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OCA Fine Art- Spring assessment happiness! thumb

OCA Fine Art- Spring assessment happiness!

Leaving a unit or stage and moving onto the next is not breaking up with it but maturing and moving on with it. The bonus is, you carry on with the wisdom you have learnt and the dos and don’ts.  Here are three students who have a working relationship  with their current practice .

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OCA Creative Arts: In Conversation – Rachel Smith and Melanie Jeffrey thumb

OCA Creative Arts: In Conversation – Rachel Smith and Melanie Jeffrey

As a theatre production teacher and student of the creative arts, I work across several disciplines, including theatre design, textiles, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and film.  Most of my work involves textiles in one form or another, but I would not limit myself to textiles alone and often my work involves combining disciplines to achieve an effective outcome.

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OCA Creative Arts:  Alumni Interview with Kuch (Kuljit) Bhogal thumb

OCA Creative Arts: Alumni Interview with Kuch (Kuljit) Bhogal

Kuch graduated from the Open College of the Arts in 2024 with a BA in Creative Arts. He is currently studying for a MSc in Creative Technologies at Winchester School of Arts. Trine Wade, our Creative Arts student rep, caught up with Kuch for an update on life after distance learning with the OCA. 

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Creative Arts in Conversation: Rachel Smith and Trine Wade thumb

Creative Arts in Conversation: Rachel Smith and Trine Wade

As an artist of Place, my process-led practice is centred around an exploration of embodied experience, the ‘being-in-place’. With an auto-ethnographic focus and a phenomenological methodology, I respond materially to thoughts, feelings, and experiences that emerge from both fleeting encounters and more long-term emplacements. 

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OCA Creative Arts: Student Story, Tim Harbridge thumb

OCA Creative Arts: Student Story, Tim Harbridge

Studying BA (Hons) Creative Arts Unit 1.1 I wrote the following paragraph about ‘Place’. I have been pleased to re-visit these ideas throughout Stage 1 units to reconsider the notion of defining a place and, in doing so, changing its fundamental nature and purpose.

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