Print (MA)

A large workshop where students are using large roller presses to make prints.

Introduction

Print is a site of image/text multiplication and a process of sharing. It is the prehistory of social media and the web. Print is also a series of alchemical processes, some using stones, flames and acids, others using glitches, memes and AI. The history of thought and representation is carried in printed matter, inscriptions in rocks, traces of ink on paper. Through workshop inductions we give students practical tools to experiment with marks of all kinds. Archives are our material memory. Many students appropriate ‘found images’, releasing new stories. Students create publications, exhibitions and events exploring the broadest interpretations of print. We seek students passionate about these ideas and willing to risk critically engaging with the possibilities of images, texts and spaces of exchange.

Our students

Girl in Grey top Alex Helfgott
personal profile Xixi Xu
Artist sitting on a chair backwarfs wearing black clothing. Ashley Katarzyna Borusowska
Head shot of woman smiling in red and orange dress Szewska
black and white photo of a man leaning on a printing press. he is wearing no shoes Tom Parker
Kyle, standing in front of The Iron Jungle artwork. Kyle Michael Pattinson
Profile Picture for Schwarzsonne Schwarzsonne 黯耀
Elisa Dublanc Portrait 2023 RCA Print Studios Elisa Dublanc
Profile picture of artist in flora pattern dress standing in front of a series of flower drawings. Chelsea Tong
wanying li Wanying Li
A woman leaning against a printing press, smiling Bingqing Liu
Picture by : @soleil.noir.me Manuela De La Vega Castro
my comic self Yusi Fu (Dagurljo)
Jellyfish VIOMEAT
alt="" Bohan Duan
A woman, in black and white, standing in front of work. Lydia Bell
Standing in front of a lake in Scotland on a cloudy day. Haoran Liu
Yujing (Eugene) Huang Yujing Huang
Self-portrait as 'Hope' Emily John
. Nikita Steinberg
A woman with glasses and wind-blown hair, sitting under a straw canopy with a thoughtful expression. Yaohui Wang
Xinguo Yan Xinguo Yan
. Lianjiang Zhu 连江
"I believe I like my hands better than my face-though both seem different every time I look at them...It makes me laugh that I like myself so much-Like myself as you make me-Maybe it's you and me that I like-" - Georgia O'Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz, June 16, 1917. Carol He
SMOF Matias Oficialdegui – “SMOF”
Black and white portrait of Li Qinyang Qinyang Li
A color photo of a woman standing naturally, with a plain white background and white shirt. Yihe Zhang
Iain Mclellan Bastidas
Me and my cat Yuetong Wang
Passing the time jumping on the bed. during Jo Hansen
My works are derived from my daily life observation and philosophical thinking, and extend to the community and society. I hope to explore something beyond the form and return to the essence, consider  what contemporary art need to research which not only criticize current social problems,  but also need to try to bring the audiences resonate and thinking.  My works include installation, oil painting, printmaking. I take the observation of obvious and easily disappearing traces as my perspective, and try to find new expression and development in traditional printmaking, new media art and digital prints.  Before I started my work, I went through a very confused period, often feeling that time and world was constantly passing around me, but I could not capture the traces of my existence in the world. Therefore, in the project “The milky way”, I began to focus on how to visualize these “flowing traces”. I collected traces of London's land by using sliced bread as a medium, put them on the pavements and the jagged stone paths to get the footprints from people, and collected traces of London's water by drawing ripples along the river and recording coordinates. I hope this project can find personal traces while coming from the traces of group life, so I use a hand-made book as a presentation form, and use a printer to directly print on gauze and cotton to express “flowing traces”in an unclear transfer way. The process of sewing and making by hand also integrates my personal traces into the work. However, after making this work, I was about to graduate, and my young cousin was seriously ill. Since then, I noticed that many friends and families around me wanted time to stay in a certain moment, of course, time cannot stop, so I began to think about how to preserve the most beautiful memories. I created the project “Back to me some day”. I put the sliced European pears into the acrylic box and tried to seal those pears. Obviously, this could not be successful, just like we can not record the happiest moment every time. But I found the pears in the acrylic box were rotting and disappeared at the same time that mold began to grow. By presenting this “material flowing”, I hope to show the audience that while cherishing every encounter, they don't have to worry so much about the separation and the passage of time, because we will meet again in every “flow cycle”. (Artist Wolfgang Laib gave me a lot of inspiration in the selection of materials for this project, such as combining perishable materials with basically non-perishable materials to explore eternity)   Work “Back to me someday” has exerted a great influence on me. It is also because of this work that I want to do works with a sense of responsibility. I believe that my contemporary art works should not only criticize some social status, but also heal and give the audience courage and direction. Rui Hua
Lines Taking Form Malav Padariya
Profile Picture Yiwen Liu
Profile image in front of sky at dusk Joanna Cohn
尸体硬硬的原来是死了 Jingyi Li
cover photo Yinan Li
Ziyi Huang's portrait Ziyi Huang
picture Ruixuan Chang
Haowen Zheng Haowen Zheng 郑淏文
Xueyun(Yuan) Wei, from China, is currently based in London, UK. Her work includes illustrations, prints, and publications. Xueyun Wei
A man in a plaid shirt and blue hat focused on working on plate making for etching. Chingching Yuen
a simple picture Jing He
10029848@network.rca.ac.uk Meilin Chen
photo of author He Wang
A woman is standing in front of a white wall. She has long black curly hair and is wearing a black dress with a necklace on her collar. There are some embossing prints on the background wall. Xinyue Shen
A woman stands in front of her work. Aixin Wan
'You, Me, The distance' 1600mm x 891mm my photo Zehui Chen
alt=“” Simge Guclu
Kirti Virmani Kirti Virmani
Zhaoxin Zhou studied abroad in the UK from high school, where she was first introduced to and became interested in the subject of art. After years of study, she was admitted to the London College of Art in 2019 and started to study Illustration and Visual Communication. She was first introduced to printmaking during her Graduation course and used the technique to create a piece of work called loneliness, which was collected by the London College of Art and included in the school's gallery. She became interested in printmaking and began her postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Art Printmaking Department in 2023. Zhaoxin Zhou
Connie with her exhibition work "Emotional Gut" Xinran Chen ( Connie )
Black and white image of woman and painting Karen Camkin
profile image Ziqian Liu(Eucaly)
Somewhere Else Yi Jin
Image of artist sat on desk in front of their studio wall, covered in small studies of their work. Isadora Marriott
Personal profile photograph Qinrui Yang
Personal photo Hsin Hwang
Here is Sean holding a banana phone. who is he talking to? Sean Pearl