York College 3D Creative Practice

Not just 3D! Our students learn printmaking, digital, and sketchbook skills to help them develop their designs and refine their work

New year, new insta!

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Our first year exhibition at the beautiful today. BA 3D Creative Practice, and collaborated with on the theme of ‘Hidden York Stories’ with great results! Big thank you also to The Company of Cordwainers of the City of York for their support today.

Degree Show is open! We’re at the Spurriergate Centre in the middle of York. Come and see the work of 3D Creative Practice, , , until 4pm Sunday

There’s an open evening tonight at , come and talk to 3D Creative Practice course leader, Beccy, about our creative degrees

Discovering freemotion embroidery 🧵🪡 - using 2D techniques to add rich surface pattern to our 3D work

Visits from working artists are invaluable for our students - marcolooks lead a brilliant session talking about his work and business last week

Pattern and print - our second year students have been playing with screen printed surface pattern ideas this week

Blacksmithing practice! 🔨🔥

Repost - old technology in action during today’s drawing session - anyone remember an OHP?
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Little action shot from todays lesson!! Here i am using a projector to create a shadow on the wall using my paper model. I am then drawing round the sections of the shadow I find most interesting!

It was brilliant to see all our students graduate yesterday and celebrate their hard work 👩‍🎓

From to - 3D Creative Practice, , and saw Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018

3D Creative Practice, and joint HE trip to to see the amazing Sheila Hicks exhibition

CUT FOLD JOIN Experimentation 📄 🔦 📸

Our first year BA 3D Creative Practice students have been experimenting with paper maquettes for future wood, metal and ceramic forms in their first week

, who’s just completed her degree and will be graduating later this year. Well done Laetitia!

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Delighted to have some of my wall hangings for sale at Pyramid Gallery in York😊

It’s our brilliant student’s final show at this week! You can visit from today until Wednesday. Also on show is amazing work from , and

Our 2nd year BA exhibition has been installed in the college gallery space and opens today! Here’s a sneak peek of our brilliant and hardworking students putting it all together 🪜

On their way to final firing - First year student has her work cut out next week stringing together 400 of these!

first year BA student ’s work, successfully incorporating machine embroidery with porcelain
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Been working on machine embroidered bracket fungi all week. I want to put these on wall tiles but they take flipping ages and ages to make.

Large ceramic work in progress by 3rd year student going into the kiln. The complete body of work will be shown at next month during our final show!

Come and visit us on the 22nd - meet our staff, see our specialist workshops and ask any questions you might have.

Delicate stamped textures on copper, inspired by woodland toadstools. Experiments for our live project by first year student .

You can find your creativity at the Super Saturday taster event! Sign up on the website to take part.
Many part-time students have discovered fantastic new skills that have led them to BA 3D Creative Practice and beyond into arts-based jobs. We’re really proud to have helped them turn their passion into a career ❤️

Amazing 3rd year BA work by - this ceramic piece is going to be HUGE!
You’ll be able to see it and all our students’ final major projects at very soon!

Relief on clay from a lino cut - we encourage our students to combine processes from different workshops to come up with new and exciting work!

Congratulations to the classes of ‘20 and ‘21 who graduated last night in the beautiful York Minster. It was a long wait to celebrate, but you finally got there!

Hot from the kiln! 🔥 First year BA student experimenting with copper and enamels to create braille. Part of our current live project with the and

and .allmark are taking part in this weekend, you can see their work at venues 59 and 4 until 5pm Sunday

Glass clay, researched and made by brilliant 2nd year student
These pieces will be fired to be part of her current geometry inspired work