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Student stories: Ange Mullins
Posted: 19/07/23 09:40 |
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I’m Ange, a Creative Arts student, and I’m within touching distance of the finishing line after many years of study with OCA. I began in about 2008, although I can’t now recall exactly when I signed up with what was then a very different OCA. I joined purely as a means to learn more about ‘art’, a promise validated with a certificate of completion at the end, along with a vague suggestion to have work assessed; little did I realise that my journey would culminate with a BA (Hons) Creative Arts Degree.
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Student work: Creative Arts
Posted: 18/07/23 09:43 |
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As a tutor I find the exciting challenge is how students can then be encouraged to combine, apply, and adapt these skills as they start to build and test their own interdisciplinary approach inside the unit supported by the course materials. Rachael Barns has recently completed 1.2 and her work is an excellent example of how skills can be combined and adapted to produce Creative work
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Department stories: Interior Design
Posted: 17/07/23 09:31 |
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The Architecture Room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has been curated this year by architect Peter Barber. The work on display shows enormous variety in approaches to spatial model making, and underlines the necessity of using this hands-on physical method of design development as a way of experimenting freely and creatively.
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OCA’s Online Degree Show Showcase 2023
Posted: 14/07/23 12:39 |
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Welcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 22/23 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
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Department stories: Garden Design
Posted: 14/07/23 09:05 |
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One of the earlier projects in the first unit involved completing exercises in observational drawing. I recently asked students who had completed Unit 1.1 to send me some of their more recent sketches to see how they have developed their sketching skills.
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Student stories: Nuala Mahon
Posted: 14/04/23 01:48 |
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I have arrived at the finishing line of the long adventure that is (or was) the OCA degree process. I started my journey in November 2015 and submitted for my final assessment in January 2023 and to my great surprise I am now the holder of a BA(Hons) in photography.
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