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Modern Art Education and Schools
Today's featured contemporary artist in the Red Rag Modern Art Education Directory
is Simon GARDEN. Click on the image below to view
more art works from Simon GARDEN.
Simon GARDEN
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Aberdeen Art Schools
Gray's School of Art
The Robert Gordon University
Garthdee RoadAberdeenAberdeenshireAB10 7QD Dedicated Art College
Gray's is the smallest of the major Scottish art schools, and the only one to require Fine Art students to choose a discipline and stick to it ' from painting, sculpture, printmaking and the more recently added "photographic and electronic media" (PEM). It is one of just two art schools in UK offering a degree in printmaking
Gray's School of Art aims to provide a focal point in the creative culture of Aberdeen and Scotland. Gray's looks to furnish art students with invaluable visual, intellectual, social and communication skills developed in a collaborative and intimate environment, while preparing them for diverse careers
Graduate of Gray's School -Scottish artist Louis McNally
Past art students of Gray's School of Art include: Kelly Anne Cairns, Jane Cruickshank, Lynn Rodgie and Stephen Shankland
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Belfast Art Schools
St. Mary's University College
191 Falls RoadBelfastBelfastBT12 6FEThere are facilities for fine art, ceramics, textiles and multi media design with full technical support. An annual exhibition of artwork provides students with a public platform for their artistic achievement.
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University of Ulster
Belfast Campus
York StreetBelfastBelfastBT15 1ED
The University is a natural focus for arts and culture with an extensive arts programme. The Belfast campus on York Street is home to the School of Art and Design and the School of Architecture and Design. As the result of a £30 million campus refurbishment and redevelopment scheme, Irish art students now benefit from excellent purpose-built design studios, exhibitions areas and catering facilities.
The School of Art and Design covers painting, textiles, ceramics and multimedia. Art works by staff and students are exhibited at each campus as part of the Permanent Works of Art Collection.
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Ballyvaughan Art Schools
Burren College of Art
Newtown CastleBallyvaughanClareAn internationally recognised not for profit charitable trust committed to the initial education of artists, and to their continuing professional development.
The art college offers graduate, undergraduate and artist residency programmes to students and artists from around the world.
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Bishopstown Art Schools
CIT Crawford College of Art & Design
Sharman Crawford StreetBishopstownCork Dedicated Art College
The CIT Crawford College of Art & Design has provided education in the arts for over 200 years. Located in the city of Cork,Ireland, the art college has a proud tradition in the fields of fine art, ceramic design, art teacher training, art therapy and adult education in the creative arts. The CIT Crawford College offers full-time courses to Bachelors Degree, Masters and HigherDiploma levels, all validated by CIT and the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC). Both nationally and internationally. Former Crawford Art Student ' Brian Smythe
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Plymouth Art Schools
Plymouth College of Art
Tavistock PlacePlymouthDevonPL4 8AT Dedicated Art College Plymouth Art College is one of only four remaining independent colleges of art and design in the UK with a history dating back 153 years. Art students at Plymouth College of Art should find creative education supported by good technical and studio resources, and mentoring by college staff who are passionate about teaching and provide unrivalled specialist expertise across the Fine Arts, the Applied Arts, Design and Media.
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Totnes Art Schools
Dartington College of Arts
Dartington HallTotnesDevonTQ9Dartington College of Arts is a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon. It specialises in post-dramatic theatre, music, performance writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this, lecturing staff are all in some way active arts practitioners. The college has an international reputation for excellence, and aims to promote a critical self awareness in contemporary arts practice, and as such is firmly entrenched in post-modernism.
The art college was founded in 1961. Academic degrees are validated in partnership with the University of Plymouth. University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts in 2008
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Dublin 10 Art Schools
Ballyfermot College of Further Education
Kylemore Road
BallyfermotDublin 10Dublin CountyThe college provides a Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design course. It is a two year full-time course from which graduates gain entry each year to degree programmes in Art Universities and Colleges in Ireland
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Dublin 4 Art Schools
University College Dublin (UCD)
School of Art
Newman BuildingDublin 4Dublin County
UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy comprises a full course of undergraduate studies in Art History within the BA programme for both day and modular students and postgraduate studies at all levels in Art History and in Cultural Policy and Arts Management.
