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Study event review: ‘Collocations – pain & trauma’, Chatham Kent.
Posted: 08/03/22 10:56 |
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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.
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Study event review: Chain Reaction
Posted: 19/11/21 09:47 |
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OCA student Kate Nicholson reviews her experience of a recent study event.
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OCA Fine Art: Call and Response
Posted: 15/11/21 09:31 |
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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.
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A trip to the 2021 London Design Festival
Posted: 12/11/21 09:01 |
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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.
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OCA Student Association study event: Caroline Cardus, Artist’s talk
Posted: 11/08/21 04:06 |
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OCA students are invited to join artist Caroline Cardus via zoom on Sunday 19 September 2021 at 2pm.
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OCA East of England study event: Investigating Place
Posted: 02/07/21 09:50 |
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Join OCA tutor Clare Wilson on 31 July.
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Culinary tools and notational drawing / Eating space and drawing eating
Posted: 30/06/21 09:14 |
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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.
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Student Association study event: Visual Art and Text
Posted: 28/06/21 09:47 |
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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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Interior Design: What is luxury?
Posted: 14/06/21 09:59 |
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Within interior design, there are definitely certain connotations when it comes to the idea of luxury. The most often association of luxury within interior design is expense. This can be realised in a variety of ways, such as the glitz and glamour of traditional palaces or in the solitary minimalism of contemporary spaces. But I wanted to recap and expand upon some of the ideas of luxury that were discussed by the group. Luxury can mean so many things to different perspectives.
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A fruitful feedback session
Posted: 10/06/21 09:38 |
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Some feedback can be seen as daunting, unpredictable, too long, too dominating and a little bit too nice. But it is up to you how you want to direct it; you have ownership and drive it in a way which suits you. What do students want from feedback sessions? Critique, direction, progress, ruthlessness, compliments?
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