Arts University Plymouth students tackle unemployment and burnout in graduate projects

Graduate projects from Arts University Plymouth address unemployment in creative industries, burnout, and female rage through illustration, fashion, and game design. Marriott Witney's 'How's, what's and why's?' depicts post-graduation anxieties about self-employment and AI imagery. Jessika McCarron's 'Reset Deck' offers a 40-card toolkit for creatives facing block or burnout. Evalynne Holloway's 'Gorgon Unbound – We Bite Back' reimagines Medusa through reclaimed materials and punk aesthetics. Other works include Anna Leader's 'Wolf Alice in Cardiff' examining women in music photography, Tom Bennett's '167 Miles of Yarn' translating long-distance relationships into glass and yarn, and Beth West's 'Missing_Title' game demo about loneliness. The university, founded in 1856 as Plymouth Drawing School, celebrates 170 years in 2026 and is the top-scoring specialist arts university in the UK National Student Survey for 2022–2025.