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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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Explore our city-centre campus and surrounding local area by browsing our library of 360-degree virtual tours. Start with a bird’s eye view or select a studio highlight.

Virtual Tours

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Our students enjoy unrivalled access to specialist facilities in an interdisciplinary environment that encourages you to explore an array of mediums.

Illustration Studios

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Our city-centre campus is a thriving creative hub of collaboration and innovation, thinking and making.

Aerial View

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Founded in 1856, step into our independent specialist arts university and start exploring the studios and workshops that make up this creative hub of collaboration.

Outside Entrance

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With the north-west facing windows allowing sunlight to stream into the room, The Refectory is a great place to grab lunch, chat about group work with your coursemates, or just chill out between lectures.

The Refectory

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The Students’ Union has its own social space and bar area for students to chill-out during the day and to host or participate in events and activities during the evening.

Students' Union

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Our Animation Studio is well equipped with 25 x PC Computer Workstations with 4K monitors, Dragonframe Animation Digital Compositing Software and the full Adobe Creative Suite.

Animation Studios

Our open-plan, spacious Ceramics Studio has large windows providing plenty of natural light to work in.

Ceramics Studio

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Our Costume Workshop and state-of-the-art facilities see students develop costumes, wearable props and prosthetics, using textiles, plastics, wood, metals, digital fabrication, and 3D making.

Costume Workshop

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From material innovation to pattern-cutting and styling, fashion is one of the largest employers of all the UK’s industries. Challenge the future of clothing construction in our professionally-kitted Fashion Studios.

Fashion Studios

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Our multi-functional Film Studio is open to all students and is equipped with a green screen infinity cove, a range of coloramas, and DMX continuous lighting making it ideal for moving image.

Film Studio

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Home to our BA (Hons) Fine Art students and a stone's throw away from our Tavistock Place campus, Studio 11 is a contemporary, double height, open-plan building that was designed based on the needs of fine art students.

Studio 11

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Bring your characters and concepts to life in our specialist gaming studio.

Game Arts Studio

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Our purpose-built, spacious and light glass workshop is dedicated to the teaching of hot and cold glass processes.

Glass Workshop

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Our print studios carry 32.5 metres of printing tables, a superbly equipped dye laboratory and a range of state-of-the-art digital printers and scanners, enabling you to sample fabrics with immediate turnaround.

Textile Studios

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The Jewellery Workshop is for students wanting to make jewellery or work with small-scale metals. The studio is also one of the few in the UK where students are able to learn and practice lost-wax casting.

Jewellery Workshop

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The Imprint Lab is the only 2D printing and mark making workshop in the South West to offer modern processes such as screen printing alongside traditional printmaking processes, in addition to typesetting and bookmaking in one facility.

Imprint Lab

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The Equipment Resource Centre (ERC) is our hub of media resources - and it's all free to hire.

Equipment Resource Centre

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Fab Lab Plymouth, part of a network of over 1,000 official Fab Labs worldwide, is a digital fabrication laboratory that gives you the power to turn your ideas into reality.

Fab Lab Plymouth

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Catering to a variety of different skill sets, the 3D Wood and Plastics workshop is open to all students across a multitude of creative disciplines. Create almost anything, from CNC machined plywood furniture to bespoke stretchers and substrates for painting or from a turned wooden bowl to a vacuum-formed costume mask.

3D Wood & Plastics Workshop

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Our library is an enviable resource, with over 25,000 items comprising physical and digital resources including books, journals, DVDs, and subscriptions to over 130 printed publications.