Chelsea College of Arts is a constituent college of the

University of the Arts London University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea ...

based in London, United Kingdom, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further and higher education courses in fine art,

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, interior design, spatial design and textile design up to PhD level.

History

Polytechnic

Chelsea College of Arts was originally an integral school of the South-Western Polytechnic, which opened at Manresa Road, Chelsea, in 1895 to provide scientific and technical education to Londoners. Day and evening classes for men and women were held in domestic economy, mathematics, engineering,

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, art and music. Art was taught from the beginning of the Polytechnic, and included design,

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and electrodeposition. The South-Western Polytechnic became the Chelsea Polytechnic in 1922 and taught a growing number of registered students of the

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. At the beginning of the 1930s, the School of Art began to widen, including courses in

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training and commercial design from 1931. H.S Williamson, the school's appointed headmaster from 1930 to 1958, introduced sculpture shortly after

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. Notable artists from this period were employed as teachers such as

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

and Graham Sutherland. Alumni from this period included

Elisabeth Frink Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink (14 November 1930 – 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her ''Times'' obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in ...

, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Ethel Walker,

Dirk Bogarde Sir Dirk Bogarde (born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde; 28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as '' Doctor in the House'' (1954) for the Rank Org ...

, Robert Clatworthy, John Latham and

John Berger John Peter Berger (; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel '' G.'' won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism '' Ways of Seeing'', written as an accompaniment to the ...

. The School of Science separated and became known as the Chelsea College of Science and Technology in 1957, and was later admitted as a constituent College of the

in 1966. The Chelsea College of Science and Technology was granted its

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in 1971 and merged with

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

and

Queen Elizabeth College Queen Elizabeth College (QEC) was a college in London. It had its origins in the Ladies' (later Women's) Department of King's College, London, England, opened in 1885 but later accepted men as well. The first King's 'extension' lectures for l ...

in 1985.

Chelsea School of Art

The School of Art merged with the Hammersmith School of Art, founded by Francis Hawke, to form the Chelsea School of Art in 1908. The newly formed school was taken over by the

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and a new building erected at Lime Grove, which opened with an extended curriculum. A trade school for girls was erected on the same site in 1914. The school acquired premises at Great Titchfield Street, and was jointly accommodated with Quintin Hogg's Polytechnic in

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(a forerunner of the

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). The campus at Manresa Road introduced painting and

in 1963, with both disciplines being particularly successful. During this period, Chelsea had the highest enrolment of fine art students in any school of its kind in the country, producing many notable artists such as

Ossip Zadkine Ossip Zadkine (russian: Осип Цадкин; 28 January 1888 – 25 November 1967) was a Belarusian-born French artist. He is best known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs. Early years and education Zadkine was born on ...

, Mark Gertler and Paul Nash. Lawrence Gowing, painter and

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, was appointed as the first headmaster of the Chelsea School of Art. He was responsible for the integration of history and theory with practice, employing artists rather than art historians to teach art history and theory. This approach remains intrinsic to Chelsea's teaching philosophy today. Under Gowing, an option programme was introduced, which encompassed workshops in experimental music, poetry,

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, philosophy and

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. A basic design course, pioneered by

Victor Pasmore Edwin John Victor Pasmore, CH, CBE (3 December 190823 January 1998) was a British artist. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s. Early life Pasmore was born in Chelsham, Surrey, on 3 December 1908. He ...

and Richard Hamilton, was also developed during the same period, becoming the basis of the college's current foundation course in art and design. Professor William Callaway (Head of School from 1989 to 1992), Colin Cina (appointed Dean of School of Art), and Bridget Jackson (Dean of School of Design): These three reformed the school and ensured the redevelopment of the entire academic program, introducing courses at multiple levels from HND to accredited Honours and Postgraduate degrees. Initially, these were validated by the UK Council for National Academic Awards; i.e. in the short period prior to the London Institute gaining degree-awarding powers. Bridget Jackson was appointed Head of College in 1993, retiring in 1997 to be succeeded by Professor Colin Cina who led the college until his retirement in 2003.

London Institute

The Chelsea School of Art became a constituent College of the London Institute in 1986, formed by the

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to associate London's art, design, fashion and media schools into a collegiate structure. The school was renamed Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1989. The London Institute was granted University status and was renamed University of the Arts London in 2004. In 2013, the college was renamed Chelsea College of Arts. In 2002–2003, Professor Roger Wilson was appointed as the Head of College until his retirement in 2006. He led the relocation to the

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, renovated as a purpose-built art college by the architects

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in 2005. With this move, the Chelsea College of Arts presently resides next to

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, returning to one standalone campus.

Exhibition

The college comprises three notable on-site exhibition spaces: #Chelsea Space is an international and interdisciplinary platform for professional practitioners to exhibit experimental curatorial projects. The gallery also releases regular publications from participating

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, artists and designers. #The Parade Ground, situated within the college, has been transformed into London's largest open-air gallery hosting events from film screenings to large scale installations in spring 2008. The exhibition ground had previously been used for students and professionals as an open area platform, notably artist

Chris Burden Christopher Lee Burden (April 11, 1946 – May 10, 2015) was an American artist working in performance, sculpture and installation art. Burden became known in the 1970s for his performance art works, including ''Shoot'' (1971), where he arranged ...

