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Student Story: OCA Painting, Chantelle Wilson
Posted: 27/08/26 11:56 |
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As Programme Leader for the Painting pathway, I am very pleased to introduce the work of painting student Chantelle Wilson who will be leaving us with a 2:1 BA (Hons) Painting after completing her final assessment event recently. I first met Chantelle when I taught her on her very first course with us at OCA in November 2015. Chantelle was the youngest student I had taught at OCA at that time.
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Interview with BA Creative Arts Student – Christin Penz
Posted: 27/08/26 10:13 |
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What I enjoyed most about Creative Arts 1.2 was the freedom to develop my own way of working. Rather than following one fixed path, the unit provided a framework that allowed me to focus on the themes, techniques, and materials that were most relevant to my own practice. I found that very liberating.
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Student Stories: Arunava Chatterjee
Posted: 23/07/26 11:22 |
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JISABOKE is an experimental spoken word and sound album that explores memory, identity, silence, empathy, emotional resilience, displacement, and belonging. It is a project that began with a simple question: what happens when music is not created only to be heard, but also to encourage people to pause, listen, reflect, and connect with their own experiences and those of others?
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Student Stories: Virginia Barrantes Fernandez
Posted: 03/07/26 09:03 |
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My practice explores how women and AFAB artists reclaim bodily agency through material, narrative and form. In my practice, I expose the violence embedded in idealised femininity, using humour, materiality, identity, feminist resistance, and objects to mediate trauma.
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Student Stories: Anthony Carey
Posted: 30/06/26 04:03 |
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Creative Arts Programme tutor Rachel Smith is in conversation with Stage 3 student Anthony Carey.
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Moving image in Visual Communications
Posted: 15/05/26 09:37 |
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In Vis Com we have had a significant uptake of students exploring moving image within their work, and as we are more than happy to encourage students to investigate and even go on to specialise in animation within their degree, we thought it would be beneficial to talk about the possibilities of animation within the BA Visual Communications pathway at OCA.
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