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Maud Craigie Indications of Guilt pt 1 2020 FLAMIN Fellowship

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Critical & Cultural

Indications of Guilt, pt.1 examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement.

Maud Craigie: Indications of Guilt, Pt. 1 @ MIRROR

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If you are interested in exploring our state-of-the art campus facilities and workshops and are looking for a safe, personalised experience, we recommend booking a campus tour.

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Summer Shows

Work by Megan Cadwaladr BA Hons Fine Art Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

Studio 11

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Fine Art course exhibit their work at Studio 11 on Regent Street.

BA (Hons) Fine Art | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Josh Seal Extended BA at Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

The Warehouse

The 2021 graduating class from our Extended BA course exhibit their work at The Warehouse on Regent Street.

Extended BA | Summer Shows 2021

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Online

Open to Plymouth College of Art students and alumni, our Careers Symposium will see guest speakers share their expertise on a range of topics including publishing, teaching, self-employment, business start-ups and more.

Careers Symposium: The Creative Industries & Beyond

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Pre-Degree

Join our accommodation provider Host for a narrated virtual tour of Plymouth College of Art's local student halls and shared houses, including an overview of prices and locations to suit every budget.

Accommodation Tour and Q&A

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Ask our current students about life on campus, living in Plymouth, accommodation, student finance, health and wellbeing support, the Students' Union and more.

Student Q&A

Work by Jason Mcanuff BA Hons Ceramics and Glass at Plymouth College of Art class of 2021

Leadworks Plymouth

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) 3D Design Crafts and BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass courses exhibit their work at Leadworks in Plymouth.

BA (Hons) 3D Design Crafts & BA (Hons) Ceramics and Glass | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Phil Battley BA Hons Painting Drawing and Printmaking Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021 In the Shadows 4

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking course exhibit their work at Studio 11 on Regent Street.

BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Emily Gilbert BA Hons Textile Practices at Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

Royal William Yard

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Printed Textile Design & Surface Pattern and BA (Hons) Textile Practices courses exhibit their work at Plymouth's iconic Royal William Yard.

BA (Hons) Printed Textile Design & Surface Pattern and BA (Hons) Textile Practices  | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Lucy Jones BA Hons Film at Plymouth College of Art class of 2021

Plymouth Arts Cinema

The 2021 graduating classes from our BA (Hons) Film, BA (Hons) Digital Media Production, BA (Hons) Animation, BA (Hons) Game Arts and BA (Hons) Photography courses exhibit their work at Plymouth Arts Cinema in a digital showcase event.

Adapt 2021 | Summer Shows 2021

Standard Open Days2

Join us at our on-campus open day on Saturday 3rd July. Discover our state-of-the-art facilities, talk to expert staff and tour the local accommodation.

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Pre-Degree Campus

Find your future in post-16 creative study by attending our next Pre-Degree Open Day. Courses include UAL Level 3 Extended Diplomas, International Baccalaureate Career-related Programmes and Foundation Diplomas.

Pre-Degree Open Day

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Ocean Studios

Explore the work of our BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling Class of 2021 at their Summer Show event at Ocean Studios.

BA (Hons) Interior Design & Styling | Summer Shows 2021

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Join our recruitment team for practical tips on the kind of things to include in your portfolio and how to present it in a digital format, ensuring it is interview ready.

Portfolio and Interview Top Tips

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The Market Hall

One year after graduating, our class of 2020 exhibit their work in one of Europe's most exciting new venues, The Market Hall in Devonport.

Far From Near, PCA 2020 Graduates One Year On | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Jess Allibon BA Hons Commercial Photography at Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Commercial Photography for Fashion, Advertising & Editorial course exhibit their work at Studio 11 on Regent Street.

BA (Hons) Commercial Photography | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Isabelle Mercier BA Hons Costume Production at Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Costume Production & Associated Crafts course exhibit their work at The Warehouse on Regent Street.

BA (Hons) Costume Production & Associated Crafts | Summer Shows 2021

Work by Emily Skinner BA Hons Fashion Media and Marketing at Plymouth College of Art Class of 2021

The 2021 graduating class from our BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing course exhibit their work at The Warehouse on Regent Street.

BA (Hons) Fashion Media & Marketing | Summer Shows 2021

Standard Open Days1

Visit our creative campus in person and tour our state-of-the-art facilities. Discover how Plymouth College of Art students are pushing the boundaries in art, design and digital media.

