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This rare specialist degree blends traditional printmaking with contemporary image-making processes, including drawing, collage, photography, artists’ books, letterpress and digital imaging.  

You will be working in one of the UK’s best-equipped printmaking workshops, where you’ll be able to explore etching, screen printing, lithography, relief, large-format digital print, letterpress, bookbinding, and traditional photography.  

There are opportunities to engage with local arts communities through schools, galleries and studios, and enhance your professional practice through exhibition visits and guest lectures.

• We allow you the space and give you the guidance to think through making, turning ideas into tangible creative outcomes.
• You will gain skills in working with a range of materials and processes, understanding that new discoveries can be made by engaging with materials and processes.
• You will be working in one of the UK’s best-equipped printmaking workshops.
• Lecturers are practising artists who bring a diverse range of skills and experience to your learning.
• You will plan, organise and execute exhibitions of artwork for public audience.
• We give you the tools to communicate ideas in visual, written and spoken forms.
• Strong links with local arts communities provide volunteer and employment opportunities.
• Over the course you will develop tenacity, resourcefulness, resilience and self-motivation, fundamental aspects of sustaining an art practice or working within the creative industries.
• There is space to discuss, articulate and critically evaluate your own and others artwork.
• You will graduate knowing how to develop professional proposal documents that communicate planned work in visual and text form and include ethical and health and safety considerations.
• At the end of your degree you will exhibit a body of work in the university’s graduate show and graduating students often organise a self-funded show.
• You have the opportunity to apply for an exchange programme with the University of Nagoya, Japan.