CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF ART
Cambridge School of Art, the original School of Art was founded by William John Beamont (16 January 1828-6 August 1868) and opened in 1858 by renowned British art critic, draughtsman, watercolourist, and prominent social thinker John Ruskin (8 February 1819–20 January 1900). Its original location was near Sidney Sussex College, later moving to its present location in East Road, Cambridge. Legendary cartoonist and graphic artist Ronald William Fordham Searle (3 March 1920–30 December 2011) studied here, as did Edward Bawden, one of Britain’s greatest graphic artists, illustrators and printmakers, and Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926-1 March 2017), the pioneer of auto-destructive art. In 1953 Odile Crick (11 August 1920-5 July 2007), a lecturer at Cambridge School of Art, drew the original sketch of the DNA double helix, to illustrate the pioneering work by geneticists Crick and Watson at Cambridge University. During the highly creative and experimental 1960s, the School was home to many talented tutors and gifted students, including caricaturists Roger Law (6 September 1941-) and Peter Fluck (7 April 1941-) of Spitting Image fame and Pink Floyd members Syd Barrett (6 January 1946–7 July 2006) and Dave Gilmour (6 March 1946-) who played one of their first gigs from the balcony of the Ruskin studios at Christmas 1966. Other alumni and staff have included Chloë Cheese (December 1952-), Allan Drummond, Walter Hoyle (July 1922-7 April 2000), Arthur Paul Hogarth (4 October 1917-27 December 2001), Warwick Hutton, Adrian Ryan, John Norris Wood and Principal John Bolam (21 January 1922-5 February 2009). In 1960 this became the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT) and in 1989 CCAT merged with the Essex Institute of Higher Education to form the Anglia Higher Education College. The merged college became a polytechnic in 1991, using the name Anglia Polytechnic, and was then awarded university status in 1992. The art school has since grown grew to become an integral part of Anglia Ruskin University, and it’s still at the heart of the modern-day campus in Cambridge. Suffolk artists students at the Cambridge School of Art/Polytechnic include Amanda Bell; Emma Buckmaster; Mark Copeland; Olivia Daw; Maureen Frost; Peter Anthony Froste; Beverley Gooding; George Hayward; Melissa Hemmens; Geoffrey St John Hollis; Jason Lewis; Geoffrey Marsters; Diana Mckenna; Evelyn Polk; Robert Sadler; John Thomas Scrivener; Glynn Thomas and others.
Website: https://www.aru.ac.uk