The aim of the Collective is to provide a mutually supportive environment which will continue to provide inspiration and impetus post-OCA study. It is open to all students on the Painting, Drawing, and Fine Art pathways who have recently graduated or expect to complete their final year studies within the next 12 months.
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I’m Ange, a Creative Arts student, and I’m within touching distance of the finishing line after many years of study with OCA. I began in about 2008, although I can’t now recall exactly when I signed up with what was then a very different OCA. I joined purely as a means to learn more about ‘art’, a promise validated with a certificate of completion at the end, along with a vague suggestion to have work assessed; little did I realise that my journey would culminate with a BA (Hons) Creative Arts Degree.
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As a tutor I find the exciting challenge is how students can then be encouraged to combine, apply, and adapt these skills as they start to build and test their own interdisciplinary approach inside the unit supported by the course materials. Rachael Barns has recently completed 1.2 and her work is an excellent example of how skills can be combined and adapted to produce Creative work
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The Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been curated this year by architect Peter Barber. The work on display shows enormous variety in approaches to spatial model making, and underlines the necessity of using this hands-on physical method of design development as a way of experimenting freely and creatively.
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 22/23 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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Join OCA student Sue Parr for her exhibition in Eype Centre for the Arts, nr Bridport on Saturday 29th July 2023 at 11am for an artist talk and live performance.
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I am delighted to launch this exhibition; Explorations in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, and Technology; at The Best Little Virtual Gallery hosted by Artsteps. As a peer critique group, we have been meeting monthly on Zoom to present and discuss our work and support each other through what is a very long period of study with many ups and downs.
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Online studying can be a lonely experience. The Garden Design Students have an amazing WhatsApp group with advice and encouragement a plenty, but nothing beats getting together and meeting in person. A Student meet up was organised for the last May Bank Holiday, somewhere in the middle of everyone’s home towns.
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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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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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