SCHOOL OF ARTS + MEDIA SCHOOL OF DESIGN + COMMUNICA- 1 TION SCHOOL OF CRITICAL + CULTURAL STUDIES MAKING AN APPLICATION A bursary that you won’t have to pay back: Your accommodation guaranteed: If you’re a home (UK) student, you’ll be As a first year student you are guaranteed eligible to receive financial support from Halls of Residence accommodation within the us throughout your studies to help cover city, close to our campus. We work with Host programme and travel costs. As it’s a and Clever Student Lets to ensure you can bursary, you won’t have to pay it back choose suitable accommodation close to our and you’ll still have access to other funds campus that suits your budget. and bursaries if you need them. For more information please see our website. OPEN DAYS AND INTERVIEWS Our Open Days are a chance for you and your to attend in January and February, but we friends or family to visit Plymouth, meet and can see you whenever you feel ready. For chat with our friendly programme leaders advice on what we are looking for in terms of and admissions staff, tour our studios and motivation and creative potential, see p4 in facilities, visit student accommodation and our How It Works guide. discuss the best study options for you. Worried about travel costs or already attended Book your place at plymouthart.ac.uk/opendays an Open Day? We can also set up an online and we’ll send travel offers, recommendations or telephone interview. You’ll always be for hotels, and details of workshops and alumni interviewed by a subject expert who will speakers in advance. You’re also welcome to review your digital portfolio in advance. turn up on the day. For more details contact: Interviews [email protected] Our face-to-face interviews take place throughout the year. Most applicants choose Follow us Contact Details Sign up to receive our regular newsletter and Plymouth College of Art invites to our artist talks, gallery openings, Tavistock Place student exhibitions and more: Plymouth Devon, PL4 8AT plymouthart.ac.uk United Kingdom PlymouthCollegeOfArt PlymouthArt +44 (0)1752 203434 PlymouthCollegeOfArt [email protected] PlymouthCoA Our prospectus gives you a picture of what it is like to study at the college and a guide to fees and entry requirements at the time of printing in February 2019 for 2020/21 entry. Always refer to our website for up-to-date and detailed fee and course information. 2 Section 3 Undergraduate Prospectus 2020/21 CONTENTS ABOUT 8 What’s your proposition? 24 UAL Foundation Diploma 10 Don’t just make - Live Make in Art & Design 12 The facts 26 BA (Hons) with Foundation Year 14 Plymouth: a city of creativity 16 Find your inspiration US 20 Talking glass with Renovat 30 Space to make 32 Fab Lab Plymouth 33 Fabric Lab 34 Imprint Lab 35 Material Lab 36 Multimedia Lab LABS 37 Learning Lab 40 We have a view on the world 42 School of Arts + Media 44 Talking photography with Suki 52 School of Design + Communication 54 Taking design with Peter 58 School of Critical + Cultural Studies 60 Postgraduate studies 62 Artists as teachers: Huma Mulji SCHOOLS 5 BEYOND BA 68 Making learning 74 The Gallery 76 Into industry 80 Collaborators 82 Talking fashion with Penny 90 International horizons 94 Meet the graduates STUDY 98 Acknowledgements HOW IT 2 How it works - a simple guide 16 Students’ Union 4 What we’re looking for 17 Getting here 6 How to apply 22 Contact us Contents 8 What it costs 10 Making living easy 14 International students WORKS 4 Undergraduate Prospectus 2020/21 ABOUT US 6 About Us 7 Undergraduate Prospectus 2020/21 WHAT’S YOUR PROPOSITION? Welcome to Plymouth College of Art, an Our work is as global as it is local, inviting You will work alongside tutors and Because we know that your identity as an independent university-sector art school purposeful partnership and opportunities technicians who are not only experienced artist or designer will come from the horizon, run by artists and designers for artists and for our students within our inner-city educators but highly engaged in the UK not from the boundary line. Your task is to designers, widely regarded as a dynamic neighbourhood, with our global partner creative industries. One-in-eleven jobs are go out into the world in order to discover who catalyst for creative learning and social justice. universities and Erasmus locations, and as now in the creative industries, which in you are. This is the journey of your life, as far afield as Shanghai’s International Art 2016 contributed £101.5bn in GVA to the well as your creative practice, an adventure Our proposition is quite simply that making City project (SIAC), on which the college has UK economy. It is the UK’s fastest-growing that begins here. is as important as reading and writing, as Advisory