Drawing Department 2023 Assessment Showcase
As Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Drawing Degree I am really pleased to share a showcase of work produced by Drawing undergraduates during 2023.
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Skip NavigationAs Programme Leader for the BA (Hons) Drawing Degree I am really pleased to share a showcase of work produced by Drawing undergraduates during 2023.
Read MoreWith assessment events held regularly three times a year, many of you will be familiar with what happens once you have completed the final assignment of your unit. But you might not know what happens in between the point that OCA staff have assessed your work, and the day that the confirmed result comes to you. Our current external examiner agreed to answer a few questions to throw some light on her role, what she most enjoys about being an external examiner with us at OCA, and whether she has any hints and tips for you as Interior Design students going forward for assessment.
Read MoreOCA Photography Program Leader Dan Robinson caught up with Julia McLean about her experience on OCA’s short course Investigating Place with Pyschogeography
Read MoreThe Creative Arts Showcase is now in its third year and is an end of academic year presentation from our students. We thank all our students who chose to participate and for their enthusiasm in putting forward their work this year.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreAs 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
Read MoreWelcome to our online Degree Show Showcase 22/23 where we are celebrating a number of our graduates from across six of our degree programmes.
Read MoreOne 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.
Read MoreThis blog post introduces the production of a creative archive by ECA student Tim Harbridge. Tim’s Box Concert archive demonstrates an excellent and engaging use of combined methods across film, audio, physical objects, and installation.
Read MoreJoin OCA student Sue Parr for her exhibition in Eype Centre for the Arts, nr Bridport on Saturday 29th July 2023 at 11am for an artist talk and live performance.
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