BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

Overview

Throughout your studies, you will have the opportunity to develop the key professional, transferable skills for employability in the creative industries and work in partnership with other sectors locally, nationally or internationally.

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 Ellis Graduated from Arts University Plymouth in 2016 with a BA (Hons) in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking. She has been a resident artist at Ocean Studios since the start of her third year in October 2015 and has a series of solo shows and exhibitions set for the New Year the first taking place at Ocean Studios Gallery in January 2017. 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 imcomplete and open narritives, 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." In Julie's solo show Earth & Air: The Eposodic Memory (January 20 - February 17, 2017) visitors will be invited to gain an interesting insight into Julies practice as she will be painting live within the exhitibiton every Saturday. "I make the work spontaneously and intuitively creating enigmatic and ambiguous compositions where visual information is subtracted and abstracted allowing the process to inform the work. The tactile nature of oil paint induces an intuitive, compelling and sensitive response to the materials, producing fluid and organic looking imagery and forms." Julie was invited to exhibit at Delamore Arts in May 2017 and Leeds later on the Spring of 2017, plus is involved in an exciting collaborative exhibition with other artists at The Cube Gallery in Plymouth. 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.

BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking

Our Graduates

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