Camberwell College of Arts
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Camberwell College of Arts is an art college in Camberwell, south London. It is part of the University of the Arts London and is on Peckham Road. It offers both further and higher education programmes, including postgraduate awards. It was formerly known as Camberwell School of Art and Crafts.
The College's history is finely intertwined with that of the South London Gallery, with whom the building is shared. 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, the College's first guise, in 1898. Reference : Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts : its students & teachers, 1943-1960 by Geoff Hassell. Published by Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1995. ISBN 1851491805.
[edit] Notable alumni
- Gillian Ayres, 1989 Turner Prize nominee
- Roger 'Syd' Barrett, musician, founding member Pink Floyd
- Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
- Lady Sarah Chatto, artist
- Cathy de Monchaux, 1998 Turner Prize nominee
- Terry Frost, artist
- Maggi Hambling, artist
- Howard Hodgkin, 1985 Turner Prize winner
- R. B. Kitaj, artist
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, interior designer, TV presenter
- Mike Leigh, film director
- Richard Long, 1989 Turner Prize winner
- Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician
- Mark McGowan, artist
- Tom Phillips, painter and collagist
- Euan Uglow, artist
- Georgina von Etzdorf, textile designer
- Tim Roth, actor