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Painting Drawing and Printmaking

BA · Arts University Plymouth · 3 years

Painting Drawing and Printmaking

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Arts University Plymouth

AI IMPACT
MEDIAN PAY, 15 MO£19,000
SATISFACTION97%
CONTINUATION85%
PROFESSIONAL JOBS45%
DESTINATION-WEIGHTEDAI is already used for about 20% of the work its graduates go into (Moderate).

About this course

Painting, drawing, and printmaking are three of the oldest and most foundational visual art practices, each with its own materials, techniques, and conceptual traditions, yet each in constant dialogue with the others. Drawing is at the heart of all visual thinking: a means of recording, exploring, and developing ideas that cuts across every other medium. Painting transforms surfaces through colour, mark, and material, engaging with everything from illusionistic representation to pure abstraction. Printmaking multiplies the image through processes including etching, lithography, screen printing, and woodcut, bringing its own distinctive logic of matrix, repetition, and edition to visual practice. The three-year full-time Painting, Drawing and Printmaking programme at Arts University Plymouth brings these three disciplines together in what is described as the only undergraduate degree in

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 65% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

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MORE ON THIS COURSEClassic profile (reviews, comparisons, open days, campus video) · this course as data. Measured August 2026; pay, satisfaction and continuation figures are the course's own published data (HESA GO / LEO / NSS).