Work by Phil Battley BA Hons Painting Drawing and Printmaking Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021 In the Shadows 4

BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

Overview

We have an impressive roster of visiting artists and professionals who can give you the benefit of their industry experience. The programme has a strong network of industry contacts, such as art suppliers Winsor & Newton, Art Mill Gallery, who host yearly exhibitions with our students, and with Q-art, who frequently collaborate with students for their renowned Crit Club, most recently at Tate Modern. You will have the chance to show your work right from the beginning of your first year, in a professional exhibition open to the public, organised, curated and produced by your group. Our strong international connections also allow our students to take a semester of study with one of our partner institutions within Europe and North America, and in turn, we welcome overseas students from those institutions to join us in our studios, creating an exciting cultural exchange. Graduates can become:<ul><li>painters</li><li>drawing artists</li><li>visualisers</li><li>fine printmakers</li><li>studio-based artists</li><li>illustrators</li><li>art therapists</li><li>public artists</li><li>gallery owners</li><li>lecturers</li><li>teachers</li><li>arts entrepreneurs</li></ul>

Our Graduates

Nicky Harwood

Nicky is a printmaker based in Cornwall whose work is concerned with landscape, place and society’s relationship with disposable culture and the waste generated by it. Nicky graduated BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking at Arts University Plymouth in 2018, completing her Masters in Printmaking in 2020.During her studies, Nicky founded The Creative Gym CIC in 2018, a company facilitating artist led creative sessions focused on the enjoyment of making.Alongside her own practice, Nicky teaches art for wellbeing at Cornwall College as well as running community art projects and printmaking workshops.

Julie Ellis

Julie joined Arts University Plymouth as a mature student in 2012, completing her Extended BA (Hons) degree with First Class honours in 2016. During the final year of her degree at Arts University Plymouth, Julie became a resident at Ocean Studios in Royal William Yard, and spent four years there developing her practice alongside other artists and makers. Since graduating from Arts University Plymouth, Julie has had eleven solo shows and participated in around 25 group exhibitions. She has worked with Lympstone Manor, a Michelin star luxury hotel-restaurant led by Michael Caines, and sells work through galleries and art fairs around the country and abroad. Julie is a process-led painter whose work depicts landscapes derived from imagination, memories and feelings evoked by a 'place' which evolves cohesively with the materials she uses. "Places tell stories where fragmented fables and memories intermingle. I seek to describe the landscape which exists in actuality and memory. The work is ambiguous, anonymous with incomplete and open narratives, inviting the viewer to bring their own autobiographies and be transported by a desire to transcend to somewhere in the past. Suggestions of habitation appear in the light and structure of possible buildings or ruins where the painting becomes something tangible yet remains fleeting and unattainable." For more information please visit www.julieellisartist.co.uk

Diana Forrest

Diana Forrest, also known as Gazelle St Ives, is a graduate of BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking, successfully completing the course in 2021. She also completed her Masters in Painting with the university in 2023. Diana’s practice is about painting with intuition, passion, colour, imagination and inspiration. Her inspirations include Mark Rothko and the philosophies of Nietzsche and Plato. Diana is based in St Ives and won the Brownston Gallery’s Fresh Talent Award in 2021.