context of climate change as a backdrop for explorations of art, design and ecology, environment and nature.
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Music and Maths 2: Back to Basics
Posted: 16/05/19 09:14 | 0 Comments
While modernism and contemporary music are often thought of as very mathematical, numbers and ratios are in fact central to all western music. In this post I’m going to take a look at the roots of western music theory and explore the mathematical origins of our notions of consonance and dissonance.
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