Camberwell College of Arts is a

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Camberwell Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross. Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This ...

, in London, England. It is one of the six constituent colleges of the

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. It offers further and

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programmes, including

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and

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awards. The college has retained single degree options within Fine Art, offering specialist

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courses in painting, sculpture, photography and drawing. It also runs graduate and postgraduate courses in art conservation and

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as well as design courses such as

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, illustration and 3D design. It was established as the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in 1898, and adopted its present name in 1989.

History

The history of the College is closely linked with that of the South London Gallery, with which the College shares its site. The manager of the South London Working Men's College in 1868, William Rossiter, purchased the freehold of Portland House on which the College now stands in 1889. The resulting Gallery opened in 1891, followed by the Technical Institute in 1898. The architect was

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Murice Bingham Adams Originally, the school offered classes in specific trades. By 1920, a Fine Art Department had been created. During the

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was appointed head of the painting department. Many well-known artists, including Frank Auerbach, Lawrence Gowing and

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taught at Camberwell during this period. In 1973, the School expanded into a modern purpose-built block next to the existing premises. Both of them are now

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. In the 1980s, Wendy Smith became the head of Fine Art and employed Noel Forster, John Hilliard, Cornelia Parker,

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, Gavin Jantjes and Ian McKeever. Tony Messenger and Eileen Hogan took charge of the graphics department, Eileen Hogan established and ran The Camberwell Press, and Eric Ayers presided over the typography school. Camberwell temporarily lost its Fine Art courses but by 2004 the department had been fully restored to the College.

Research

Camberwell is part of the University of the Arts London and its Research Network (RNUAL), which also includes

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, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and

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 ...

Affiliations

Camberwell and its sister colleges Chelsea College of Art and Design and Wimbledon College of Art makes up CCW, a three college model that allows sharing of resources between colleges. CCW combined their foundation courses from the academic year starting in September 2011, and bases them at the Wilson Road campus in Camberwell.

Peckham Platform

Peckham Platform is a public gallery dedicated to location-specific artwork made locally. Originally known as Peckham Space and part of Camberwell, in 2013 it became an independent charity.

Notable alumni

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(sculptor) * Reginald Fairfax Wells (Sculptor and potter) * Bernadette Ash (artist) *

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(1989

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nominee) *

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Irene Bache Irene Mary Bache (23 March 1901 – 24 May 1999) was a British artist. Although born in London, and widely travelled, Bache lived and established her career in Wales, in and around Swansea. Biography Bache was born in Brockley in south London ...

(artist) * Jeff Banks (graphic designer and TV presenter) * Roger "Syd" Barrett (musician, artist) * Kate Blacker (artist) *

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(artist) * Charles William Cain (artist) *

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 ...

(potter) *

Gillian Carnegie Gillian Carnegie (born 1971 in Suffolkbr> is an England, English artist. Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Carnegie works within traditional categories of painting – still life, landscape, ...

(2005 Turner Prize nominee) *

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(artist) * Alan Charlton (artist) * Sue Clowes (fashion designer) * Darren Coffield (artist) *

Joshua Compston Joshua Richard Compston (1 June 1970 – 5 March 1996) was a London curator and progressive thinker, whose company Factual Nonsense was closely associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists (YBAs). Early life and career beginnings ...

(curator) *

Jean Cooke Jean Esme Oregon Cooke RA (18 February 1927 – 6 August 2008) was an English painter of still lifes, landscapes, portraits and figures. She was a lecturer at the Royal Academy and regularly exhibited her works, including the summer Royal Acad ...

(artist) * Neisha Crosland (textile designer) *

Sheila Mary Denning Sheila Mary Denning (1920–2015) was a British painter. Early life Sheila Mary Denning was born in West Sussex to an English mother and Irish GP father. After a sheltered rural childhood spent mostly in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and two ...

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Uzo Egonu Uzo Egonu (25 December 1931 – 14 August 1996) was a Nigerian-born artist who settled in Britain in the 1940s,

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Georgina von Etzdorf Georgina von Etzdorf ( RDI) (born 1 January 1955) is a British textile designer whose eponymous fashion label was renowned for its luxurious velvet scarves and clothing accessories. Early life Etzdorf was born in 1955 in Lima, Peru, to a Prussian ...

(textile designer) * Anthony Eyton (artist) *

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(artist, writer, jazz musician, performer) * Valerian Bernard Freyberg, 3rd Baron Freyberg (British

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Sir Terry Frost Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...

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Edith Galliner Edith Marguerite Galliner, née Goldschmidt, (1914–2000) was an Anglo-German artist who painted in acrylic and produced pottery, collages and etchings. Galliner was born in England but grew up in Germany only to return to England when the Naz ...

