Ealing Art College
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Ealing Art College was a higher education institution on St Mary's Road, Ealing, London, England. The site today is the Ealing campus of Thames Valley University. In the early 1960s it was the site of the "Groundcourse", a radical and influential experiment in art education, led by Roy Ascott, with a team of artists including R B Kitaj, Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen, Brian Wall.
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The college was attended by notable musicians Pete Townshend (of The Who), Freddie Mercury (of Queen), Ron Wood of The Faces and The Rolling Stones, and Ray Davies of The Kinks. Another famous attendee was the writer Robert Rankin, who was at Ealing at the same time as Mercury.