Printmaking is a department that thrives on hybridity. This year’s graduates have again re-invented the expanded field of print.

Students work in a diverse range of media, and through making and discussion create an environment where the centrality of print in contemporary culture can be explored. The inventiveness and plethora of skills of our graduates equips them with the means to thrive as professional artists. The necessity of collaboration and creatively responding to the challenges and opportunities of a changing cultural and technological environment is integral to the philosophy of the course.

All 23 graduating students contributed to a major collaborative project with the Royal Shakespeare Company, currently showing at the newly opened theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. To accompany their show, they have compiled a publication, The Future Begins Here at 1.45, a collection of imagined works to be realised in the future, with a text based on discussions with these 23 artists by Sacha Craddock, Mark Leckey and Jo Stockham.