Academic Appeal Policy and Procedure
Academic Misconduct Policy and Procedure
Assessment and Feedback Policy
Bullying and Harassment Policy
Criminal Convictions Policy and Procedure
Fitness to Study Policy and Procedure
Student Disciplinary Policy and Procedure
Student Support and Guidance (including Tutoring Policy)
Teaching and Learning Strategy
Withdrawal and Interruption of Study Policy
Extenuating Circumstances Policy and Procedure
Recognition of Prior Learning Policy
Regulations for validated awards 2018
Research and Scholarship Strategy
Student Complaints Policy and Procedure
Student Terms and Conditions (academic programmes)
Lynn DennisonBorn in Cumbria, England, Lynn Dennison now lives and works in London. She graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art in 1987 and later completed an M.A. in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Human Traces at Flowers Gallery, New York, Clepsydra at Birmingham University, Waterfall and Border country at the De La Warr Pavilion, and Sweet Thames, run softly while i end my song at the Brunel Entrance Hall, London. She is the winner of the 2015 RBS Sculpture Shock Award.
Born in Cumbria, England, Lynn Dennison now lives and works in London. She graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art in 1987 and later completed an M.A. in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2013. Recent exhibitions include Human Traces at Flowers Gallery, New York, Clepsydra at Birmingham University, Waterfall and Border country at the De La Warr Pavilion, and Sweet Thames, run softly while i end my song at the Brunel Entrance Hall, London. She is the winner of the 2015 RBS Sculpture Shock Award.
The Art Academy has two sites in London.
The Art Academy – Mermaid Court
165A Borough High Street
London SE1 1HR
tel: +44 (0) 207407 6969
Nearest Tube/ Rail: London Bridge or Borough
Both are a 5 minute walk. Please note that London Bridge has two exits, the most direct route is to follow signs to “Borough High Street”.
The Art Academy – Newington
Newington Former Library
155 Walworth Road
London, SE17 1RS
tel: +44 (0)207 701 2880
Nearest Tube/ Rail: Elephant & Castle (5 minute walk)
Office opening hours:
Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm
For general enquires please email:
info@artacademy.org.uk
For enquiries relating to our evening, weekend, day and holiday courses please email:
shortcourses@artacademy.org.uk
Or call +44 (0)207 701 2880
For enquires relating to our academic course programmes please email:
academiccourses@artacademy.org.uk
Or call +44 (0) 207407 6969
Mark Tattersall (Chair)
After graduating in Japanese Studies Mark started his career in the arts as a musician, playing drums and percussion with a number of bands, most notably Cabaret Voltaire. In 1986 he joined CBS Records and spent the next 14 years in the music industry, latterly as Vice President of the SINE division of Sony Music Europe, working with some of the UK and Europe’s most successful recording artists of the 1990s including Oasis, Suede, Gipsy Kings, Primal Scream and Fatboy Slim. In 2000 he moved into the visual arts, running an art gallery in France and an art consultancy in London where he curated the 2007 Gibson Guitartown project, culminating in a major outdoor exhibition next to Tower Bridge and a fundraising auction that raised in excess of £200,000. In 2008 he joined the Art Academy in London where he was Chief Executive until moving to Dorset in 2012 to take up his current post as Artistic Director of Dorchester Arts. Mark has held trustee posts at The Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust, The Art House and Dorset Visual Arts, and is currently acting as a consultant to The Maltings Arts on a scheme to develop a £8.8m theatre in Dorchester, Dorset.
Melanie Gerlis
Melanie Gerlis is the art market columnist for the Financial Times and Editor at Large for The Art Newspaper. She was previously Art Market Editor of The Art Newspaper for nine years and has been reporting on auctions, art fairs and market news globally since 2006. She also worked for ten years at Finsbury, a strategic communications and investor relations firm, advising investment banks, hedge funds and other financial services clients.
Melanie has a BA in English Literature from Clare College, Cambridge and an MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Her book, “Art as an Investment? A Survey of Comparative Assets,” was published by Lund Humphries in 2014.
Paul Harris
Paul Harris is former CFO of Liberty, with fifteen years of senior level operational experience including opening restaurants within department stores Liberty and Selfridges. Having been headhunted from Kurt Geiger, in 2013 Paul successfully completed the second major refinancing of Liberty. He was also the Chairman of a luxury British company that Liberty acquired, is currently NED of The Wine Fusion, and recently launched Curveball a cutting edge dining experience in South London.
Jenna Littler
Since April 2017, Jenna Littler has been Burberry’s Senior Vice President for Wholesale, Franchise and Travel Retail across its EMEIA region. She joined Burberry in 2010 and led the company’s communications activities worldwide before moving into the newly-created role of Senior Vice President, Global Integration in 2014, working alongside Chief Creative and Chief Executive Officer Christopher Bailey on the development and implementation of Burberry’s strategic priorities globally.
Jenna joined Burberry from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in London, before which she held various positions in the UK Civil Service. She started her career in financial communications.
Jenna is passionate about the arts in all their forms. She holds a First Class degree in History of Art from Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, and qualified in Architectural Interior Design at the Inchbald School of Design in London.
Paul Kullich
Paul has been a Trustee of the Art Academy for the last 10 years and been involved in it’s growth and helping to enable it’s unique ethos to reach many students around the world since its foundation.
