CAMBERWELL SCHOOL OF ARTS & CRAFTS
John Passmore Edwards (24 March 1823–22 April 1911), journalist, newspaper owner and philanthropist, funded many public galleries, libraries, and hospitals, including a Lecture Hall and Library at the South London Art Gallery. He also paid for the art school next to the gallery to be built now called Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts which opened on the Peckham Road, Camberwell in 1898. Under the aegis of the London County Council, is offering day and evening instruction across a wide range of subjects from architecture, furniture design, life drawing and stained-glass work to dressmaking, pottery, and typography. In 1938 William Johnstone (8 June 1897-1 July 1981) was appointed principal and he soon established the reputation of the School as a fundamental influence on art development throughout the country when, after the end of the Second World War, he brought together many of the notable artists formerly associated with the Euston Road School who included William Menzies Coldstream, Lawrence Burnett Gowing (21 April 1918-5 February 1991), Victor Pasmore (3 December 1908-23 January 1998), Claude Rogers and William Townsend (23 February 1909-4 July 1973). The ethos of these artists was to last for a considerable time but like many other art establishments, the School saw its own decline into an adjunct of a polytechnic when by 1992 it had lost its irreplaceable Fine Art course which had established its reputation. It was amalgamated into the London Institute, which changed its name upon being awarded university status in 2004 as the University of the Arts, London. The University incorporates Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, St Martin's School of Art, Chelsea School of Art, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion, and Wimbledon School of Art or their name successors. There are over 100 Suffolk Artists who studied at Camberwell.