Campus Experience Day

Standard Open Days4

Join us at our Clearing Online Open Event aimed at anyone who is interested in applying, or who has applied, to Plymouth College of Art through Clearing.

Clearing Drop-In

Film Screening

Mohini Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost explores the rich history of shipwrecks in the historic naval port city of Plymouth and their relation to empire, slavery and indenture.

Mohini Chandra: Paradise Lost @ MIRROR

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Using tufting, embroidery and tapestry weaving to co-create textile artworks using her Tea Leaf, Tasseography Textiles generative process, Becky concludes two years of making with this Arts Council England funded exhibition.

Becky Dodman Wainwright: Tasseography Textiles

Psst... Some areas of our new website are yet to be published as we finalise content for launch. It’s almost time to view this content but for now, we recommend visiting our <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/research">Research</a> page and social media for the latest news.
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Integrity & Ethics

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Our Research, Scholarship and Practice Activities gain national and international attention. Find out about our past and present research events and symposiums.

Events & Conferences

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Research Groups

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Connect with the research-active staff that make up our college's outstanding academic expertise.

Research Staff

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Research and Scholarship at Plymouth College of Art is involved externally on regional, national and international levels. Find out about the research projects supported by or carried out by staff and students of the college.

Supported Projects

Our research reflects the vision, ethos, purpose &amp; values of the college as a unique specialist HEI and community of practice-led, academically robust learning opportunities that articulate with social, cultural and economic needs of Plymouth, the creative industries in the South West region, and the wider UK creative economy.

Our research ambitions are supported through the Research Engagement and Impact Strategy 2018-2023, whose principle objectives are to: <ul><li>develop distinctive research in creative learning and practice;</li><li>build social capital, cultural leadership and economic impact in Plymouth and our wider region;</li><li>foster strategic partnerships to grow influence and visibility of our work.</li></ul>

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Our aim is to cultivate a research environment that reflects and supports the educational character of the college by fostering close links between research and pedagogy, and between research and professional practice. 
At the centre of this tripartite figure is a progressive vision of ‘thinking through making’ that radiates through all our communities of practice: as artists, makers, designers and creative media producers. For us, it denotes the fundamental importance of the practitioner’s relationship to, and understanding of, materials, media, tools and processes relating to their area of practice-based enquiry. 
Accordingly, our philosophy for research focuses upon creative making and its contexts (studio, workshop, gallery, digital realm and beyond) as fertile sites of scholarship, knowledge generation and exchange, that also promote efforts to build resilient communities of practice.

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The specialist, professional art, design and media focus of the college’s academic portfolio is central to its higher education identity and ethos and is the determining factor in shaping its definition of research. The college fully recognises and operates to a definition of research used by the Research Excellence Framework, UK (REF 2014) in that; research is defined as a process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared. It includes work of direct relevance to the needs of commerce, industry, and to the public and voluntary sectors; scholarship; the invention and generation of ideas, images, performances, artefacts including design, where these lead to new or substantially improved insights; and the use of existing knowledge in experimental development to produce new or substantially improved materials, devices, products and processes, including design and construction.

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The college also accepts that art and design research is often concerned with particulars, is qualitative and holistic in its expression, and can have a worth or impact that at times cannot be adequately captured through metrics-based indices (features that are typically contained in descriptors such as ‘experiential’, ‘embodied’, ‘tacit’, ‘situational’, and ‘procedural’). For these reasons the college definition of research is inclusive of activities whose primary outputs can sometimes consist of material artefacts, audio constructions, creative writing forms, exhibitions, and the production of ephemeral and time-based performances and related phenomena. The college has developed a series of benchmarks for staff research which recognises this inclusive definition.
The college also recognises that research in art and design forms an integral part of the creative process, and will therefore at times interpret the title of ‘artist’ or ‘designer’ as synonymous with ‘researcher’ or ‘Principal Investigator’. In support of this direction, the college will judiciously encourage and support links between research and professional practice, and research and pedagogy.

Research and Scholarship at Plymouth College of Art is involved externally on regional, national and international levels. The sections below provide a brief synopsis of notable research projects supported by or led by staff and students of the college.

Making Futures is a research platform exploring contemporary craft and maker movements as ‘change agents’ in 21st-century society.
Convinced of the transformative potential of small-scale making and its capacity to contribute to new progressive futures, Making Futures seeks to situate these material cultures at the centre of the critical issue facing global consumer society: how we move beyond the reductive instrumentalism of ‘homo economicus’ and modes of mass consumption that are destructive of human and non-human natures.
For more information please visit our <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/research/research-groups">Research Groups</a> page or contact Head of Research, <a href="mailto:jnoble@pca.ac.uk">Judith Noble</a>.

