The 19 Printmaking graduates have worked in a diverse range of media, and through making and discussion, throughout their two years in Printmaking, have explored the centrality of print in contemporary culture. Archives are plundered and invented, surfaces multiplied and expanded, images reprocessed or made sculptural, text becoming image and vice versa. The grubby matrix of a plate can inform recorded sound and moving image. The morphing of meaning in the stories, images and structures tumbled through these different registers is a constant source of debate.


The necessity of collaboration and creatively responding to the challenges and opportunities of a changing cultural and technological environment is integral to the philosophy of the course. This equips our students with the ability to improvise that is necessary to survive as a practising artist.


All 19 artists contributed to two collaborative projects: Casual Ties, a collection of prints including guest works by Clunie Reid, Faisal Abdu’Allah and Serena Korda and accompanied by texts from this years Critical Writing in Art & Design graduates. In addition they have compiled a publication, 23 Components for a Book, with contributions from Jonathan Allen, Eva Weinmayr and Nigel Rolfe.