Hull School of Art and Design - geograph

The Hull School of Art and Design (previously the Hull School of Art) is an

art school An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-second ...

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-ea ...

, in the

East Riding of Yorkshire The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Riding or East Yorkshire, is a ceremonial county and unitary authority area in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and west, South Yorkshire to t ...

, England.

History

Founded in 1861, classes were originally given in a suite of upstairs chambers at the ''Public Assembly Rooms'', now the New Theatre. In 1878, the School of Art had moved to a Georgian town house on Albion Street. In 1901, an Anlaby Road site was acquired from the '' North Eastern Railway Company'', and an architectural competition advertised. The winning design for a new Hull School of Art was produced by the Bloomsbury firm of ''Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards''; the building was completed in April 1905. In 1930 the school at Anlaby Road became ''Hull College of Arts and Crafts''. In 1962 the College was renamed the ''Regional College of Art and Design'', and began to offer a syllabus leading to the newly recognised Diploma in Art and Design (DipAD). In 1972 a new Art College Building on Queens Gardens was commissioned, designed by the Architectural Partnership of

Frederick Gibberd Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd (7 January 1908 – 9 January 1984) was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer. He is particularly known for his work in Harlow, Essex, and for the BISF house, a design for a prefabricated council ...

. This building received its first students in September 1974, and offered honours degrees in Fine Art and Graphic Design. The amalgamation of the local authority's

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ...

provision commenced in 1976 with the foundation of ''Hull College of Higher Education''. It was later renamed the University of Humberside and entered into alliance with higher education institutions in Lincoln. The resulting

University of Lincolnshire and Humberside The University of Lincoln is a public university, public research university in Lincoln, England, Lincoln, England, with origins dating back to 1861. It gained university status in 1992 and its present name in 2001. The main campus is in the heart ...

came into being in 1996, and underwent a further name change in 2001 when it became the

University of Lincoln , mottoeng = Freedom through wisdom , established = 1861 – Hull School of Art1905 – Endsleigh College1976 – Hull College1992 – University of Humberside1996 – University of Lincolnshire and Humberside2001 � ...

. Renamed as the Hull School of Art and Design, the school is now a part of Hull College Group.

Alumni

Simon Goddard Simon Goddard (born Cardiff, 21 December 1971) is a British author and music journalist. He was born in Wales, later moving to Scotland. Though a writer by profession, Goddard originally went to art school in Carlisle, then Hull, and briefly con ...

Alfred Garth Jones Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. Early life Alfred Jones was born in Hulme, Manchester in 1872, the son of Thomas Jones (b1844) ...

* Ted Lewis *

John Alexander Parks John Alexander Parks (born January 1952), also known as John Parks, is a British painter, resident in the United States since 1976. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, he has exhibited his painting in the US and the UK since the late ...

* Professor David Remfry MBE RA studied Painting and Printmaking from 1959 to 1964. His tutor was Gerald Harding. *

Harry Hudson Rodmell Harry Hudson Rodmell (28 May 1896 – 3 March 1984) was an English painter and Commercial artist, specialising in marine art. He studied at Hull School of Art before enlisting in the Royal Engineers during World War I. After demobilisation, he ...

Theresa Tomlinson Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946 in Crawley, Sussex) is an English writer for children, mainly of historical fiction. She advocates giving children "the opportunity to consider many different role models and ways of life, so that they can make up th ...

Vanessa Winship Vanessa Winship HonFRPS (born 1960) is a British photographer who works on long term projects of portrait, landscape, reportage and documentary photography. These personal projects have predominantly been in Eastern Europe but also the USA. W ...

* Andrew Voller, E.M.A. Psychology founder.

References

External links

Hull Regional College of Art 1972-74 (www.goodfelloweb.com/hull)
{{Portal bar, England, Education, Visual arts University of Lincoln Education in Kingston upon Hull Buildings and structures in Kingston upon Hull 1861 establishments in England