graduate school directory 2011/12 - Camberwell College of Arts ...

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LOCAtiON: CAMBERWELL
DUrAtiON: fULL-TIME 1 YEAR
PART-TIME 2 YEARS
APPLY tO: CCW GRADUATE SCHOOL
DEADLiNE: 1 JULY 2012
AhrC DEADLiNE: 1 MARCH 2012
StArt DAtE: OCTOBER 2012
MA PRINTMAKING
(VISUAL ARTS)
CAMBERWELL COLLEGE Of ARTS
FiN tAYLOr, PAthWAY LEADEr: ‘Innovation is the
watchword on MA Printmaking at Camberwell.
We will encourage you to be experi mental and to
reflect on printmaking in its many contexts.
Above all, you will develop your practice and be
ready to choose from a variety of creative career
pathways.’
COUrSE CONtENt Camberwell College of
Arts is widely regarded as the place to study printmaking,
and our teaching and work are internationally
renowned. On the course, we explore
printmaking not only as a medium in its own
right, but in respect to its relationship with wider
contempo rary practices. We respond to current
debates about the role of skill and authorship
in the crea tion of artworks, and the notion of the
unique work of art.
Artists are using printmaking technologies in
more varied and experimental approaches than
ever before. So we’ve invested in both tradi-
tional and digital methods at Camberwell to help
you develop your ideas through print media.
And we also promote an innovative approach,
introducing you to all forms of autographic
print making. These include intaglio, lithographic
(plate and stone), relief print, screen printing,
letterpress and computer-generated processes.
Your time with us will be a chance for you to
develop your ideas and practice in new directions,
defined by your research projects.
KEY FACtS You will be encouraged to develop
technical skills, sharpen your critical and
contextual thinking, and widen your professional
knowledge, as well as exhibit work across the
CCW Graduate School and London. In recent
years, students have participated in symposiums
at the V&A and in talks with curators and
international artists. In addition, each year we
make visits to important print collections.
NExt StEPS When you finish the MA Printmaking
course, you will have a wide range of creative
career options open to you, for example
as a practising artist and freelance designer, or
perhaps in research.
Many of our graduates go on to teach in higher
education or establish successful print workshops,
such as Artichoke Printmaking and East London
Printmakers. Others work in editioning prints and
exhibit internationally and in the UK.
Recent graduates were selected for the International
Northern Print Biennale in Newcastle, and
showed work and won awards in the Postgrad-
uate Printmaking in London at Clifford Chance.
Others exhibited at Compton Verney and had
work purchased for the V&A Museum collection.
LOCAtiON: CAMBERWELL
DUrAtiON: fULL-TIME 1 YEAR
PART-TIME 2 YEARS
APPLY tO: CCW GRADUATE SCHOOL
DEADLiNE: 1 JULY 2012
AhrC DEADLiNE: 1 MARCH 2012
StArt DAtE: OCTOBER 2012
MA ILLUSTRATION
(VISUAL ARTS)
CAMBERWELL COLLEGE Of ARTS
JANEt WOOLLEY, PAthWAY LEADEr: ‘Illustration
in the 21st century demands strong voices,
entrepreneurial image makers who can tell their
own stories. This Camberwell course will take the
skills you already have and build upon them,
through your own personally ambitious project
and wider interaction with your artistic
community.’
COUrSE CONtENt Camberwell College of Arts
has a long tradition of imaginative illustrative art,
and MA Illustration builds on this strength.
Through a series of workshops, discussion groups
and group and one-on-one tutorials, you will
develop a proposal for an ambitious, engaging
project that will last the length of the course.
It will be a time to test out and implement your
critical and practical skills, as well as to con-
sider how your practice should develop and the
new directions you may choose to take.
Many of our students decide to participate
in external ventures, competitions or exhibitions,
and form their own discussion groups while
on the course. Students on MA Illustration also
find that they benefit from interaction with
other subjects. The course will help to you build
your research skills and offers enhanced
opportunities for networking and career development.
You will also be exposed to the shared
lecture programme and cross-course seminars
which draw upon the richness of the research
within the college and across the CCW Graduate
School.
KEY FACtS You will gain an insight into your
personal artistic ambitions and build knowledge
of professional practice on this course. This
will be helped by the discussions that you will
have with visiting practitioners, as well as by
the rich artistic environment you will experience
both within the college and across London.
You will have the chance for independent activities
too, including trips to illustration conventions
and Bologna Book Fair. On MA Illustration,
we also encourage you to take part in group
exhibitions, competitions and commissions.
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NExt StEPS When you leave us, your range of
creative destinations will be wide. Former students
have had a number of successes including
book contracts, and work on comic strips,
children’s books, and display windows for retail
outlets and offices. In recent years, graduates
have won awards in the Macmillan book competition
and have even created murals for the
Google headquarters.