Bath School of Art and Design

Bath School of Art is based at the new, award-winning Locksbrook Campus, on the river Avon, in the west of the city.

[1] The Bath Directory for 1856 shows its location at Weymouth House (roughly the rear of the present Marks and Spencers store) and its Master as Anthony Carey Stannus, an Irish painter noted for marine scenes and who later helped establish a society which evolved into the Royal Ulster Academy.

[5] By 1866 the School was at 33 Paragon, opposite The Star Inn, and the Master was Robert Campbell Puckett, PhD, whose 1871 work "Sciography, or radial projection of shadows" was published by Chapman & Hall of London.

The tuition fee was one guinea per quarter according to the school's prospectus published as a one-page advertisement in the annual Directories.

[13] The School of Art moved to 7 and 8 Green Park early in World War II, when the Beau Street building was taken over by the Admiralty.

A note in the local history section of Bath Central Library[15] records the opening of the new premises by Sir Kenneth Clark, then Director of the National Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Pictures.

The 1983/4 prospectus contained a short history stating that from 1946 the Academy ran two courses at Corsham, one for teacher training and the other a National Diploma in Design with a small intake, with interaction between the two being seen as a particular asset.

In 1974 control of the institution passed to the new Avon County Council and from 1 September 1983 the Academy became part of Bath College of Higher Education.

Visiting artists and tutors have included Kenneth Armitage, William Scott, Terry Frost,[1] Peter Lanyon, Sir Herbert Read, Adrian Heath, Bernard Meadows, Howard Hodgkin,[1] Anthony Fry, Martin Froy, John Colbeck, John Furnival, Gillian Ayres, Peter Potworowski, Claes Oldenburg,[1] James Greaves, Peter Kinley, James Tower, John Hoskin, Mark Lancaster, Michael Craig-Martin,[1] John Ernest,[1] Anthony Hill, Richard Hamilton, Roger Clarke,[1] Jim Dine,[1] Tom Phillips, Jeremy Gardiner and Morton Feldman.