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Posted: 05/01/23 11:18 | 3 Comments

Sometimes Keeping up Momentum events develop a momentum of their own. This post describes our experience of working together, with a hope that this will inspire others to do the same. The four of us (from the Drawing, Creative Arts, Painting and Photography pathways) met in January at Keeping up Momentum – Pushing the Envelope as Team Transmit and enjoyed the experience enough to decide to continue after the workshop.

Season’s Greetings & A Year in Review

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Posted: 21/12/22 01:19 | 2 Comments

Everything that has been achieved this year is down to all of the amazing people at OCA who have repeatedly gone above and beyond in order to make things happen, whether it be running programmes, supporting students, or managing the transfer to The OU.

Open Ears – new podcast from the Open College of the Arts

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Posted: 20/12/22 04:10 | 1 Comments

In Open Ears we investigate and celebrate the massive diversity of music making which exists in our world today by talking with musicians from a wide range of artistic traditions and practices about their musical lives, and how they’ve navigated through their careers.

Study event review: Interior Design & Garden Design

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Posted: 17/11/22 09:54 | 2 Comments

On a sunny Saturday in November a group of Interior Design and Garden Design students and tutors met up at the Royal Festival Hall on Londons’ SouthBank. It was a long anticipated event (delayed somewhat by Covid) that some had been looking forward to for two years!

Study event review: Contemporary Painting Prize

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Posted: 27/10/22 04:27 | 0 Comments

A small but dedicated group of painters spent a drizzly afternoon in Huddersfield looking at the latest instalment of the Contemporary British Painting Prize, before it moves on to Thames Side Studios in London.

Study event review: London, September 22

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Posted: 29/09/22 11:48 | 3 Comments

OCA student Dhama reviews a recent study event in London to two OCA student degree shows.

Tutor news: Hayley Lock

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Posted: 14/03/22 10:34 | 0 Comments

OCA tutor Hayley Lock has curated a new show in London – Frequencies (for healing) – open now until mid June.

Study event review: Nathan Eastwood’s studio

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Posted: 08/03/22 11:17 | 1 Comments

After an excellent visit to Eddie’s ‘End of Degree Show’ in the morning at Halpern Gallery, Nucleus Arts Centre, we walked along Chatham High St to Nathan Eastwood’s studio at Sun Pier House. Nathan greeted us at the entrance and showed us to his shared studio space on the second floor. The information sheet Nathan kindly provided explained his artistic journey from MA to current practice.

Study event review: ‘Collocations – pain & trauma’, Chatham Kent.

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Posted: 08/03/22 10:56 | 7 Comments

This was a study event with a big difference for me to all the others I have attended with OCA – instead of looking at other artist’s work, in this instance, I was the subject of the study visit.

Study event review: Chain Reaction

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Posted: 19/11/21 09:47 | 1 Comments

OCA student Kate Nicholson reviews her experience of a recent study event.

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