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Creative Intersections: Music, Photography and Teaching
Posted: 17/04/25 12:22 |
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Creativity rarely exists in isolation—ideas flow between disciplines, shaping and reshaping artistic practice. This blog explores how Chamfer emerged as a response to the limitations of the contemporary art world, finding a more immediate and flexible outlet in music.
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What have I learnt from 18 years at the OCA, tutoring hundreds of students?
Posted: 04/04/25 10:04 |
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Like many of OCA’s students, I studied late in life. I didn’t do a degree after school, working for 16 years in computing. However, I increasingly felt drawn to the arts. I got absorbed in thought through creative projects, partly as an antidote to work and everyday life.
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Student Work: Suzette Hussey
Posted: 19/03/25 04:13 |
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Although writing for an educational series is very different from creative writing, my course at OCA has impacted my work. It has given me the strong foundation and the confidence that I needed to achieve this milestone.
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Experience Creative Arts
Posted: 06/03/25 02:56 |
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It wasn’t until a few months into the course when I started integrating different elements into my creative work, that I realised how well-suited the programme was for me. The process of combining disciplines opened up new possibilities and perspectives, making my creative practice far more dynamic and meaningful.
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Sustaining Practice: Find funding for your work
Posted: 20/02/25 05:06 |
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Fund Your Work: 30+ Top Opportunities and Harnessing AI for Success” is designed to guide artists through available grants and awards, demystifying the process and showing funding is an option—all while exploring how AI can make applying easier.
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OCA Interior Design: Gingerbread City, London, December 2024
Posted: 16/01/25 09:25 |
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You might make and decorate a gingerbread house at Christmas time, but could you make a whole city? Gingerbread City is an exhibition of just that—a city made from decorated gingerbread. It might seem irrelevant to those studying interior design and something more like a children’s holiday activity, but this gingerbread city is made by very experienced design professionals, and the annual competition is taken very seriously!
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