Under the headings in the menu will be all the work I'm doing for my BA(Hons) in Textiles at the OCA. I know it's unconventional to do an art degree while being a person who does art - maybe? But I am, after all, a person who apparently collects degrees so it makes perfect sense for me. 

This section of the site will be arranged in descending menu order by year of study, then module name, then module part number. Within those 'part number' categories will be all the log books and work in chronological order (not reverse chronological order like a blog​).

If you know exactly where you want to go, there are shortcut links here:
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FIRST YEAR 
A Textiles Vocabulary (Part One)

Aims and Objectives

The OCA's Textiles degree aims are:

• Widen access to education in textiles at undergraduate level through Open and Flexible Learning.
• Ensure students gain the traditional skills in textiles to form a solid foundation for further development.
• Provide an intellectually stimulating programme of study based on high quality study material and tutor support.
• Develop students’ creative capacities and their ability in interpretation and application.
• Develop students’ critical understanding of the theoretical and conceptual issues central to the practice of textiles and the social, historical and cultural context in which it is practiced.
• Provide an environment in which the student has the possibility of changing their view of the world and their interaction with it both visually and intellectually.
• Foster high-level ethical and professional standards and an awareness of the possibilities offered by existing and new developments in textiles to expand their application areas.
• To develop autonomous learners capable of applying intellectual and practical skills in a chosen area of textiles appropriate to employment, further study, or life-long learning.

Something that has stagnated in my practice over the last few years is the willingness to experiment, to push myself creatively. By undertaking this degree I'm hoping to regain some of that curiosity. I am looking forward to pushing myself to learn new skills and techniques and to see where this takes my thoughts about my own artistic and craft practice, and what kind of creative avenues this might open up.

I would like to learn how to apply the critical engagement I can apply to (ancient) historical material to my own work, and to other modern and historical art, and to write art history (perhaps thinking about how art and the ancient world intersect in ways that are less academic and more emotive or sensorial).

My overall aim for the degree is to push myself, to learn about myself, and to (learn to) produce work that provokes emotive and multisensory responses, and think about how I can develop a professional painting practice.