EASTBOURNE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS

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Eastbourne School of Art which is also referred to as Eastbourne School of Arts and Crafts, Eastbourne School of Art and Design and Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology in the seaside town in Sussex. The exact year of its foundation has yet to be known, but there were students at the school in the years before the First World War. Around 1962, Eastbourne School of Arts and Crafts acquired 'Eversley Court', St Anne's Road, formerly used by Ascham House Gentlemen's School and they renamed the College of Art and Design, Eastbourne. In 1980 it merged with the College of Further Education, Eastbourne and in 1987 renamed Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology. It merged with several other Sussex schools to become East Sussex College Group the largest higher education college in East Sussex, providing education and training from foundation to degree level. The college educates over 8,000 adults each year at campuses in Lewes, Eastbourne, Hastings, and Newhaven, and in the workplace. Its alumni included Eric William Ravilious (1903-1942) who studied at the School 1919-1922 and taught there in the 1920s, illustrator Tirzah Eileen Lucy Garwood (1908-1951) who studied under Ravilous in the 1920s and whom she married in 1930. Artist Frank Joseph Archer (1912-1995) attended the School 1928-1932 and the painter and illustrator Frank Anthony Albert Wootton (1914-1998) who also studied under Ravilious and another teacher was Winifred Rushton. Suffolk artists who studied at Eastbourne include Charles Bartlett, Paul Evans, Denzil Reeves, Peter Swaffer and Bruce Carrington Windo and with the East Sussex College Group Kirsty Stutter.