Ealing Art College

In the early 1960s the School of Art was composed of Fashion, Graphics, Industrial Design, Photography and Fine Art Departments, and the college was attended by notable musicians Freddie Mercury, Ronnie Wood, and Pete Townshend, and Oscar-winning illustrator Alan Lee.

The College offered External London University courses in the 1960s. The BA degree and BSc Economics with specialisation in various components like Geography, Economics and Law, attracted many British and foreign students, and also lecturers from various London University Colleges.

There was also a School of Liberal Arts that offered secretarial and undergraduate language courses in French, Spanish, German and Russian and included a semester at L'ecole d'interpretes, University of Geneva. It was considered revolutionary at the time.

The two-year Groundcourse was held in the annexe to the Art School. The "Groundcourse" was a radical and influential experiment in art education, led by Roy Ascott with a team of artists including R B Kitaj and Anthony Benjamin. For a few years in the 1970s, the college had a separate campus at Woodlands Avenue, Acton, where the Schools of Librarianship and Management were based.

• Vic Duppa-Whyte – Paper engineer, pop-up books creator
• Michael English – English psychedelic artist-musician with Hapshash and the Coloured Coat
• Gideon Gechtman – Israeli artist and sculptor
• Alan Lee – English illustrator (won an Oscar for his work on the Lord of the Rings movie)
• Arthur Ted Powell – advertising art director and artist
• Barbara Tate – artist and author
• Stephen Willats - artist
• Fiona Adams - Photographer. Took the 'Jumping Beatles' picture John Lennon chose for the cover of their 1963 EP Twist and Shout

• Pete Townshend – lead guitarist of The Who[https://web.archive.org/web/20101109001758/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/how-one-man-wove-a-kind-of-magic--in-ealing-678294.html "How one man wove a kind of magic in Ealing"], The Independent. Retrieved 2 July 2011{{cite web|last1=Clarke|first1=Russell|last2=Gould|first2=Dennis|title=Letters: Gustav Metzger obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/26/letters-gustav-metzger-obituary|website=The Guardian|access-date=2 August 2017|date=26 March 2017}}
• Freddie Mercury – lead singer of Queen{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Laura|title=Freddie Mercury: The biography|date=2011|publisher=Little, Brown Book Group|isbn=9780748129072|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7uCPAit0AtUC&q=%C2%A0Ealing+Technical+College+%26+School+of+Art&pg=PT11|access-date=2 August 2017|language=en}}
• Tim Staffell – lead singer and bassist of Smile, precursor band to Queen
• Roger Ruskin Spear – saxophonist, robots and theremin leg in The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band{{cite book|last1=Richards|first1=Matt|last2=Langthorne|first2=Mark|title=Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury|date=2016|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781681881881|page=151|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Nt_DQAAQBAJ&q=%C2%A0Ealing+Technical+College+%26+School+of+Art&pg=PT17|access-date=2 August 2017|language=en}}
• Ronnie Wood – guitarist of Faces and The Rolling Stones

• Michael Molloy – ex-editor of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror
• Robert Rankin – best-selling author, illustrator and sculptor
• Michael Lawrence – author of many books for children and young adults
• John Van der Kiste – author (his novel Always There is based partly on his student days at Ealing)

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Category:Education in the London Borough of Ealing

Category:Art schools in London

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