Thinking Making (2017) explores the work of Plymouth College of Art, one of only a handful of independent art colleges remaining in the country, which is pioneering an approach to art education centred on making.
In recent years, the college has invested heavily in spaces for making, acquiring the sort of facilities and equipment that other art colleges are increasingly abandoning, namely printmaking presses, kilns, metal working tools and glass furnaces. Students at the college are taught to understand materials and develop ideas through an intimacy with process.
This film explores how this approach is changing the way that students go about developing their ideas and asks what the ultimate purpose of an art education should be.