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OCA tutor and assessor Andrea Norrington looks at the work of BA Hons Photography student Stan Dickinson.
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Skip NavigationOCA tutor and assessor Andrea Norrington looks at the work of BA Hons Photography student Stan Dickinson.
Read MoreIn my last post I explained how finding a subject that has nothing to do with sex can turn what has become a necessary scene for your book into something original and engaging. The same applies to your characters – not everyone is youthful and nubile and devastatingly attractive.
Read MoreThis is the first in a series of blogs where I introduce OCA composers (or, indeed, anybody else who might be interested) to UK-based ensembles, particularly those that are young, exciting, and focus on performing newly composed music.
Read MoreOCA tutor and assessor Bryan Eccleshall looks at the work of BA Hons Painting student Arlene Sharp.
Read MoreDo you cringe at the thought of going any further? Nearly all of us are built to the same body plan, and those bodies react in very similar ways. Maybe you’re worried that your family will be appalled at what you write. Ever heard of a pseudonym? I have to admit that it was my agent who suggested I have a go, as she’d been approached about providing stories for an erotic anthology – now long out of print.
Read MoreWherever people come from or wherever people go, people’s culture and therefore identity is in a constant evolution, a change that looks back and forward in history. For this reason, appearance plays a very important role in that, clothing establishes a way of exteriorising our personality, our own identity and thereby our history. According to that, the inspiration for my work, usually comes from my curiosity on identifying elements from different cultures that have been appropriated for another different culture, and have been given a different meaning and appearance to the previous one, at the same time as trying to understand the reasons why this has occurred.
Read MoreIn part one of this blog I discussed how planning for the story, including the environment it would be written in, set me on my way to write my first novel in six weeks. But once I had dealt with these problems the other big issue in my way was that there were many scenes […]
Read MoreIsabelle Borchgraves is a Belgian artist that creates fashion pieces made exclusively with paper.
Read MoreOCA tutors and assessors Christian Lloyd, Jo Davies and Beth Dawson look at the work of illustration 1 students Laura Jones Arnold, Alice Cleland & Elizabeth Vessey.
Read MoreLooking for some colour inspiration, I have been recently looking at the early work of one of my favourite designers, Verner Panton. Although he is most famous for his Architecture, futuristic interiors and innovative use of materials, like plastic, for furniture. He developed an exciting collection of psychedelic and colourful Textiles.
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