Facilities and resources

The School provides a well-equipped environment for students to maximise the potential of their work and realise their creative vision.

The gallery provides a space for exhibiting a range of creative work including academic research and student shows.

The University's dedicated, purpose-built dance studio is a state-of-the-art facility for dance and performance students. The studio has a maple-sprung floor, full-length mirrors, music system and audio equipment.

There are fully-equipped drama and performance studios where diverse staging and lighting can be adapted. 

Impressive digital imaging facilities and large-scale digital printing and projection equipment are available.  

Spacious darkrooms enable both monochrome and colour photograph development.

Students have access to an excellent professional recording studio, dedicated digital audio workstations and performance rooms.

The University has professionally equipped textile print workshops, providing equipment for dyeing, steaming, screen-printing, digital fabric printing, laser cutting, stitching and weaving.

Sculpture workshops offer facilities to work with a range of materials including wood, metal, and clay.

Printmaking is an impressively resourced workshop, providing screenprint, etching, collagraph and lithography resources in a generous space.

Light, well lit and spacious studios are provided for painting, with resources for canvas preparation.

These workshops contain specialist sewing machinery as well as high-tech printing, knitting and weaving equipment. Students also have access to the leather tannery and other facilities in the British School of Leather Technology based at Park Campus. 

Students from the Division of Media, English and Culture can benefit from a state-of-the-art television studio and newly constructed radio station.