's 'A Flying Steamroller' in 2006. Recent exhibitions include

Cildo Meireles Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, e ...

's 'Occasion', held in association with his exhibition at

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in 2008. #The Triangle Gallery, pertaining to its name, has been designed as a modern angular shaped space for students to show their work throughout the year.

Research

The college organises its research activities in partnership with

Camberwell College of Arts Camberwell College of Arts is a public tertiary art school in Camberwell, in London, England. It is one of the six constituent colleges of the University of the Arts London. It offers further and higher education programmes, including postgrad ...

and Wimbledon College of Art hosts a variety of research centres, groups and clusters: # International Centre for Fine Art Research (ICFAR) # Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) # Critical Practice Chelsea # FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment) # Textiles, Environment, Design (TED)

Affiliations

Chelsea is a constituent college of the

, with

Central Saint Martins Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of shor ...

, London College of Communication,

London College of Fashion The London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, in London, England. It offers undergraduate, postgraduate, short courses, study abroad courses and business-training in fashion, make-up, beauty-thera ...

and Wimbledon College of Art. The college also has exchange links with the

Fashion Institute of Technology The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) is a public college in New York City. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) and focuses on art, business, design, mass communication, and technology connected to the fashion industry. ...

in New York City, US.

Other

CLIP CETL

Chelsea and the

share the 'Creative Learning in Practice Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning' (CLIP CETL). The centre is funded by the British government in recognition of the two colleges' excellent results in developing student learning.

Notable alumni

* Valerie Adler (painter) * Anthea Alley (sculptor) *

Rita Angus Rita Angus (12 March 1908 – 25 January 1970), a New Zealand painter, has a reputation - along with Colin McCahon and Toss Woollaston - as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century New Zealand art. She worked primarily in oil and wat ...

(painter) * Sophie Aston (painter) *

Franko B Franko B (born in Milan in 1960) is an Italian performance artist based in London, where he has lived since 1979. He studied fine art at Camberwell College of Arts (1986–87), Chelsea College of Art (1987–90) and the Byam Shaw School of Art (1 ...

(artist) * Gwen Barnard (painter, printmaker) * Celia Frances Bedford (painter, printmaker) *

(art critic, novelist, painter and author) *

Quentin Blake Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his ...

(children's illustrator) * Flavia Blois, painter * Delphine Boël, (papier-mâché sculptor) *

(actor and author) *

Irene Mary Browne Irene Mary F.C. Browne (14 September 1881 – 27 June 1977) was a British artist known for her sculptures and pottery. Biography Browne was born in Fulham in London in September 1881. She attended the Croydon School of Art and the Westminster T ...

(sculptor, potter) *

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(painter) * Edward Burra (painter, draughtsman and printmaker) * Stephen J. Bury (author, art critic, curator and librarian) *

Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and '' The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for which she has received a tot ...

(film director and 1993

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winner) *

Seth Cardew Seth Cardew (11 November 1934 – 2 February 2016) was an English studio potter. He was the eldest son of fellow potter Michael Cardew and the brother of the composer Cornelius Cardew. Cardew was born in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire. He began ...

(Studio potter) *

Anthony Caro Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using ' found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moor ...

(abstract sculptor) * Leonora Carrington (painter) * Patrick Caulfield (painter and printmaker) * Helen Chadwick (1987

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nominee) * Georgina Chapman (actress, model and designer) * Alex Chinneck (artist) *

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(model, presenter) * Robert Clatworthy (sculptor) *

Michal Cole Michal Cole is a British-Israeli artist born in Haifa, Israel in 1974 to parents who emigrated from Morocco. She works primarily with the mediums of photography, video, tapestry, sculpture, watercolour and uses money in her works. Early life an ...

(artist) * Andrew Collins (broadcaster and journalist) *

Keith Coventry Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator.Burgess, John, Coventry, Keith, Hale, Matt, Noble, Paul, Owen, Peter. "City Racing: The Life and Times of an Artist-Run Gallery ardcover. Black Dog Publishing Ltd; illustrated edition (11 November ...

(painter, sculptor, curator) * John Craxton (Neo-Romantic artist) * Michael Cummings (cartoonist) * Richard Deacon (sculptor, 1987

winner) * Andy Denzler (painter) * Tom Dixon (industrial designer) * Mary Dobson (painter, illustrator) *

Peter Doig Peter Doig ( ; born 17 April 1959) is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting ''White Canoe'' sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction r ...

(painter) * Mojeb al-Dousari (Kuwaiti artist) * Guy Hendrix Dyas (designer) * Cathie Felstead (illustrator) * Nicholas Ferguson (television director and artist) *

Ralph Fiennes Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes ( ; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shak ...

