The Margate School

Situated across a former four storey Woolworths Building that had stood empty since 2008, The Margate School by its very nature has become a new hub for innovation and creativity in the heart of Margate and further afield. Since opening in June 2019, TMS has developed three postgraduate courses including the first European Fine Art MA in the UK accredited by French art school ESADHaR, a Visual Com

munication and Sound Arts course, a gallery space, FabLab & Makerspace, over 30 studios, a screening room, two darkrooms, a café area and a community garden. Its theme of Art, Society, Nature, aims to provide socially engaged and sustainability-driven programmes, delivered through knowledge sharing, collaboration and co-creation, peer-to-peer learning, sharing of space and technical facilities and thus enabling creative practitioners to realise their potential in a critically reflective way.

“I can confidently say that the pedagogic approach that has been developed is unique in the UK. There are a number of factors here that constitute significant innovation. Specifically, the incredible space that has been created; that is flexible, inclusive of stakeholders, public artists and students. This has, and will, have an important impact on the local and regional community, providing opportunities that were not previously available in this area. This space allows professional practice and education to co-exist symbiotically in a way that constitutes best practice and creates the ideal context for genuinely advanced practice”. Our external examiner Dr Rebekka Kill.