Research & Knowledge Exchange Repository
Arts University Plymouth’s research community benefits from an unique environment dedicated to practice-led creative inquiry within a world-class suite of material and digital resources which provide evolving opportunities for original scholarship and innovative outputs.
Artificialia is a practice-led exploration of mineral collections, reinterpreting historical artefacts through sculpture, print, and objects to examine authenticity, heritage, and contemporary display practices.
In 2023, Ocean at The Levinsky Gallery brought together science and creativity through commissioned works exploring Drake’s Island, Eddystone Lighthouse, and Plymouth Sound’s underwater world.
Group exhibition piece featuring twenty-one cardboard rocks referencing 19th-century Pulhamite. Mailed to MIRROR, Plymouth to form the Wall of Wonder, each bears postal marks, travel traces and firework-scorched remnants from earlier displays.
A workshop that poses a troublesome future before imagining fantastic solutions through the playful invention of rituals, folk tales, artefacts and idols.
The Thinking through Making workshop seeks to harness the power of play & imagination as a means to approach and conceptualise global challenges.
This case study of teaching practice seeks to harness the potential of curiosity, play and imagination as a means to approach and conceptualise global challenges.