Art History is concerned with visual culture: with painting, sculpture, architecture and the decorative arts. Students are encouraged to develop both their visual and their intellectual skills. The inherent interdisciplinary of the subject enables interesting interconnections with a broad range of other Arts subjects. Prior study of the subject is not necessary for entry to level 1 Art History.
Graduate of University College Dublin - Val Byrne
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Dublin 6 Art Schools
Dublin Institute of Technology - Faculty of Applied Arts
Rathmines RoadDublin 6Dublin CountyThe Faculty of Applied Arts at DIT is the Republic of Ireland's largest provider of professional training in visual and performing arts and the media
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Dublin 8 Art Schools
The National College of Art and Design
100 Thomas StreetDublin 8Dublin County Dedicated Art College
For 250 years the history of this College has reflected the growth and changes in the visual consciousness of a developing Irish culture. The College's main campus is situated in Thomas Street in the historic Liberties area of Dublin.
As the visual arts in Ireland has progressed the College has played a major part in educating a new generation of Irish artists who are gaining national and international recognition. The College aims to educate art students to understand and master new visual technologies within the broad humanistic ideals that this College has always maintained Former Art Student of NCAD ' Paul Christopher Flynn
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Dundee Art Schools
Duncan of Jordanstone and College of Art and Design
Perth RoadDundeeDundeeDD1 4HT Dedicated Art College
Duncan of Jordanstone and College of Art and Design was established as part of the Dundee Institute of Art and Technology in 1892. It became an autonomous institution in 1975 before merging with the University of Dundee in 1996. It is regarded as one of the leading Colleges of Art and Design in Britain. There are approximately 1000 undergraduate, taught Masters and research postgraduate students. As part of a modern University, students and staff at DJCAD can take advantage of all that a large educational institution has to offer, whilst retaining the special ethos of a Scottish College of Art. Past art students of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design include: Jack Morrocco, Deborah Phillips, Saul Robertson and David Schofield
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Winchester Art Schools
University of Southampton - Winchester School of Art
Park AvenueWinchesterHampshireSO23 8DL University with Art School Originally founded more than 130 years ago, Winchester School of Art joined the University of Southampton in 1996. The art school aims to offer some of the most flexible and dynamic programmes in the UK. The range of art undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities span the spectrum of painting, sculpture, fashion, graphic design, advertising design, photography & design.
Winchester School of Art offers access to help and support. Teaching methods are studio-based and theoretical practice. The broad range of programmes - including lectures, seminars, workshop sessions, work placements and guest speakers - offers considerable flexibility
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Inverness Art Schools
UHI Millennium Institute
Ness WalkInvernessHighlandIV3 5SQ
UHI is a partnership of colleges, learning and research centres, working together to provide university-level education to people throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and beyond. The UHI Millennium Institute works in partnership with The Studio Art School, who offer practical art and design courses online.
The Studio Art School is a UK Art and Design school who offer a range of practical art courses suited to all levels of ability. The aim is to provide art students with the very best tuition, support and advice. The Studio Art School is approved by the City & Guilds of London Institute, and is the only centre in the UK with approval to offer the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design by distance learning.
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Loughborough Art Schools
Loughborough School of Art and Design
Epinal WayLoughboroughLeicestershireLE11 3TU University with Art School The School of Art and Design at Loughborough University provides art courses ranging from Foundation course to undergraduate BA (Hons) programmes in art and design plus MA by individual project. As a full-service art and design department within a well-established campus University, the art school is able to offer a range of programmes and facilities to art students.
