City & Guilds of London Art School

City & Guilds of London Art School The Art School is a small-scale, not-for-profit, specialist higher education provider.

The Art School specialises in the study of contemporary Fine Art, Carving, Art Histories and the Conservation of cultural artefacts and books & paper. Committed to championing hand skills and ‘thinking through making’, the Art School offers intensive post graduate, undergraduate and foundation level courses, with the only BA and MA carving courses available in the UK. Teaching is underpinned by an emphasis on material understanding, rigorous art historical research, live projects with industry partners and the exploration of traditional skills alongside experimentation and innovation. National Student Survey results indicate high levels of satisfaction and a recent Quality Assurance Agency review highlighted three areas of notable good practice including the distinctive shared staff and student professional practice environment. The Art School has an extensive professional network and has partnered with Tokyo University of the Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum, British Museum, Southwark Cathedral, Winsor & Newton, Acme, Michelangelo Foundation and Venice in Peril among others. Its high standards are recognized by the number of foundations and individuals who provide bursaries and scholarships, with circa 40% of students receiving financial support.

JOIN THE TEAM 📣We are seeking applications for a 1 to 2 year Artist Glass Fellow.The successful applicant will have an u...
15/09/2026

JOIN THE TEAM 📣

We are seeking applications for a 1 to 2 year Artist Glass Fellow.

The successful applicant will have an undergraduate and postgraduate qualification in Fine Art/ Sculpture or equivalent, and will be able to demonstrate a commitment to contemporary art practice that involves glass or glass-based practices.

The Glass Workshop is a small but dynamic learning facility where students from across the Art School’s courses are introduced to and taught processes involved in working with glass, particularly slumping, casting and construction. The post offers a unique opportunity for an artist to develop their own practice in the context of the Art School’s Glass Workshop, working alongside artist Anne Petters, who runs the facility, with additional technical input from artist Philippa Beveridge.

🔗 Visit our website for full information on the opportunity and how to apply.

Closing date: 21 September 2026 at 23:59
Interviews: w/c 28 September 2026 (TBC)
Start date: 5 October 2026 (TBC – date to be agreed)

📸 Image Credit: Work by Anne Petters ()

Places are still available for our Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Open Day on Tuesday 6 October at 11am and ...
14/09/2026

Places are still available for our Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Open Day on Tuesday 6 October at 11am and 2pm

Discover what makes studying at City & Guilds of London Art School so unique, meet course staff, chat with current students, and explore our studios, workshops and facilities.

This Open Day is for applicants to:
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
BA (Hons) Fine Art
BA (Hons) Carving: Woodcarving & Gilding
BA (Hons) Carving: Architectural Stone
BA (Hons) Conservation: Books & Paper
BA (Hons) Conservation: Stone, Wood & Decorative Surfaces
Graduate Diploma Arts: Mosaics
MA Fine Art
MA Carving
MA Conservation
MA Conservation: Collection Care & Management

📆 Tuesday 6 October at 11am and 2pm
📍 124 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4DJ

🔗 Book your place via Eventbrite, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPENStudent Spotlight: Thomas Yeung, MA Fine Art"I’m Thomas, an art conservator specializing in lacque...
12/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPEN

Student Spotlight: Thomas Yeung, MA Fine Art

"I’m Thomas, an art conservator specializing in lacquer. My MA show highlights two distinct pieces: a 17th-century Japanese maki-e box from Chiddingstone Castle, crafted with peak Edo-period quality for the ruling class, and an 18th-century Chinese export lacquer chest from Wilton House, tailored for Western traders.

I’m drawn to lacquer for its rich art and history, revealing a cross-cultural blend of taste and dynamic East-West trade networks. Restoring both simultaneously presented unique conservation challenges, deepening my appreciation for the original craftsmen and the generations of restorers dedicated to preserving their beauty."
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Image 1: Studio portrait, 2026
Image 2: 17th-century Japanese maki-e box from Chiddingstone Castle
Images 3-5: 18th-century Chinese export lacquer chest from Wilton House

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: CLOSING TODAYStudent Spotlight: Caroline Brown, MA Fine Art"Caroline Brown is a multidisciplinary artist b...
12/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: CLOSING TODAY

Student Spotlight: Caroline Brown, MA Fine Art

"Caroline Brown is a multidisciplinary artist based in East Anglia. Her practice engages landscape as a space of enquiry, where topography gives way to metaphysical, psychological and philosophical realms. Beyond the Ninth Wave, is about wonder and wildness, found forms and elemental forces. The title is a reference to Celtic mythology, where there is a boundary at sea, marking the threshold of the known world,
beyond which the traveller is at the mercy of the Gods. The work is about a mythical place, but it is inspired by real locations, recent journeys and personal memories of Ireland and Norway.”



