About POST Journal

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Welcome to the world of POST. A small world, we grant you, but one that we built with our own fair hands. If you've come here after reading the current fourth edition, we hope you enjoyed it. And, if you're a regular reader, that you were more than happy with the new, shall we say, compact format.

Some background if you're wondering where the journal came from and who payed for it: POST was launched by three MA students in June 2007. It was created out of a desire to share and display the postgraduate work from University College Falmouth, Cornwall. (Note: although UCF helps finance print costs, POST was created as, and will always remain, an independent publication.)

There is so many good things happening across the institutions down here in Falmouth (which includes Camborne School of Mines and University of Exeter) that we wanted to be part of showing that excitingly diverse practice. POST was built to bridge the gaps between courses and campuses, to encourage dialogue and foster cross-course collaborations; to see what we could learn from each other. It was also built because we love magazines.

We believe the broader aspect to a paper printed publication is that it can successfully disseminate the work to an audience that is external to the institutions involved. As the journal is sent out with the UCF MA prospectus, it means that the work is reaching an international audience, helping to create a sense of what's going on down here. POST is also for sale in galleries, arts centres and good book shops throughout the south west.

Though you're reading this on-line of course, and this is also a fine way to communicate isn't it. So, we thought we'd build a rudimentary site to get us started and to publish on-line the work that we couldn't quite squeeze into the fourth paper edition. Naturally, this is a type of publishing in which it's going to be a wee bit easier to show some types of work than it is on paper – so look out for some moving image on this site very soon.

If you want to get involved and help shape the growth of the project, or have any comments to make, please get in touch.

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