Art courses are designed to enable individual skills as an artist/designer in a challenging atmosphere of contemporary practice, critical debate and professional dialogue. Each programme is aimed at bringing technical expertise together with critical and conceptual content so that art student-practitioners develop their own work within each chosen field. The School of Art and Design has been rated amongst the top five University art and design providers in national surveys
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Limerick Art Schools
Limerick School of Art and Design
Old Clear StreetLimerickLimerick
The Institute traces its origins back to 1852 when the Athenaeum Society started a School Of Arts and Fine Crafts in Limerick. Limerick School of Art offers painting courses which seek to provide art students with a broad range of skills that can be developed and adapted in a variety of ways. The Course provides the physical and intellectual environment for students to gain a greater personal awareness of visual language, and to be able to organise and translate that experience in the production of engaging works. It places emphasis on the procedural approaches to painting practice, familiarising students with basic tools, media and technique. Former Limerick Art Student ' Robert Ryan
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Camberwell College of Art - University of the Arts London
65 Davies StreetLondonW1K 5DA Dedicated Art College Camberwell Art College is one of the leading art and design institutions and have been welcoming art students to South London for over a century
Camberwell has a name for high quality teaching by leading practitioners - teaching that has put artists and designers on the road to international prominence and many others on the path to fulfillment in their chosen practice. Red Rag British artist Richard Dack
is a past art student of Camberwell Art College
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London Art Schools
Central Saint Martins College of Art
Southampton RowLondonLondonWC1B 4AP Dedicated Art College Central Saint Martinsdescribes itself as the complete arts College providing unrivalled opportunities to enable art students to realise their potential and make a significant contribution to the 21st century. The art college was formed in 1989 from the merger of the Central School of Arts and Crafts (founded 1896) and St Martin's School of Art (founded 1854).
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Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip StreetLondonLondonSW1P 4JU Dedicated Art College Chelsea College of Art and Design is described as based at the heart of the cultural and creative capital of the world, the natural home for modern and pioneering art and design education. The art college Millbank campus is situated just a few steps from Tate Britain and overlooking the flow of the Thames alongside. Chelsea is somewhere that aspires to consistently challenge, inspire, surprise and stimulate art students
Chelsea art college also works closely with two other art colleges within University of the Arts London: Camberwell College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Art. The aim is to develop a provision across the three British art colleges with the aim of delivering an art and design educational programme for students that is second to none
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Goldsmiths, University of London
Lewisham Way
New CrossLondonLondonSE14 6NW Dedicated Art College Goldsmith art college states that they look at subjects in creative and unconventional ways, but everything they do is based on the highest academic standards of teaching and research.
A high proportion of Goldsmith art students are from international backgrounds which students helps create a diverse student population. The list of former art students includes Antony Gormley, Julian Clary, Damien Hirst, Mary Quant, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor-Wood, Graham Coxon and Malcolm McLaren
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Royal College of Art
Kensington GoreLondonLondon SW7 2EU Dedicated Art College The Royal College of Art is located in the heart of London. Art courses are taught by internationally renowned artists, practitioners and theorists
The art college has access to state-of-the-art facilities and research resources, contributing to an outstanding creative and intellectual environment. As well as welcoming art students from around the world, the College's global dimension is enhanced through partnerships with leading art and design, cultural and educational institutions and though extensive links with business, both nationally and internationally
The art college claims that it is the only wholly postgraduate university of art and design in the world ' where students and staff study and practice art in a design environment, and design in an art environment. Their Royal Charter, granted in 1967, specifies that the purpose of the College is "to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts'¦through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce" British artists Fred Cuming and Ken Howard
are past art students of the Royal College of Art
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Slade School of Fine Art - University College London
Gower StreetLondonLondonWC1E 6BT Dedicated Art College The Slade School of Fine Art is concerned with contemporary art and the practice, history and theories that inform it. It approaches the study and practice of art in an enquiring, investigative, experimental and research-minded way. Slade facilities and infrastructure for research support the discourse around painting, sculpture and fine art media. In the recent 2008 RAE, 70% of the department's research activity was recognised as being in the top two categories of 4* ('world leading') or 3* ('internationally excellent'). This result confirms that the Slade is one of England's leading university departments for research in Fine Art.
