Fine Art Printmaking
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W140 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Brighton
UCAS Code: W140 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
Pass Access to HE Diploma with at least 45 credits at Level 3 of which 30 credits must be at Merit or above. Art and Design courses are preferred.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Must include at least three subjects at Higher Level.
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
or equivalent combination of grades.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
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 offer two other undergraduate courses within our fine art subject area:
Fine Art BA(Hons)
Fine Art Painting BA(Hons)
**TOP REASONS TO CHOOSE THIS COURSE**
- 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 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 program with the University of Nagoya, Japan.
Modules
Year 1
Studio Practice 1: Orientation
Studio Practice 2: Enquiry, Edition, Exhibition
Printmaking Technical Inductions
Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Introduction to Global Art Histories and Art Writing
Year 2
Professional Development
Studio Practice 3: Investigation, Experimentation, Public Exhibition and Engagement
Theories and Practices of Fine Art: Contexts and Specialisms
Diary Practice: Making Meaning in Times of Global Change
Final Year
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
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