One of the only specialist degrees of its kind, this course trains you in the traditions of printmaking and in contemporary image making processes, such as drawing, collage, photography, artists’ books, letterpress and digital image making.
We encourage creative exploration in a variety of visual forms, underpinned by intellectual inquiry, which leads to exciting, innovative practice.
You’ll be working in one of the UK’s best-equipped printmaking workshops, with facilities for etching, screen print, lithography, relief and large format digital print, letter press and bookbinding as well traditional wet based photography.
Our links with local arts communities provide opportunities for creative engagement in schools, galleries and studios. Visits to exhibitions and guest lectures from artists and those working in the creative industries will improve your understanding of professional practice.
You’ll have opportunities to exhibit your work and we have international links with the University of Nagoya, Japan, which runs an exchange programme available by competitive application
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Year 1
You will explore a variety of ways of working including investigating drawing in an expanded way, colour theory and ideas development. You’ll have theoretical lectures and seminars as well as technical inductions into all the main processes of printmaking (etching, lithography, screen, relief, Photoshop and Illustrator). You will be supported to develop research into interests and concerns that motivate you individually. You will also collaboratively plan a group exhibition and take part in a print edition project.
Modules
Studio Practice 1: Orientation
Studio Practice 2: Enquiry, Edition, Exhibition
Printmaking Technical Inductions
Introduction to Theories and Practices of Fine Art
Year 2
The second year is when you really begin to develop your work and your autonomy of practice, testing your ideas and research methodologies, and clarifying what aspects of printmaking you want to refine. The fine art exhibition, held in and around the university gallery, gives you the opportunity to exhibit your work with your peers from other disciplines. A public engagement module provides connectivity between studio and workshop activity, usually a school or an artists led project, and a professional working environment.
Modules
Artist Journal: Materiality of Practice, New Perspectives and Online Audiences
Studio Practice 3: Investigation, Experimentation, Public Exhibition and Engagement
Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Contexts and Specialism in a Post-digital World
Options*
Option module
*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability
Final year
In your third year the exploration of creative possibilities intensifies as you consolidate your interests in order to plan a resolved body of work for the graduate show. This is an exciting time when the insights and experience gained throughout the course come together to present undergraduate practice at its most inventive, thought-provoking and professional. There is also a focus on the development of your practice after undergraduate study and course has a proven track record of progression to respected masters level courses.
Modules
Studio Practice 4: Speculation and Integration
Studio Practice 5: Coherence and Syntheses – Degree Exhibition
Theories and Practice of Fine Art: Articulation of Your Critical Position
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