(actor) * Rose Finn-Kelcey (artist) * Jacky Fleming (cartoonist) * Emily Forbes (entrepreneur) * Laura Ford (sculptor) *

(sculptor and printmaker) *

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(artist) *

Grace Golden Grace Lydia Golden (2 April 1904 – 3 June 1993) was an English illustrator and historian. Raised in London, she began illustrating books in the early 1930s and began painting exhibition pieces after becoming the recipient of a small legacy in ...

(painter) * Flavia Irwin (artist) * Nicky Hoberman (painter) *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

(artist) * Bob Holmes (artist and designer) * Nancy Horrocks (painter) * Tom Jenkinson (musician) * Vivien John (painter) *

Anish Kapoor Sir Anish Mikhail Kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Born in Mumbai, Kapoor attended the elite all-boys Indian boarding school The Doon School, before moving to the UK t ...

(1991

winner) * John Latham (conceptual artist) * Elizabeth Jane Lloyd (painter, teacher) * Maria Marshall (artist) * Ryuson Chuzo Matsuyama (painter) * Paul McDowell (vocalist with

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, actor) * Ian McKay (writer) * Steve McQueen (1999

winner, Academy Award-winning director, producer, screenwriter) * Ursula Merchant (cutlery) * Haroon Mirza (artist) * Otonella Mocellin (artist) *

Christopher Monger Christopher Monger (born 1950, in Taffs Well, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh screenwriter, director and editor, best known for writing and directing '' The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain'' and writing the HBO biopic ''Temple ...

(writer, film director) *

Nicholas Monro Nicholas Monro (born London, 1936) is an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher. He is known for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture and is known for his use of fibreglass. Life and work Monro studied ...

(pop art sculptor; also returned as a teacher at Chelsea) * Mariko Mori (artist) * Jill Mulleady (painter) * David Nash (sculptor) * Paul Nash (war artist) * Mike Nelson (2001 and 2007

nominee) * Karen Newman (sculptor) * Lucia Nogueira (artist) * Rupert Norfolk (sculptor) * Diarmuid Byron O'Connor (sculptor and art director) *

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(1998 Turner Prize winner) * John O'Neill (video game designer) * Alex Randall (lighting designer) *

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(Member of Parliament) * James Richards (2014 Turner Prize nominee) *

Alan Rickman Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (21 February 1946 – 14 January 2016) was an English actor and director. Known for his deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespe ...

(actor) *

Barbara Robb Barbara Robb (née Anne, 15 April 1912 – 21 June 1976) was a British campaigner for the well-being of older people, best known for founding and leading the pressure group AEGIS (Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions) and for the book '' ...

(campaigner) * Trevor Robinson (creative director) * Anthony Rossiter (artist) * Andrew Sabin (artist, sculptor) *

Alexei Sayle Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th gre ...

(comedian and actor) *

Conrad Shawcross Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. Shawcross is the youngest living member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Early life Born i ...

(artist) * Clare Shenstone (portrait painter) *

Jake Tilson Jake Tilson (born 1958 in London) is an English artist, graphic designer, writer and publisher. Author and designer of ''A Tale of 12 Kitchens'' (2006), he published the arts magazines ''Cipher'' (1979–1981) and ''Atlas'' (1985–1993), taught ...

(artist) *

Winston Tong Winston Tong (born 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an actor, playwright, visual artist, puppeteer, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his vocals in Tuxedomoon and for winning an Obie award in puppetry for ''Bound Feet'' in 1978. E ...

(ceramics) *

Suzanne Treister Suzanne Treister (born 1958) is a British contemporary artist based in London. Her works are known for being conceptually oriented around emerging technologies. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, a ...

(artist) *

Gavin Turk Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and is considered to be one of the Young British Artists.Tate Modern. (2009)'Pop Life: Art in a Material World' Retrieved 14 August 2012. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of aut ...

(artist) *

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(costume designer) * Ethel Walker (painter) *

Mark Wallinger Mark Wallinger (born 25 May 1959) is a British artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation ''State Britain''. His work ''Ecce Homo'' (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the ...

(2007 Turner Prize winner) * Rebecca Warren (2006 Turner Prize nominee) *

Richard Wathen Richard Llewelyn Wathen is a British painter born in 1971. He lives in Norfolk in England. Wathen graduated with a BA in Fine Art Painting from Winchester School of Art in 1995 and received an MA in Fine Art from the Chelsea School of Art in 1 ...

(painter) *

Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He ...

(1997 Turner Prize winner) *

Chris Welsby Chris Welsby (born in 1948) is a British/Canadian experimental filmmaker, digital media and installation artist. In the 1970s he was a member of the London Film-Makers' Co-op (now LUX film distributors), and co-founder of the Digital Media Stud ...

(experimental filmmaker) * Claudia Williams (painter) * Fred Williams (Australian painter) *

Emily Young Emily Young FRBS (born 1951) is a sculptor, who has been called "Britain's greatest living stone sculptor". She was born in London into a family of artists, writers and politicians. She currently divides her time between studios in London and It ...

(stone sculptor) *

(artist, sculptor)

Notable staff

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References

External links

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Chelsea Space
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