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Updates from the Student Association TEL team

Posted: 26/11/20 09:50 | 3 Comments

Hello! My name is Dan Woodward, and I am the Deputy Lead representative of the Student Association. I am also one half of the TEL reps alongside Becky Holman. TEL, it’s a funny acronym isn’t it? TEL stands for Technology Enhanced Learning. What that means in real terms are the various tools and platforms used […]

OCA-North: Join the first event

OCASA student work study visit

Posted: 19/05/18 09:22 | 2 Comments

OCA tutor Andrew Conroy will be leading the OCA-North group’s first get together on the 2 June in Leeds at the Old Red Bus Station.

Study visit review: London group study day

OCASA sketchbook study event review study visit workshop

Posted: 07/05/18 09:57 | 1 Comments

Our practical session was centred on ideas generation and how to generate multiple visual experiments from a single starting point. Taking a crumpled piece of A4 paper as our subject, we first drew its form, then experimented with scale and composition.

Thames Valley group meeting with Jayne Taylor

OCASA study visits

Posted: 23/04/18 09:53 | 0 Comments

Join OCA tutor Jayne Taylor on the 16 June.

Cross-discipline drawing workshop

fine art OCASA Tutor

Posted: 17/04/18 09:09 | 11 Comments

I began the morning asking students what they thought drawing could be beyond the traditional skills they might have learnt. Some keywords emerged that acted as a guide for the exercises, including drawing as invention, play, process, action, memory, language, non-art, materials and generative.

Bookmaking workshop

OCASA workshop

Posted: 19/03/18 09:08 | 0 Comments

Join OCA tutor Polly Harvey on Saturday 19 May in Bordon, Hampshire.

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