City and Guilds of London Art School
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| Type | Charity |
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| Established | 1854 |
| Principal | Tamiko O'Brien |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Kennington |
| Affiliations |
Birmingham City University University of the Arts London City & Guilds of London Institute |
| Website | www.cityandguildsartschool.ac.uk |
Birmingham City University University of the Arts London
The City and Guilds of London Art School is a small specialist not-for-profit art college in London, England. It is one of the country's longest established art schools, and offers courses ranging from Foundation, through to BA (Hons) Undergraduate degrees and MA Postgraduate courses in Fine Art and Conservation as well as the countries only Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma courses in Historic Carving.
The Art School is housed in a row of Georgian buildings in London's Kennington district, as well as in an adjoining converted warehouse building close to the south bank of the river Thames.
The Art School champions contemporary Fine Art, Historic Architectural Stone Carving, Woodcarving and Gilding and the Conservation of cultural artefacts as well as running an intensive Foundation course. It is committed to providing high levels of contact teaching time with artists and expert professionals from a wide range of disciplines. It aims to keep traditional skills alive while encouraging innovation and exploration and offers an important, specialist alternative to other models of art and craft higher education in the UK.
For its small size it has a large number of bursaries and scholarships from benefactors who recognise the importance of its approach to specialist education. Of the 140 students studying on its undergraduate and postgraduate courses more than 60 benefitted from some form of bursary or scholarship in 2015.
The City and Guilds of London Art School was founded in 1854 by the Reverend Robert Gregory under the name Lambeth School of Art. It began as a night school in rooms occupied during the day by a National School in his south London parish of St Mary the Less. With the support of Henry Cole Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, who supplied Gregory with teachers, the school flourished and became a leader in the provision of instruction in applied art and design to working artisans, many of whom were employed by local manufacturing firms, including Doulton's and Farmer and Brindley. The rapid expansion of the school led to the need for new premises, and in 1860 Albert, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) laid the foundation stone for new premises in Millers Lane, built on the site of the Vauxhall Gardens as part of a redevelopment that included St Peter's church. The buildings are still standing, although the road is now called St Oswald’s Place.
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