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I was present at the Small Publishers Fair with the Intergraphia publishing project, which is co-edited by myself and artist-writer Emma Bolland. Intergraphiaa is committed to inclusive and intersectional publishing, focusing on work by artists and writers across and between genres and disciplines.
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Composer Neil Tòmas Smith reflects on being selected to write a piece for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Dunedin Consort, and soprano Anna Dennis.
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As Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Drawing degree I have been eager to see how the new degree pathway we have designed is working out for students. Drawing is a hugely broad discipline that extends into all sorts of processes and approaches. I’ve asked a few students on the very first unit of the degree Drawing Practices, how things are going and I am pleased today to shine a spotlight on the second of them, Sabine Jones.
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As a Programme Leader, it is always with mixed feelings that I hear a tutor is leaving to go and do something exciting with the practice. I am of course pleased, as one artist to another, that drawing tutor Simon Manfield has taken that bold step to focus on his own practice, but we will all miss him dreadfully.
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The OCA MA Fine Art team have been working with their students to undertake some student led peer interviews about their work at MA level. The focus of this was for students to construct the questions and answers and select work that they want to discuss and show. Hear from Blair Maule in this post.
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The OCA MA Fine Art team have been working with their students to undertake some student led peer interviews about their work at MA level. The focus of this was for students to construct the questions and answers and select work that they want to discuss and show.
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Since its launch in 2021, our Foundation Material and Making: Approaches to Sculpture course has welcomed a diverse range of students who have expanded their creative ideas. The course introduces various key creative methods and approaches to making, encouraging students to explore and respond to materials and objects in their local environment in imaginative ways.
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The OCA MA Fine Art team have been working with their students to undertake some student led peer interviews about their work at MA level. The focus of this was for students to construct the questions and answers and select work that they want to discuss and show. Hear from Riette van Rensburg below.
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The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) has recently announced that entry is now open for their 2024 Student Drawing Competition.
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Having joined Open College of the Arts at the start of the year, it felt high time for a proper introduction! I’m Richard, OCA’s brand new Librarian. Having stumbled into libraries by accident as a Biochemistry graduate, my career has spanned across a number of settings in Further and Higher Education and I couldn’t be more excited to bring everything to this role and help make the library make sense for you!
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