Exhibition

Summer Shows

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Mount Edgcumbe House & Country Park

Roam through the stunning Formal Gardens of Mount Edgcumbe to find the site-specific large scale works by our second-year students.

Art @ Edgcumbe

Film Screening

Mohini Paradise Lost

MIRROR

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

Smart Citizens Programme

Solar Workshop

Plymouth College of Art

Create your own solar-powered artwork in this free 2-part workshop hosted in collaboration with Smart Citizens and Art and Energy.

Make a Solar Powered Artwork: 2-Part Workshop

UCAS and University Fairs

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Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Undergraduate

The UK University Search Autumn London Fair is the perfect way for students to choose which university is right for them.

UK University Search London

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Ocean Studios

Postgraduate

Textiles

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

Freshers Events

Harriet Paige

Plymouth College of Art Students' Union

We'll be supporting you throughout your time here so get to know us at our stall in Reception - there might even be some freebies!

Freshers 2021 | Get to Know Your SU Team

Pizza

Unwind and fill up after your first week with some free pizza in the Students' Union!

Freshers 2021 | The Big Freshers Pizza Party

Young Arts

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Pre-Degree Campus

Established in 1988, Plymouth College of Art's renowned Young Arts programme bridges the gap in arts provision for young people created by increasingly limited access to creative activity in schools.

Young Arts Saturday Arts Club: Autumn Term | 9 - 11 years

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Young Arts Saturday Arts Club: Autumn Term | 11 - 13 years

Archive Front Clear

Leadworks Plymouth

3D Design

Curation

Craft

Education

Critical & Cultural

Plymouth College of Art academics respond to the idea of archive; responding with new works, reworking previous work or drawing from their own personal archive.

Grey Area presents 'Archive'

Paignton Zoo

You're in for a wild time with this trip - a day out at Paignton Zoo!

Freshers 2021 | Paignton Zoo Trip

A young art student in a red jumper shares a joke with friends whilst drawing on a big sheet of paper with charcoal

The National Saturday Club gives 14–16-year-olds across the country the opportunity to study subjects they love at their local university, college or cultural institution, for free.

National Art & Design Saturday Club | 14 - 16 years

A tutor enthusiastically addresses a group of Young Arts students

Young Creators Arts Club | 13 - 16 years

Skating

Plymouth Pavilions

Skate through the second week of Freshers at Plymouth Pavillions Ice Rink!

Freshers 2021 | Ice Disco at Plymouth Pavilions

A student chats and laughs with a member of the Plymouth College of Art team at a university fair event

Edgbaston Stadium

The UK University Search Autumn Birmingham Fair is the perfect way for students to choose which university is right for them.

UK University Search Birmingham

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A fair dedicated to everything health, wellbeing and self-care related, who could say no?!

Freshers 2021 | Health, Wellbeing and Self-Care Fair

Short Course

Making Change Autumn 2021

Short Courses and Masterclasses

Animation

Ceramics

Costume

Design

Digital Media

Drawing

Fashion

Film

Fine Art

Game Arts

Glass

Graphic Design

Illustration

Interior Design

Jewellery

Marketing

Painting

Photography

Printmaking

Styling

Commercial Photography

A free taster course designed to help prepare you for joining us to study one of our creative Undergraduate or Postgraduate degrees.

Making Change: Autumn 2021

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Come along and purchase work made by your fellow students!

Freshers 2021 | Student Work Fair

Freshers Fair

Join us for this years Freshers Fair, it's back and it's bigger and better than ever!

Freshers 2021 | Freshers Fair

Hope In Age Anxiety

Sunny Art Centre

Hope in an Age of Anxiety: 'A Conversation with John Milton's Paradise Lost'

Society Fair

Want to join some clubs and societies, or even find out more about each of them? Come along!

Freshers 2021 | Clubs and Societies Fair

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Guys, gals and non-binary pals, it's time to be loud and proud at our LGBTQ+ Social - with local drag artist as the nights' entertainment!

Freshers 2021 | LGBTQ+ Social (with Live Drag Show)

Eikon Exhibition Centre

School Summit is a two day event held annually that caters for students in Years 11-14 and their teachers

School Summit Northern Ireland

Online Event

Open Day

International

Applicant Advice

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Online

Pre-Degree

Communication

Content Creation

Technologies

Media

Publishing

Production

Sound

Technical

Art History

Join our Admissions team every Monday between 3-4.30pm for an informal chat about your options and advice on your application to undergraduate, postgraduate or pre-degree study at Plymouth College of Art.

[online] Applying to Plymouth College of Art - Drop-in event

ExCeL London

Be inspired and immerse yourself in what your creative future could hold.

UCAS Create Your Future London

A member of the Plymouth College of Art team speaks to a student showing them a prospectus at a university fair event

Ashton Gate Stadium

The UK University Search Autumn Bristol Fair is the perfect way for students to choose which university is right for them.

UK University Search Bristol

Tours

Campus Experience

Careers & Employability

Industry Talk

Students' Union

Student Life

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Join us at our on-campus Open Day on Saturday 16th October and discover our state-of-the-art facilities, talk to expert staff and tour the local accommodation.

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Find your future in post-16 creative study by attending our next online 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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A virtual event where you can find out what it's like to study at Plymouth College of Art.

UK University Search Virtual Fair

Artist Talk

Iron Manilla Render

FabLab Plymouth

Join in for a special event led by artist Mohini Chandra, the SHIPS project and the Smart Citizens Programme.

Stray Finds

Two students in black tshirts with the words Freshers Stewards look at the camera smiling and surrounded by blue helium balloons.

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

Student Life Q&A

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A virtual fair that combines university and careers advice - essential for school leavers.

What University? What Career? Live Virtual event

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Join us at our on-campus Open Day on Saturday 13th November and discover our state-of-the-art facilities, talk to expert staff and tour the local accommodation.

Manchester Central Convention Complex

UCAS Create Your Future Manchester

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Join us at our on-campus Open Day on Saturday 15th January and discover our state-of-the-art facilities, talk to expert staff and tour the local accommodation.

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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Research

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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.

Making Futures 2017

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.

Thinking through making

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