Fine Art Printmaking BA (Hons)

This rare specialist degree blends traditional printmaking with contemporary image-making processes, including drawing, collage, photography, artists’ books, letterpress and digital imaging. <br/><br/>You will be working in one of the UKs best-equipped printmaking workshops, where youll be able to explore etching, screen printing, lithography, relief, large-format digital print, letterpress, bookbinding, and traditional photography. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>We offer two other undergraduate courses within our fine art subject area:<br/>Fine Art BA(Hons)<br/>Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)<br/><br/>**TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE**<br/><br/><br/>- We allow you the space and give you the guidance to think through making, turning ideas into tangible creative outcomes.<br/><br/><br/>- 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.<br/><br/><br/>- You will be working in one of the UKs best-equipped printmaking workshops.<br/><br/><br/>- Lecturers are practising artists who bring a diverse range of skills and experience to your learning.<br/><br/><br/>- You will plan, organise and execute exhibitions of artwork for public audience.<br/><br/><br/>- We give you the tools to communicate ideas in visual, written and spoken forms.<br/><br/><br/>- Strong links with local arts communities provide volunteer and employment opportunities.<br/><br/><br/>- 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.<br/><br/><br/>- There is space to discuss, articulate and critically evaluate your own and others’ artwork.<br/><br/><br/>- 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.<br/><br/><br/>- At the end of your degree you exhibit a body of work in the university’s graduate show and graduating students often organise a self-funded show.<br/><br/><br/>- You have the opportunity to apply for an exchange program with the University of Nagoya, Japan.<br/>