Ealing Art College
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Ealing Art College was in fact 'Ealing Technical College & School of Art' a Further 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 the School of Art was comprised of Fashion, Graphics & Fine Art Departments. The two-year ground course was held in the annex to the Art School. The Principal in 1967 was James Drew. 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, Ray Davies of The Kinks, Robert Voegeli of The Goldhawks and Panic. Another famous attendee was the writer Robert Rankin, who was at Ealing at the same time as Mercury.
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