Leeds Arts University is a specialist arts further and higher education institution, based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a main campus opposite the University of Leeds.

History

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It was founded in 1846 as the Leeds School of Art. From 1968 to 1993 it was known as Jacob Kramer College, after Jacob Kramer, having lost part of its provision to Leeds Polytechnic (the future Leeds Beckett University). It was known as Leeds College of Art and Design until 2009, and then as Leeds College of Art. In August 2017, the school was granted university status and the name was changed to Leeds Arts University.

Locations

The University today has city centre sites at Blenheim Walk and at Vernon Street.

Academic profile

Further education courses

* Extended Diploma in Creative Practice * Foundation Diploma in Art & Design - one of the largest in the country, with 280 students validated by the

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Undergraduate courses

* BA (Hons) Animation * BA (Hons) Comic & Concept Art * BA (Hons) Creative Advertising * BA (Hons) Creative Writing * BA (Hons) Fashion Branding with Communication * BA (Hons) Fashion Design * BA (Hons) Fashion Photography * BA (Hons) Filmmaking * BA (Hons) Fine Art * BA (Hons) Graphic Design * BA (Hons) Illustration * BA (Hons) Photography * BMus (Hons) Popular Music Performance * BA (Hons) Textile Design * BA (Hons) Visual Communication

Postgraduate courses

* MA Animation * MA Creative Practice * MA Curation Practices * MA Creative Practice * MA Fine Art * MA Graphic Design * MA Illustration and Graphic Novel * MA Photography * MA Worldbuilding and Creature Design

Student body

Like many of the 'traditional' British art schools, it has a modest annual intake, at higher education students in . Out of UK higher education institutions, it is the largest.

Notable alumni

* Norman Ackroyd, artist *

Sam Ainsley Sam Ainsley (born 1950) is a British artist and teacher, living and working in Glasgow, who was the founder and former head of the Master of Fine Art (MFA) programme at the Glasgow School of Art. Biography Ainsley was born in North Shields, the ...

, artist * Kenneth Armitage, sculptor *

James Bateman James Bateman may refer to: *James Bateman (horticulturist) (1811–1897), British landowner and horticulturist *James Bateman (artist) (1893–1959), English painter of rural scenes *James Bateman (MP), MP for Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency), ...

, painter *

Glen Baxter Glen Baxter is the name of: * Glen Baxter (artist) (born 1944), British cartoonist * Glen Baxter (journalist), Canadian journalist * Glen E. Baxter Glen Earl Baxter (March 19, 1930 – March 30, 1983) was an American mathematician. Baxter's ...

, artist * Trevor Bell, artist *

Alison Britton Alison Claire Britton OBE (born 4 May 1948) is a British ceramic artist, with an international reputation, known for her large sculptural, slab-built vessels. Born in Harrow, Middlesex, the daughter of the educationalist James N. Britton, she ...

, ceramics tutor at the Royal College of Art * Henry Carr, painter and war artist * Michael Chapman, guitarist, musician and singer *

Paul Clark Paul Clark may refer to: * Paul Clark (composer) (born 1968), British composer * Paul Clark (designer) (born 1940), British designer * Paul Clark (educator) (born 1954), American labor historian and educator * Paul Clark (keyboardist) (born 1962), ...

, musician * Elisabeth Collins, painter and sculptor * Raymond Coxon, painter * Diz Disley, musician and graphic artist * Leigh Francis, comedian * Marcus Harvey, painter *

Barbara Hepworth Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadi ...

, sculptor * Damien Hirst, 1995 Turner Prize winner *

Jocelyn Horner Jocelyn Horner (1902 – January 1973) was a British sculptor and teacher. Biography Horner was born at Green Hayes in Halifax, West Yorkshire, where she spent most of her life. She attended Halifax High School and Grovelly Manor in Bournemout ...

, sculptor * Thomas Houseago, sculptor *

Percy Hague Jowett Percy Hague Jowett (1882–1955) was a British artist and arts administrator, principal of the Royal College of Art. Jowett was born in Halifax, Yorkshire in 1882. He studied art at Leeds College of Art and London's Royal College of Art. In 1927 ...

(1882–1955), artist and arts administrator *

Vivien Knight Vivien Margaret Knight (9 November 1953 – 18 December 2009), was a British art historian and gallerist, and the head of the Guildhall Art Gallery, from 1983 until her death. Early life Knight was born on 9 November 1953, at Solihull Hospital, ...

, art historian and gallerist * Jacob Kramer, painter *

Edna Lumb Edna Lumb (1931–1992) was a British artist specialising in industrial technology depicted in oils and prints. She was based in her home town of Leeds, UK but travelled around the UK, Europe and West Africa for inspiration and subjects for her ...

, painter *

Henry Moore Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...

, sculptor * Peter Murphy,

Stuckist Stuckism () is an international art movement founded in 1999 by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to promote figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art.Stass Paraskos Stass Paraskos ( el, Στας Παράσκος; 17 March 1933 – 4 March 2014) was an artist from Cyprus, although much of his life was spent teaching and working in England. Early life Paraskos was born in Anaphotia, a village near the city ...

, painter and founder of the Cyprus College of Art * Bob Peck, actor *

Vivian Pitchforth Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA ARWS (25 April 1895 – 6 August 1982) was an English painter, teacher and an official British war artist during the Second World War. He excelled at watercolours and in later years concentrated on landscapes, sea ...

, artist *

Victor Sloan Victor Sloan MBE (born 1945) is a Northern Irish photographer and artist. Life and work Sloan was born in 1945 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He studied at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and Belfast and Leeds Colleges ...

, visual artist *

Bernard Schottlander Bernard Schottlander (1924–1999) was a British, German-born designer and sculptor. His archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives. Life Bernard Schottlander was born in Mainz, Germany in 1924 and came as a Jewish ref ...

, sculptor * Ria Sharma, founder of Make Love Not Scars *

Georgina Starr Georgina Starr (born 1968) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists. She is best known for her video, sound, performance and installation works. Starr's work has been described in Artforum magazine as exploring "the imaginative s ...

, artist * Cecil Stephenson, artist * Frankie Vaughan, singer *

Hilda Annetta Walker Hilda Annetta Walker FRSA (1877 – 3 June 1960) was an English sculptor, and a painter of landscapes, seascapes and horses, flourishing between 1902 and 1958. She was a war artist painting in England during the First and Second World Wars, a ...

, artist *

Harold Sandys Williamson Harold Sandys Williamson (29 August 1892 – 6 March 1978) was a British painter, poster designer and teacher. Williamson fought on the Western Front in World War One and also worked as a war artist, both later in that conflict and, on the Hom ...

, painter *

Trevor Winkfield Trevor Winkfield (born 1944) is a British-born artist and writer. Drawing upon his interest in both modernist literary movements and medieval architecture and pageantry, Winkfield has collaborated with many contemporary poets and writers, includ ...

, painter and writer *

Joash Woodrow Joash Woodrow (April 6, 1927 – February 15, 2006) was a reclusive English artist. Woodrow was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, of Polish-Jewish parents, and was one of eight siblings. He studied at Leeds College of Art, and from 1950 to 1953 a ...

, painter

References

External links

University site

LCAD University and College Union (UCU) Branch

Exhibitions information
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