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Student stories – Jane Murdock
Posted: 06/10/22 10:42 |
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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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Student exhibition: Beverley Williams
Posted: 30/09/22 10:14 |
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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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Study event review: London, September 22
Posted: 29/09/22 11:48 |
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OCA student Dhama reviews a recent study event in London to two OCA student degree shows.
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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Posted: 27/09/22 11:43 |
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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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A PDF-to-print zine as engagement for Creative Arts: Gesa Helms’ A/Folder: an instructive glossary
Posted: 12/08/22 09:16 |
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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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Tutor News: Farewell and thanks to Peter Lester
Posted: 10/08/22 09:33 |
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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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Goodbye and thank you to tutor Ilsa Brittain
Posted: 28/07/22 02:32 |
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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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OCA Degree Show Showcase 21/22
Posted: 25/07/22 10:54 |
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 21/22 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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Tutor news: Caroline Wright
Posted: 09/06/22 12:07 |
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Caroline, alongside others, worked on SPIRAL, a project that explored multi-sensory dimensions of materials with disabled people. They aimed to explore if creative approaches could intersect with the work of UCL researchers to bring new and stimulating experiences to people.
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Student stories: Geraldine Leahy, Artist talk
Posted: 09/06/22 10:35 |
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SYP student Geraldine Leahy recently held her solo Degree Show, Littoral Shift: A Coastal Terrain in Flux, in a beautiful restored and repurposed church in the seaside village of Rush, North County Dublin. She will present her artist’s talk on Wednesday 22nd of June at 6pm, to which you all OCA students are warmly invited.
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