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OCA News: Creative Arts Update
Posted: 01/11/23 03:00 |
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The Creative Arts Programme Leader, Doug Burton, will leave the OCA in November after twelve years of service to develop his Arts business. During this time, Doug has been instrumental in developing the Creative Arts degree to meet student’s expectations for a contemporary interdisciplinary programme that is unique in many ways within the university sector. […]
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Student Stories: Julia McLean
Posted: 19/10/23 02:10 |
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OCA Photography Program Leader Dan Robinson caught up with Julia McLean about her experience on OCA’s short course Investigating Place with Pyschogeography
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What’s in a sketch?
Posted: 22/05/23 04:58 |
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Firstly, sketching offers us a quick means to document our observations of different spaces and designs. No, these don’t have to be hyper realistic perspective sketches that show every detail. Instead, these are sketches that can be done quickly to explore various aspects of a design that might be helpful for us to understand more deeply to apply to our own designs.
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OCA News: Creative Arts – A review of our programme
Posted: 21/03/23 02:41 |
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The online department has produced more communities of practice and allowed us to meet and communicate more readily with students as a group of engaged, diverse creatives, which has been a great move forward.
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OCA News: Illustration
Posted: 02/03/23 10:16 |
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Earlier this year we contacted attendees to our ‘group work’ sessions to obtain feedback from them, responding to previous student feedback last year. We asked the questions below and would love to share the feedback we received.
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Goodbye to Drawing Programme Tutor Charlie Duck
Posted: 15/02/23 03:19 |
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As Programme Leader for Drawing I have been privileged to work with Drawing Programme Tutor Charlie Duck over the last year.
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