Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the former Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation. It offers further and higher education courses in fine arts, graphic design, interior design, spatial design and textile design to the doctoral level.

History

Polytechnic

Chelsea College of Art and Design was originally a comprehensive school at the University of South-Western Polytechnic, which opened in Manresa Road, Chelsea, in 1895 to provide scientific and technical education to Londoners. Classes day and night for men and women were carried out in the domestic economy, mathematics, engineering, natural science, art and music. The art is taught from the beginning of the Polytechnic, and included the design, weaving, embroidery and electrode position. The South-Western Polytechnic became the Chelsea Polytechnic in 1922 and taught a growing number of students enrolled in the University of London.

In the early 1930s, the School of Art began to expand, including training in crafts and design business since 1931. HS Williamson, director designate of the school from 1930 to 1958, presented the sculpture shortly after World War II. Notable artists of this time were employed as teachers, as Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. Students of this period included Elizabeth Frink, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Ethel Walker, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Clatworthy John Latham and John Berger.

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 University of London in 1966. Chelsea College of Science and Technology its Royal Charter was granted in 1971 and merged with Kings College London and Queen Elizabeth College in 1985.

Chelsea School of Art

The School of Art merged with the Hammer smith School of Art, founded by Francis Hawke, to form the Chelsea School of Art in 1908. The newly formed school was taken by the London County Council and a new building constructed in Lime Grove, which opened with an extensive curriculum. A trade school for girls was erected on the same site in 1914. The school acquired the facilities in Great Titch field Street, and settled with Quintin Hogg Polytechnic in Regent Street. Manresa Road campus painting and graphic design introduced in 1963, with the two disciplines are particularly successful. During this period, Chelsea had the highest enrollment of students of fine arts in a school of its kind in the country, producing many notable artists as Ossip Zadkine, Mark Gertler and Paul Nash.

Lawrence Gowing, painter and art historian, was appointed as the first director of the Chelsea School of Art. He was responsible for the integration of history and theory with practice, employment of artists rather than art historians to teach art history and theory. This approach remains intrinsic to the philosophy of teaching Chelsea today. Under Gowing, an option program was introduced, covering experimental music workshops, poetry, psychoanalysis, philosophy and anthropology. A basic design course, initiated by Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, also developed during the same period, becoming the basis of the university foundation course in art and current design.

Professor William Callaway, director of the School from 1989 to 1992. Colin Cina named Dean of the School of Art, and Bridget Jackson, Dean of the School of Design. These three schools reformed and made sure the new full academic program development, the introduction of courses at various levels from HND to borrowers with honors and graduate degrees. Initially, these were validated by the Council for National Academic Awards UK, ie, in the short period before the London Institute OTOR-winning powers. Bridget Jackson was appointed head of the university in 1993 and retired in 1997 to be succeeded by Professor Colin Cina who led the school 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 Inner London Education Authority to associate London's art, design, and fashion and media schools in collegial 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 2002-2003, Professor Roger Wilson was appointed as head of the university until his retirement in 2006. He led the move to the listed Royal Army Medical College, renovated art school specially designed by architects Allies and Morrison in 2005. With this move, the Chelsea College of Art and Design currently resides next to the Tate Britain in Millbank, becoming a separate campus.