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Tutor news: Hayley Lock

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.

OCA Fine Art: Call and Response

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Posted: 15/11/21 09:31 | 0 Comments

In March this year I was asked to host the first Call and Response session as part of BA (Hons) Fine Art group work, to look at different venues and collections around the world that were perhaps lesser known in relation to the different degree programmes offered at the OCA.

A trip to the 2021 London Design Festival

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Posted: 12/11/21 09:01 | 2 Comments

In late September 2021 a small group of OCA Interior Design students met to visit the London Design Festival together. London Design Festival is an annual event that celebrates, and promotes, London as the design capital of the world. An ambitious task, and certainly some of the projects and installations on display were very impressive, but is London the design capital of the world? We spoke with two of the students who went, to see what they thought of the festival.

OCA Student Association study event: Caroline Cardus, Artist’s talk

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Posted: 11/08/21 04:06 | 0 Comments

OCA students are invited to join artist Caroline Cardus via zoom on Sunday 19 September 2021 at 2pm.

OCA East of England study event: Investigating Place

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Posted: 02/07/21 09:50 | 0 Comments

Join OCA tutor Clare Wilson on 31 July.

Culinary tools and notational drawing / Eating space and drawing eating

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Posted: 30/06/21 09:14 | 3 Comments

There is value in exploring food within interior design because we can use this to engage our audiences and help them to understand our design intentions. Food isn’t the only thing that we all have in common, but it is a universal language of ingredients, processes and tools that we can all understand.

Student Association study event: Visual Art and Text

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Posted: 28/06/21 09:47 | 0 Comments

Join Bryan Eccleshall for two workshops (each two hours long) to explore how text has been used in visual art and to develop your own way of doing it.

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