Paul’s background is in technology and he has delivered large technology change programmes for clients such as the BBC, ITV, BSkyB and BP. He has subsequently founded TUMRA, a digital marketing optimisation service, which offers a software product enabling businesses to improve the performance of their programmatic advertising and marketing campaigns.
Daniel Wright
Daniel is an associate partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner. He has been at the practice for over 17 years and has been involved in a range of projects at all stages from feasibility to post-contract including airports, residential, offices and public buildings. He has also been involved in teaching post-graduate students at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where he has been a practice tutor and crit juror for the 4th year Design Realisation module.
Simon Leggatt (Associate Trustee)
Simon has been the Director of Student Experience and Employability for the Faculty of Education and Health, University of Greenwich since August 2017. He has previously held the roles of Head of Department Secondary and Lifelong Learning Teacher Education, PE & Sport, and Director of Learning and Quality for the Faculty.
Simon spent the first 10 years of his professional life working in the information technology industry for IBM in the UK and overseas. He returned to full-time education as a mature student graduating with a BA Humanities Art History with English from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994, subsequently completing a Further Education (FE) teacher training programme at the University of Greenwich and a Masters in Education. Simon is a Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS), a Fellow of the Institute for Learning and is certified in eLearning, Teaching & Training (CeLTT). He has extensive experience of the FE sector, as a lecturer, Head of Media and Performing Arts and Head of Service: Quality Improvement and Staff Development at Sir George Monoux sixth form college and South Thames College respectively, before joining the University of Greenwich in 2007.
Simon’s teaching interests include teacher education for the Secondary and Lifelong Learning (FE) sectors, inclusivity, equality and diversity, pedagogy, technology-assisted learning, and curriculum development. He is currently undertaking a PhD in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton.
Amir Zahedi (Company Secretary)
Amir is a Chartered accountant in public practice with a wide knowledge of companies and commercial ventures in many industry sectors. He has hands on experience of working in the Fareast and Canada .
In the UK he has worked for an industrial multinational conglomerate and UK quoted companies. Earlier on he trained and worked for many years in the City with Coopers & Lybrand who were one of the predecessors to Price Waterhouse Coopers .
DAMIAN FENNELL
Damian is managing director of Cityscape Digital, one of the foremost 3D digital agencies in the world specialising in CGI and VR creative production for the property industry. Founded in 2001 and based in Shoreditch, at 55 people it is the largest dedicated architectural visualisation studio in the UK. He studied fine art and sculpture in London for 7 years in the 90s, graduating at the same time the Art Academy launched in 2000. Founding principal Tanya Russell invited him to join as the first resident artist and tutor. He moved on to become the first Courses Director, co-writing the sculpture diploma course with Tanya in its formative years while developing his fine art practice and profession. In 2007 on the birth of his third child Damian accepted he had to learn about how to make creative work commercially successful, and left the Academy to join Cityscape Digital as a post-production artist. He became Creative Director in 2012. He built a sculpture studio in his back garden in 2014, where he practises sporadically.
As an Arts Education Charity, we believe art can be a powerful force for community cohesion, social engagement, skill development and urban regeneration. The Art Academy is committed to a programme of outreach and community art activities, mainly focused on our local boroughs of Southwark and Lambeth. We are very happy to be working with Southwark Council to renovate the old Newington Library building on Walworth Road, near Elephant and Castle. The Council has offered us the building for two years, to run Art Academy courses and manage the community activity space and exhibition space. We want to bring life back to the building, make it more accessible to the local community and provide a great venue for local people to enjoy diverse activities. The space also allows us to provide Resident Artist studio spaces, something we are very proud of after a series of studio closures in the local area.Newington Gallery
We have partnered with the following:
BEAM
Southwark Research Centre
British Red Fair
Olive Tree Primary
World Heart Beat Music Academy
The Nelson Mandela Trust
Beormund Primary School
Hoffman Foundation
Elephant Family
For more information on how we could help your organisation please email us.
Welcome to the Art Academy! We are a small, independent art school founded in 2000, offering a unique approach to fine art education in the very heart of Central London. We offer a range of art education programmes for all ages and for all skill levels. Whether you are looking to become a working artist or you just want to develop your skills in your spare time, we can offer the finest quality art tuition to suit your needs and to support your artistic development. If you choose to study on a long course with us, we’ll provide you with some of the highest contact hours with expert tutors on offer in the UK. We’ll help you learn technical skills, explore your creative expression and develop your critical insight so that you can find your own voice and visual language. We’re a warm energetic community of artists, offering a supportive environment where we’ll nurture you while constantly challenging and stretching you to become the best artist you can be. Rob Pepper
Principal
OUR MISSION
To enable every student to realise his or her vision by developing their individual skills and creative insight – this is how we deliver our mission.
OUR PRINCIPLES
The Art Academy believes in:
- creating an environment where our students can experiment, research and learn from the best academic, artistic and philosophical practitioners so we can develop visionary artists who will be the creative thinkers of the future.
- developing creative skills , both traditional and contemporary, to support a student’s freedom of expression.
- encouraging students to understand and consider the conception and skills that have gone into the creation of all art work in any medium, both traditional and contemporary.
- training every student to develop a critical and spontaneous creative process which allows them to be true to their creative vision.
- helping students to understand the art market and the world of the professional artist to enable them to make informed choices within their creative practice.
- providing a supportive, vibrant and eclectic artistic community where creativity can be nurtured.
© Lucy du Sautoy