Course summary

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. Fine Art Printmaking is part of a suite of Fine Art courses at Brighton alongside Fine Art and Fine Art Painting. Please see those entries for more information on those courses. 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.