Senior Technician: Printmaking

37 hours per week

Monday to Friday

8:45am to 5:00pm

At Norwich we champion transdisciplinary making and creating using traditional, digital and new emerging technologies. To support this, we provide a range of high-quality workshops and technical resources where students can explore material and digital thinking to succeed in their creative ambitions.

We are looking for an experienced Printmaker to operate our professional Printmaking Studios that are equipped with a variety resources for students to engage and experiment with traditional analogue and digital printmaking techniques. You will join a highly skilled team of technicians providing support to a range of courses, including Illustration, Graphic Design and Fine Art and be responsible for the design and delivery of technical workshops created to develop student confidence, understanding and proficiency.

The role will focus on workflows and processes in printmaking with groups and individuals as they develop their knowledge and technical abilities in this area. You will also support academic colleagues engaged in teaching activities and research within helping to shape the integration and embedding of technical learning and teaching for printmaking into our academic programmes collaborating with academic staff across our academic portfolio.

The successful candidate will be educated to degree level in a relevant art and design subject and/or possess considerable relevant experience in a technical role, delivering expertise to similar academic programmes. They will also have in-depth knowledge and experience of working with printmaking techniques and be able to explain complex technical concepts to a diverse audience in an inclusive and accessible way.

Above all we are looking for someone with an infectious enthusiasm and an exceptional understanding of professional printmaking practice that our students can feed off and incorporate into their creative practice through experimentation with different materials and processes.

Norwich University of the Arts is committed to being an inclusive community that offers equality of opportunity and enables our staff and students to flourish and succeed, regardless of their background or personal circumstances.

Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is embedded in everything that we do. We celebrate the diversity of our backgrounds, cultures and actions, promoting art and design as a catalyst of social change.

As such, we are champions for the creative arts; empowering all of our students to be valued and productive members of society, with ambitions to change the world.

Closing date for applications: 2^nd September 2024 at 5pm

Interviews will be held on: 24^th September 2024

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