Image 1: Studio Portrait, 2026
Image 2: Morrigan II, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm
Image 3: Morrigan III, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm
Image 4: Morrigan I, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 120x90cm

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPENStudent Spotlight: Richard Burger, MA Fine Art"Originally born in Italy but living in England most...
11/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPEN

Student Spotlight: Richard Burger, MA Fine Art

"Originally born in Italy but living in England most of my life, I have always considered myself a painter and I have always been in love with colour and the materiality of paint. More recently, I have also been interested in looking in more depth at the use of other materials such as sand, marble dust and other found materials.

My work is about nostalgia, a classification I resisted for a long time. Interestingly, the etymology for nostalgia was coined in the seventeenth century as the name of an illness, thought to be fatal, the second half of the word being from the Greek ‘algos’ meaning pain."



Image 1: Studio portrait, 2026
Image 2: circular doodle 75*63 cm 2026 sand, marble dust inherited seashells and handmade seaglass with pigment and acrylic binder.

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: CLOSING TOMORROWStudent Spotlight: Margarida Fernandes, MA Fine Art"My work explores memory: the act of re...
11/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: CLOSING TOMORROW

Student Spotlight: Margarida Fernandes, MA Fine Art

"My work explores memory: the act of remembering, the process of forgetting, and the transformations that happen between them. A period of brain fog made me realise that memories are not fixed artefacts preserved behind glass, ready to be retrieved at will. They are more fragile, precious and unstable. Inspired by relics and aged surfaces, I create works that feel intimate and cherished. In doing so, I engage with aspects of the Portuguese concept of ‘saudade’ – often described as the love that remains, or the presence of absence – to emphasise memory as mutable, personal and imperfect.”



Image 1: 'Memento', 17.7 x 22.7 cm, mixed media on primed cardboard
Image 2: 'Middle distance', 17 x 11.3 cm, mixed media on primed cardboard
Image 3: 'Clarity', 21 x 16.5 cm, mixed media on primed cardboard
Image 4: 'Lembrar/Esquecer', 16.9 x 11.1 cm, mixed media on primed cardboard

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPENStudent Spotlight: Rafael Pedrosa Dorado, MA Fine Art"I press the canvas against a surface until i...
10/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPEN

Student Spotlight: Rafael Pedrosa Dorado, MA Fine Art

"I press the canvas against a surface until it gives up its relief: a wall, a fence, a floor. Sometimes I paint first and press afterwards. The order changes and the work still holds: neither layer is the ground for the other. The paint covers and uncovers at the same time, so nothing is ever completely buried. The monotypes work the same way in another material, layer over layer, each one waiting for the last to dry.
I am interested in the threshold, the narrow place where two sides touch. The friction is what lets something pass through. What it opens is a space that was not there before.
The labour stays on the surface.”



Image 1: Studio Portrait, 2026
Image 2: 'We've been here before', Acrylic, rabbit skin glue and embossing on canvas, with hand-made paint applied directly to the wall. 110 x 160 cm. 2026.
Image 3: Installation view, MA Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School. 2026.

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPENStudent Spotlight: William Reinsch, MA Fine Art"For this show I have played around with a new idea...
10/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPEN

Student Spotlight: William Reinsch, MA Fine Art

"For this show I have played around with a new idea that came midway on the course. The insides of the body on show spliced together with figures that are very much alive. These paintings are about that sudden feeling you get when you are faced with the reality of your own mortality."



Image 1-4: William Reinsch

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPENStudent Spotlights: Aidan Myers, MA Fine Art"At the core of this series of paintings, I focused on...
09/09/2026

MA SHOW 2026: NOW OPEN

Student Spotlights: Aidan Myers, MA Fine Art

"At the core of this series of paintings, I focused on human relationship with nature motivated by ecology and histories of invented landscapes.

I lean into both lived moments and memories of walking within nature, often returning to this idea of journeying as a conduit between painting and the remembered moments of my experiences in relation to my obsession with nature.

Paintings are prompted by paper collages blending together first hand photographic images; the references are purposefully interwoven to create new narratives and to experiment with perspectives that obscure and disrupt a traditional western outlook of landscape. Collage is an essential device to play with tensions of artificiality and control through human intervention within landscapes."



Image 1: Studio portrait, 2026
Image 2: 'Intersections With Autumn Light', oil on canvas, 150 x 150cm, 2026
Image 3-4: MA Show Work in progress, 2026

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

09/09/2026

Our MA Show is now open, and our MA Fine Art students are taking over our Instagram to give us a glimpse into the process of preparing for the exhibition.

In this video, Eleanor Cowell () talks us through the work she is showing at this year’s MA Show.

Recorded and edited by and

MA Show 2026
Tuesday 8 September - Saturday 12 September

🔗 See full visiting information and opening hours on our website, link in bio.

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