The creative process and the editorial process are completely different things. When you are creating things, encourage the editorial part of your brain to take a nap, so you can work fearlessly, with no inhibitions. Then, when it is time to edit what you have done, make amendments, and focus on the detail, wake the editorial part of your brain back up.
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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.
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A big part of any spatial design study will be researching the designs that have come before. This could be as far-reaching as researching classical architecture or as close to home as exploring a new space that just opened around the corner.
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The grant, by enabling the partaking of this exhibition, has produced some long-term affects including personally increasing my confidence in exhibiting and engaging with an audience directly but also an understanding knowing that the subject matter is one that is of societal and cultural interest and needs to be continued.
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OCA Textiles Student Beverley Williams will be culminating her studies with an upcoming exhibition Linking the Circle at The Battle of Britain memorial in Folkstone. Beverley has studied with OCA for 10 years.
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OCA student Dhama reviews a recent study event in London to two OCA student degree shows.
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Last week I was lucky enough to have tickets for the Open House Festival, to pay a visit to what will be the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
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This blog explores a distributed and self-printed form of engagement in my recently completed Creative Arts practice. A/Folder: an instructive glossary is a downloadable PDF-to-print zine. Each zine offers a prompt, a set of instructions, a method to explore. I want to unpack a little what this form allows for in terms of engagement as key modality of Sustain your Practice, and, should you be interested, invite you along.
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After almost five years with OCA Graphic design Department, and many more in design education, notably Nottingham Trent University, as head of Masters Studies in Visual Communications, Peter Lester is to retire.
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As Programme Leader for the painting dept, I am pleased to be in conversation this month with artist and tutor Ilsa Brittian. Ilsa has worked for OCA since 2017. Ilsa is leaving us this month to focus her attention on her practice so I am taking the opportunity to have a conversation with her and to celebrate her significant contribution to OCA.
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