Making Learning is a crucible for open inquiry through arts education, that places making at the gravitational centre of learning. Creative learning and social justice are the double helix of our DNA.This cross-disciplinary conversation assembles the most progressive thinkers and practitioners in creative education across the full learning continuum. 
Making Learning is also a biennial symposium convening an international community of expertise and practice in creative pedagogy throughout the full continuum of learning, from early years education to Masters level, research and professional development.
The college's Tate Exchange activity also takes place under the banner of Making Learning. Tate Exchange is an ambitious ‘open experiment’ which enables associate organisations to devise and develop creative learning through public participation at Tate. For more information on Tate Exchange, please visit our Events &amp; Conferences page or contact Head of School (Critical + Cultural Studies), <a href="mailto:sfelmingham@pca.ac.uk">Stephen Felmingham</a>.
For more information on Making Learning, please visit our <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/research/research-groups">Research Groups</a> page or contact Academic Dean, <a href="mailto:pfieldsenddanks@pca.ac.uk">Paul Fieldsend-Danks</a>

The Art &amp; Social Action research group explores how socially engaged art practice can have a positive impact within our communities of shared interest. The group looks into what social practice, research and enterprise means for creative learning, and how it can have a wider impact within and beyond Plymouth College of Art.
For more information please visit our <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/research/research-groups">Research Groups</a> page or contact Art &amp; Social Action Research Group Convenor, <a href="mailto:jblyth@pca.ac.uk">Jonathan Blyth</a>.

The Memory, Site and Artefact research group focuses on cultural discourses and contemporary articulations of collective and personal memory, through the investigation of image and object, as well as textual, performative and interventionist practices. Shared research interests include themes such as globalisation, borders, migration, decolonisation, archives and materiality. 
For more information please visit our <a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/research/research-groups" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Research Groups</a> page or contact Memory, Site and Artefact Research Group Convenors, <a href="mailto:mchandra@pca.ac.uk">Mohini Chandra</a> and <a href="mailto:spaige@pca.ac.uk">Steven Paige</a>.

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Thinking through making

From art and social justice to memory and artefact, discover the future of making and learning.

The Box

There’s something special about the way that music, art and film blend in Plymouth, here's why we think the city is such a great place to study.

Plymouth: City Of Culture

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Events

Plymouth College of Art’s 2021 Summer Shows

Summer Shows 2021

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From stunning countryside and beaches to a vibrant and thriving city life, Plymouth has a lot to offer...

Plymouth: A beautiful place to study

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Featured Staff

Plymouth College of Art has appointed Professor Paul Fieldsand-Danks as Interim Principal and Chief Executive for the upcoming 2021/22 academic year

Plymouth College of Art has appointed Professor Paul Fieldsend-Danks as Interim Principal and Chief Executive

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Employability

Students at the college have been making their mark on public art across the city, in collaboration with local art organisations

Plymouth College of Art students get creative outside the classroom

In the run-up to her solo exhibition in September, we explore the tactile work of Textile Designer and part-time MA Textile Design student Becky Dodman Wainwright through her project 'Tasseography Textiles'.

Using tasseography to co-design textile artworks

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Awards & Industry

Second year Mal Bielecka has animated music videos for emo rappers RONEN and Dying In Designer.

Animation & Games student animates rappers’ music videos

Medal Design Bookcase

After winning the BAMS Student Medal Project last year, graduate Gregory Williams has impressed again with the Medal Makers Award.

Craft & Material Practices graduate awarded British Art Medal Society Medal Makers Award

NEW PRO TALKS! Check out our Youtube channel for our newest guest lectures including transgender magic and the tarot with renowned author Rachel Pollack, and rituals in art with artist Jesse Bransford - watch now on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3f2xADX1Tp3J6z78rMwdmi5ucs-L1n_v">YouTube</a>.

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<a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/courses/ba-hons-illustration-2021/overview">BA (Hons) Illustration</a> 2020 graduate Charlotte Leadley chats to New Designers about illustrating home environments and her advice for anyone experiencing a creative block. <a href="https://www.newdesigners.com/drawing-on-observation-and-interactions-with-illustrator-charlotte-leadley/">Read now.</a><a href="https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/posts/crafts-alumna-fires-up-kiln-on-the-great-pottery-throw-down-2021"></a>