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Creative Arts in Conversation: Rachel Smith and Trine Wade

Posted: 28/07/25 09:52 | 2 Comments

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.

OCA Creative Arts: Student Story, Tim Harbridge

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Posted: 18/06/25 01:29 | 0 Comments

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.

Student Work: Trine Wade ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’

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Posted: 14/02/25 04:04 | 2 Comments

As part of my final unit in Stage 3, I staged an exhibition of my major project. Over four weekends in January 2025 I exhibited my work in a building adjacent to my house. Entitled ‘Hjemkomst – Returning Home’, the exhibition was the curation of a project I conducted in August 2024 when I brought my grandad home to a small coastal town in Norway.

Study event: St. Ives

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Posted: 01/02/19 09:02 | 1 Comments

This weekend workshop will be focused on a multidisciplinary approach to landscape and place. Students will create visual work in response to the previous day’s experiences through discussion and advice and explore ideas using creative materials including photography and collage. Each student will have an opportunity to display work in a pop up exhibition/crit.

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