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Together we make, experiment and innovate. <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/apply">Apply now</a> to start studying at our specialist <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/pre-degree">Post-16 campus</a>, choose a <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses">BA (Hons) degree</a> with options available for <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/january-starts-and-distance-learning">January 2024</a> and <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate">September 2024</a> starts, or explore the <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate">Postgraduate courses</a> we have available.

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Undergraduate

Communication

Content Creation

Design

Digital Media

Fashion

Marketing

Media

Photography

Production

BA (Hons) Commercial Photography

D Borione Midsommar Print

Illustration

BA (Hons) Illustration

Textiles Natural Dye

Technologies

Interior Design

Printmaking

Technical

Textiles

BA (Hons) Textile Design

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Curation

Styling

BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling

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Jewellery

BA (Hons) Fashion Design

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BA (Hons) Photography

Rachel Hicks Ex BA cast concrete

3D Design

Animation

Ceramics

Costume

Craft

Education

Drawing

Film

Fine Art

Game Arts

Glass

Graphic Design

Painting

Publishing

Sound

Extended BA (Hons) Degree

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BA (Hons) Craft & Material Practices

Frog costume by Hannah Mc Arthur

BA (Hons) Costume Production

Katherine Hall real posthuman hours

BA (Hons) Fine Art

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BA (Hons) Film & Screen Arts

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BA (Hons) Animation & Games

Georgia Gadsby

BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Alex Lee

BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

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BA (Hons) Fashion Design (Jan 2024 Start)

Jake Williams BA Hons Illustration graduate class of 2017

BA (Hons) Illustration (Jan 2024 Start)

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BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing (Jan 2024 Start)

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BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling (Jan 2024 Start)

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BA (Hons) Commercial Photography (Jan 2024 Start)

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Jan 2024 Start)

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Postgraduate

MA Ceramics

Lottie Bond flatlay MA 2018

MA Printmaking

Eleanor Gooch

MA Jewellery

Art History

MA by Research

Laura Quinn 2

MA Glass

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Museum Studies

MA Museum Studies

From Water by Mary Trapp MA Fine Art

Master of Fine Art (MFA)

Becky Dodmancrop

MA Textile Design

CLOD by Cassandra Agazzi Brooks MA Painting

MA Fine Art

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Pre-Degree & Sixth Form

Critical & Cultural

UAL Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Filmmaking & Media Production

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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Photography

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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Art & Design

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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Fashion & Textiles

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UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Practice: Graphics, Illustration & Game Arts

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MA Visual Communication

Alan Braidford

MA Craft & Material Practices

Hannah Mumby

MA Illustration

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MA Drawing

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MA Painting

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MA Photography

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Short Courses and Masterclasses

Sustainable Glass Summer School

Distance learning CTA 3

Commercial Photography

Online Learning Taster Course (Dec 2023)

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Young Arts

National Saturday Club | 14-16yrs

Young Arts Photo by Max Styles

Young Arts | Saturday Club 2023/24

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Young Arts | Half Term Holiday Club (Oct 2023)

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Our Courses

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Creativity doesn’t just happen in the studio, workshop or darkroom. It’s a way of life. A lot has changed here since we started out over 160 years ago, but this simple equation of making and living still shapes everything we do.

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Our postgraduate programmes invite you to explore and refine your creative practice by critically engaging with the cultural, technological and economic changes that are shaping our world.

Early student work from Foundation Diploma in Art and Design students in the new Palace Studios

Our specialist post-16 study programmes offer ambitious creatives a dedicated art college campus within a UK award-winning university. Students develop their unique perspective, meet like minded people and gain the sought-after skills, confidence and UCAS points needed to progress to their university of choice or to the UK's booming creative industries.

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Arts University Plymouth’s Young Arts programme was established in 1988. Young Arts feature the university's renowned Saturday Arts Clubs and for over 30 years has worked to bridge the gap in arts provision for young people created by increasingly limited access to creative activity in schools.