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Londonderry Art Schools
University of Ulster - Art and Design
Northland RoadLondonderryLondonderryBT48 7JL The Research Institute Art and Design is substantial in size with academic staff actively engaged in research, knowledge and technology exchange as well as teaching. The unit gained a '5'grade in the Research Assessment Exercise in 2001 and currently ranks in the top ten units of Art and Design in the UK.
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Edinburgh Art Schools
Edinburgh College of Art
Lauriston Place
Old TownEdinburghLothianEH3 9DF Dedicated Art College
An independent Scottish art and design school renowned for providing high quality of experience for its students through stimulating and supportive learning environment. Edinburgh College of Art offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree courses in a wide range of art disciplines such as fine art, drawing, painting, tapestry, printmaking, animation photography, interior design, fashion & textiles, jewellery, sculpture and many more.
Edinburgh College of Art Graduate -Scottish artist John Nelson Past art students of Edinburgh College of Art include: Stephanie Dees, John Nelson and James Somerville
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Leith School of Art
25 North Junction StreetEdinburghLothianEH6 6HW Dedicated Art College
Leith School of Art is a small and unique Scottish art school. The art school is committed to the teaching and practice of art and design believing it is essential to teach the critical elements of art and design to encourage substantial individual development.
The art teaching itself is a creative process. Leith Art school renews and refreshes the art courses to stimulate and nurture the growth of each person's artistic gift. Their aim is to create an art school with a vital artistic life emphasising both tradition and innovation, to produce art work of distinctive quality and character.
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Elgin Art Schools
Moray School of Art
Moray College
Moray StreetElginMorayIV30 1JJ
The Art School at Moray College UHI is the newest art school in Scotland. It provides a range of Further and Higher Education courses, notably the innovative BA (Hons) Fine Art. The Art School is part of the UHI Millennium Institute which provides degree education across the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Moray School of Art works in partnership with Colleges across UHI to provide a unique blend of educational opportunities for students in rural locations.
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Norwich Art Schools
Norwich University College of the Arts
Francis House
3-7 Redwell StreetNorwichNorfolkNR2 4SN Dedicated Art College Although its history can be traced back to 1845, the name Norwich University College of the Arts came into existence in 2008. Today the Arts College has almost 1,500 art students, studying a wide range of arts, design and media disciplines at Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral level.
The art college is based in a campus in the heart of Norwich in a range of buildings ranging from medieval to modern. Research degrees are offered in partnership with the University of the Arts, London
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Oxford Art Schools
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane CampusOxfordOxfordshireOX3 0PB University with Art School The university can trace its history back to 1865 with the foundation of the Oxford School of Art.In 1992 it was renamed after John Henry Brooks the first Principle of the Schools of Technology, Art and Commerce
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Glasgow Art Schools
Glasgow School of Art
67 Renfrew Street
TownheadGlasgowStrathclydeG3 6RQ Dedicated Art College
One of four Scottish higher education art and design schools in Scotland offering courses in the fields of fine art, design and architecture. Fine art students are offered training in a stimulating atmosphere at the Glasgow School of Art. The school allows students to focus on the medium of their choice, and the curriculum includes both studio work and art history.
Graduate of Glasgow Art School -Scottish artist Joe Hargan
Past art graduates from Glasgow School of Art include: Margaretann Bennett, George Birrell, Pam Carter, Emma Davis, George Devlin, Denise Findlay, Archie Forrest, Robert Kelsey, Alan King, Jock MacInnes and Charles MacQueen
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Birmingham Art Schools
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Gosta Green
Corporation StreetBirminghamWest-MidlandsB4 7DX Dedicated Art College
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Wolverhampton Art Schools
University of Wolverhampton - School of Art & Design
City Campus - North
Molineux StreetWolverhamptonWest-MidlandsWV1 1DTUniversity with Art School The School of Art & Design at Wolverhampton towers over the heart of the city, a funky, flashing, neon installation on its concrete and glass west face making it a landmark building.
A recent multi-million pound re-fit means it's now also a beacon for some of the best art facilities in the country.
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