(artist) *

Nicky Gavron Felicia Nicolette C. Gavron (born November 1941) is a British politician who served as Deputy Mayor of London to Ken Livingstone from 2000 to 2003 and 2004 to 2008. She was a member of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2021 and was the former ...

(politician) *

Catherine Goodman Catherine Anne Goodman LVO (born 1961) is an English artist, and co-founder with King Charles III of the Royal Drawing School. Biography Goodman was born in London in 1961. She studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London from 1979 t ...

(artist, BP Portrait Award winner) *

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winner) *

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(1985 Turner Prize winner) * Eileen Hogan (artist) * Rachael House (artist) *

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(artist) *

Andy Dog Johnson Andrew Johnson (6 January 1959 – 18 January 2016) was a British artist best known for designing Some Bizzare Records' record sleeves for artists The The, his brother Matt Johnson's band, in the 1980s and 1990s which were produced under the ...

(artist and illustrator) * David Jones (artist and poet) * Lucy Jones * Zebedee Jones (artist) * John Keane (artist) * John Kiki (figurative painter)Keith Roberts (2018) ''John Kiki: Fifty Years in the Figurative Fold'' 192pp. Selwyn Taylor Limited. *

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(publisher) * R. B. Kitaj (artist) * Svetlana K-Lie (artist) * Peter, Hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia (aka, Petar III Karađorđević) (graphic design) *

Nigel Konstam Nigel Konstam (8 December 1932 – 19 July 2022) was a British sculptor and art historian who has researched the history of art and lectured internationally on art historical subjects. He specialised in exploring the development of Man's ability ...

(sculptor) * Dimitri Launder (artist) * Natasha Law (artist) *

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(film director) * Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (interior designer and TV presenter) *

Humphrey Lyttelton Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family. Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a professional ...

(jazz musician) * Raphael Maklouf (sculptor) *

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(artist) *

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(sculptor) *

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(1998 Turner Prize nominee) * Junko Mori (artist) * Annie Morris (artist) *

Malcolm Morley Malcolm A. Morley (June 7, 1931 – June 1, 2018) was a British-American artist and painter. He was known as an artist who pioneered in varying styles, working as a photorealist and an expressionist, among many other styles. Life Morley was ...

(1984 Turner Prize winner) * Kate Moross (designer/illustrator) *

Gregor Muir Gregor Muir is Director of Collection, International Art, at Tate (based at Tate Modern), having previously been the Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from 2011 until 2016. He was the director of Hauser & Wirth, L ...

(director, ICA, London) * Ella Naper (artist) * Frank Newbould (poster artist) * Dennis H. Osborne (artist) *

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(artist) * Daf Palfrey (film producer) * Tom Phillips R.A. CBE (artist) * Liz Pichon (illustrator) *

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(musician) *

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(musician) *

Ruth Raymond Florence Laura Ruth Raymond (1897–1986) was a British painter, calligrapher and weaver. Biography Raymond was born and raised in Greenwich in London where she attended The John Roan School before studying at the Camberwell School of Arts and ...

(artist) *

Matthew Ritchie Matthew Ritchie (born 1964) is a British artist who currently lives and works in New York City. He attended the Camberwell School of Art from 1983 to 1986. He describes himself as "classically trained" but also points to a minimalist influence. ...

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(artist) *

Daniel Sturgis Daniel Sturgis (born 1966) is a British painter living and working in London, England. Life and work Daniel Sturgis was born in London, and studied art at the London College of Printing, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts before going to G ...

(artist) *

Angus Suttie Angus Suttie (26 November 1946 – 17 June 1993) was a studio potter and teacher of art ceramics, most notably at Morley College, London. Suttie studied at Camberwell School of Art under Glennys Barton, Ewen Henderson and Colin Pearson. This e ...

(potter) * Alan Thornhill (sculptor) *

Euan Uglow Euan Ernest Richard Uglow (10 March 1932 – 31 August 2000) was a British painter. He is best known for his nude and still life paintings, such as ''German Girl'' and ''Skull''. Biography Euan Uglow was born in 1932 in London. As a child, he l ...

(artist) * Keith Vaughan (artist) * Florence Welch (musician) * Alexander Williams (animator) *

Denis Williams Denis Williams (1 February 1923 – 28 June 1998)Petamber Persaud"The Life and Work of Denis Williams (1923–1998), The Shaping of Guyanese Literature" ''Guyana Times International'', 23 November 2012. was a Guyanese painter, author and arc ...

(artist) *

Joe Wright Joseph Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director residing in Somerset, England. His motion pictures include the literary adaptations ''Pride & Prejudice'' (2005), ''Atonement'' (2007), ''Anna Karenina'' (2012), and '' Cyrano'' ( ...

( BAFTA award-winning director)

Notable academics

* Yolanda Sonnabend (theatre and ballet designer and painter)

References

External links

College website
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History

Research

Affiliations

Peckham Platform

Notable alumni

Notable academics

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Further reading

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