Printmaking – (M.A.)

Our MA in Printmaking is designed for creative practitioners who wish to transform their visual practice through an engagement with print media. It offers the opportunity to extend and deepen your creative research within a supportive and critically informed environment. As a Masters student, you will formulate a creative proposal towards a sustained programme of visual print research. Our course is delivered through individual studio practice supported by one-to-one tutorials, workshops, seminars, presentations and lectures. Your individual practice will be developed through an engagement with critical and theoretical dialogue and supported by lectures, seminars and tutorials by specialist academic staff and leading professionals within the field. Critical theory is regarded as a means of reflecting upon and informing practice-based research, and represents 20% of the taught learning experience. Our course culminates in a final exhibition of work which provides both a professional benchmark and a platform for future career development.

Printmaking makes a vital contribution to the language of contemporary art practice. Advances in printmaking technology have broadened the definitions of the medium, enabling artists to combine traditional print processes with digital media towards a wide range of creative solutions. If you are new to print, we provide technical inductions for traditional and emerging print media, including relief printing and intaglio processes including photo etching, screenprint, photolithography and digital processes.

Our course is aimed at artists from a variety of creative disciplines who wish to expand their visual practice within a supportive and critically engaged environment.

Additional course information
Cambridge provides an ideal location to study printmaking at Masters level and offers a number of internationally recognised museums and galleries including The Fitzwilliam Museum, Kettle's Yard, and the Wysing Arts Centre.

Studio practice is reviewed within the light of key theoretical debates and supported by a programme of critical studies seminars. Professional engagement in the field of printmaking and related industries is embedded within all modules and supported by a strong profile of visiting lecturers to the programme.

The staff team

The pathway leader is Nick Devison. The course is also supported by a number of visiting specialists. Recent visitors to the course have included: Stephen Chambers, Artist Printmaker; Veronique, Chance, Video Installation, Printmaker; Terry Buckley, Book Artist; Sean Rorke, Artist Printmaker, Manager of Hot Bed Press; Sam Chatterton Dixon, Director of Flowers East Gallery, London; Rebecca Salter, Artist Painter and Printmaker; Penny Brewill, Artist Printmaker; Mike Taylor, Artist Printmaker and Director of Paupers Press, London; Kate Palmer, Artist Painter and Printmaker; Julia Farrer, Artist Painter Printmaker and Book Artist; Jo Love, Artist with a specialism in Digital Media; Jane Dixon, Artist Printmaker; Harriet Hedden, Artist Printmaker, Film-maker; David Ryan, Reader in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art.