Five alumni shortlisted for Purchase Prize
We are delighted to announce that five Art School Fine Art alumni were shortlisted for the Ingram Collection’s Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize this year! The winners of the Purchase Prize were announced on Friday 8 November, with Alvin Ong, Lucy Gregory and Emma Prempeh taking the top awards. Congratulations to the winners and all [...]
Big Draw workshop focuses on plants
As part of the Big Draw Festival, on Saturday 26 October 2019, the Art School ran a charcoal drawing workshop centred around the study of plants. The theme of this year’s Big Draw Festival is ‘Wellbeing and Creativity’ and so our event, entitled ‘The Power of Plants’, focused on the positive effects of both creativity [...]
John Wigley Awarded Art School Fellow Title
Artist and academic John Wigley, has been made an Art School Fellow, an honorary, lifelong title which celebrates significant contributions made to the Art School by an external person, usually through achievements in art, craft, heritage or materiality and/or education or pedagogy. The Art School Board of Trustees and Senior Management Team chose to award [...]
Art School Celebrates MA Fine Art Students' Achievements
The successes of our MA Fine Art students were celebrated yesterday in the Prize-Giving and Celebration event held at the Art School, which was followed by the Private View of the MA Fine Art Show. The Show remains open every day this week until 5pm on Sunday 15 September. Principal, Tamiko O’Brien, addressing the graduands [...]
Another Year of Outstanding Results in the National Student Survey
The Art School is once again delighted to announce that our graduating students ranked their experience at the Art School extremely highly in the National Student Survey (NSS), surpassing the benchmark for higher education providers in all areas. These results follow similarly excellent results for the Art School in the 2018 NSS. 97.3% of our [...]