Board membership. industrial sector, increasing by almost 45% science and maths, and that the purpose between 2010 and 2016, and growing by Plymouth College of Art may not be for of learning is inseparable from that of living As a student it is your energy that interests 7.6% in 2015-16 (more than twice the 3.5% everyone. But it is for anyone who shares our your life. This is a place for making things, us and that we work with here: the emerging growth rate for the UK economy as a whole). values and interests in making and thinking. for making things happen, and for making creative focus of your individual path within In fact, the UK’s creative industries are now Join the movement! a difference. A place of agency. We understand a specialist learning environment of industry- worth more than the automotive, aerospace, that art students are instinctive activists and standard studios and workshops in which your oil and gas, and life sciences sectors collaborators, keen to explore and develop work can truly flourish. combined, and that value is estimated to their creative practice through inquiry in social increase to £130 billion by 2025. Jobs in Professor Andrew Brewerton MA (Cantab) and commercial context. the creative industries, regarded as far more Principal & Chief Executive “Space does not create energy, energy resilient to future automation than those ajbrewerton In 2013 we established a trans-generational creates space.” in other employment sectors, increased by progressive continuum of creative learning 25.4% against a national average of 7.6% from age three to postgraduate level study from 2011-16. with the founding of the Plymouth School Our working environment is widely regarded of Creative Arts in a RIBA and AJ100 award- as one of the richest and most diverse Great news, no doubt. But you know – winning building – The Red House. In 2017 ecosystems of materials, technologies, and we know – that’s not why you’re here. the college was awarded the Social Enterprise processes, practices, art forms and ideas Gold Mark for its systemic commitment that you will find in the form of an art You’re here because you have a calling to community engagement, and in 2018 school. At a time when others are narrowing for creative practice in art, craft, design we created Makers HQ, a fully commercial the range and ecology of their learning and media, and your creative path as fashion manufacturing business with a strong infrastructure, we see it as the natural habitat an artist, designer and maker will lead social enterprise ethos, as a Community of artists and designers and makers, and you into a global market. That is why in Interest Company (CIC) in partnership with that’s why in recent years we have invested 2020, the year in which our city marks Millfields Trust. more than £12 million in both digital and the 400th anniversary of The Mayflower’s analogue dimensions. voyage to America in 1620, Plymouth College of Art will be engaging more than We do this because we know that the ever with the horizon, in every direction, space of learning either offers or withdraws across Europe, North America and China. the possibility of learning, and that there Why the key themes of the horizon – is a kind of creative intelligence, aesthetic human migration, place-making and trans- sensibility and cognitive method that you will generational growth and prosperity – feel only ever acquire at first-hand, in live contact so close to home. with materials and processes. 8 About Us 9 An international experience DON’T JUST MAKE – LIVE MAKE Any history of Plymouth has to include the horizon. We are an international art college, Creativity doesn’t just happen in the studio, workshop or darkroom. It’s a way of life. A welcoming students from around the world lot has changed here since we started out over 160 years ago, but this simple equation of to share ideas and practice, and we encourage making and living still shapes everything we do. our students to explore global opportunities and horizons. We use our onsite exhibition We collaborate it is here because it’s stood the test of time, space, The Gallery, to showcase international We’re an independent, university sector art like our beautiful printmaking presses – still creative artists, and we welcome guest school with an internationally distinctive irreplaceable despite traditional roots. lecturers from overseas at every opportunity, identity. Here you’ll find fashion designers, as well as curating, publishing and exhibiting ceramicists, games designers, fine artists Live what you do abroad ourselves, and arranging exchange and photographers, all sharing facilities We believe that contemporary arts practice Over 160 years of creativity programmes with our partners overseas.