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MA Fine Art: Reflections
Posted: 05/12/25 09:18 |
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Completing a degree course is not only a significant achievement, it is also a point that marks a shift from study to new ventures and possibilities. MA Fine Art students Vivi Consta, Shelley Lafferty, Debbie New, Michelle Johnson and Yvonne Pethulis are that this exciting juncture, having graduated earlier in 2025. Now that some weeks have passed, I asked them to reflect on their MA Exhibition and any plans they have for the future.
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Making Meaning: The Journey Through MA Fine Art at OCA
Posted: 14/11/25 09:44 |
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In September 2025, a cohort of internationally based OCA students completed their MA Fine Art degree. Over a period of two years, they have studied together, engaging in various forms of learning, including critiques, discussions, presentations, lectures, and interactive workshops.
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OCA MA Fine Art: In conversation with Blair Maule
Posted: 19/06/24 03:52 |
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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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OCA MA Fine Art: In conversation with Riette van Rensburg
Posted: 26/04/24 09:59 |
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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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Student stories – Jane Murdock
Posted: 06/10/22 10:42 |
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The grant, by enabling the partaking of this exhibition, has produced some long-term affects including personally increasing my confidence in exhibiting and engaging with an audience directly but also an understanding knowing that the subject matter is one that is of societal and cultural interest and needs to be continued.
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Is your house on fire, Clark?
Posted: 14/12/18 12:18 |
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Whether you’re a current student coming to the end of your studies, or are an art practitioner looking to gain a postgraduate qualification, then our award winning MA Fine Art degree programme may be the Christmas gift that Santa nearly forgot.
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Staying Connected- A Summer project by MA Fine Art Cohort 2016
Posted: 25/09/18 09:32 |
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As a group we decided it would be a good idea to do something over the summer to stay in touch with each other. We wanted to participate in a project together that befitted how we communicate as a distance learning group of individuals, all living in different parts of the world, digitally connected.
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Confessions of an art student: Sustaining practice
Posted: 02/08/18 09:18 |
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And when someone in the future asks you to talk about sustaining your practice, you are OBVIOUSLY going to say YES, not just because you have anxiety issues about letting people down… but because you have made so much damn work you have no space in your house anymore: that is ‘sustained as hell!’
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United nations of the art world
Posted: 15/06/17 09:20 |
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I was about to start a three-year academic commitment. In applying to be part of the Open College of the Arts 2014 cohort for Europe’s first distance part time Masters in Fine Art, I had signed up to deadlines and being a student again: a proper one (not the kind who says they are a ‘student of life’ and winks in an alarming way). I’d have an NUS card, discounts in Top Shop and more two-for-one pizzas than I could ever consume . What else would I learn? What had I to gain?
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The Eleven MA Fine Art degree show
Posted: 09/06/16 03:34 |
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The degree show of the 2013 cohort of MA Fine Art students opens to the public next week at The Civic, Barnsley, bringing together work created during three years of international collaboration. From England, Asia, Mauritius, Oman, Scotland, Spain and the USA, the artists are coming together for the first time in the real world to exhibit in South Yorkshire.
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