Overview
Transform your creative practice by engaging with print media on our Masters's course at Cambridge School of Art. Work on your own projects using the latest techniques in our industry-standard facilities, and get invaluable experience of exhibiting, curating, and collaborating.
Additional Descriptions
- Access our specialist printmaking workshop with unique presses dating back 150 years
- Gain contacts and industry experience through our links with art organizations including Cambridge Original Printmakers and Curwen Print Study Centre
- Engage with debates about contemporary art practice with artists and staff
- Attend talks by visiting printmaking professionals and other guest lecturers
- Study in Cambridge, with its many galleries and exhibition spaces, just a quick train journey from London
Discover the vital contribution that printmaking has made to the language of contemporary art practice, and how recent technological advances have broadened its definition.
Much of your time will be spent independently researching and undertaking your own practice-based projects. You will receive technical inductions for the use of both traditional and emerging processes (including relief printing and intaglio, screenprint, lithography, photo-based and digital media) and be free to experiment with and combine, them in your creative work.
Throughout the course, you will have support from experienced print and fine art practitioners, and benefit from working in a supportive and critically informed art school. Our connection with the MA Printmaking course at Camberwell College of Art creates opportunities for exchange crits and gives you the chance to build networks with fellow artists. You will also get a window onto the professional art world through our visiting lecturers, field trips, and links to galleries.
Our series of workshops, tutorials, seminars, critiques, presentations, and lectures, will allow you to develop research skills that you will use on this course and in your future career. In addition, you will gain experience in other areas of professional practice including curating and critical writing.
Our links with local printmaking and art organizations, such as Cambridge Original Printmakers, the Curwen Print Study Centre, Aid & Abet, Changing Spaces, Wysing Arts Centre, and Cambridge Artworks, will give you the chance to take part in portfolio reviews, live projects, and professional exhibitions.
Careers
As well as preparing you for a successful career in creative practice, our course will equip you for many other roles. Our past students enjoy careers in further and higher education, professional print workshops, museum and gallery management, public art projects, artist in residence schemes, and fellowship opportunities, in the UK and overseas.
Or you might decide to continue on to a research degree, like our Ph.D. Fine Art.
Fortnightly lectures run by our Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) will give you a chance to hear artists and staff talk about their work, and engage in debates about art practice. Our recent speakers have included Phillip Allen, Juan Bolivar, Rebecca Fortnum, Danny Rolph, Hayley Newman, Günter Herbst, David Kefford, Cally Spooner, Tim Ellis, Andrew Grassie, Lilah Fowler, Jemima Brown, Caroline Wright, and Matthew Derbyshire.
Visiting printmaking professionals have included Katherine Jones, Stephen Chambers, Sean Rorke, Rebecca Salter, Penny Bre will, Mike Taylor, Kate Palmer, Jo Love, and Jane Dixon, Leo Brook, and Amanda Couch.
Your department and faculty
At Cambridge School of Art, we combine the traditions of our past with the possibilities afforded by the latest technologies.
Using our expertise and connections in Cambridge and beyond, we nurture creativity through experimentation and risk-taking to empower the makers and creators of the future.
Our academics excel at both practice and theory, making a real impact in their chosen fields, whether they are curating exhibitions, designing book covers, or photographing communities in Africa. They are also regularly published in catalogs, books, journals, and conference papers, their research classed as being of ‘international standing’, with some elements ‘world-leading, in the most recent Research Excellence Framework.
Specialist facilities
You will work in our fully-equipped print studios, including intaglio, screen, relief, litho, and photo print processes. Your studio teaching will take place in our print studio and MA Fine Art studios, which also act as lively hubs for our full- and part-time students in printmaking and fine art.
As a Cambridge School of Art student, you can also receive access and full training in all our industry-standard facilities, including 3D workshops, laser cutting facilities, large format digital printer, photography studios, and dark rooms, and computer suites for video production and digital imaging.
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