Working with Teachers
We’re passionate about providing learning opportunities and support for teachers in art education, particularly in the current climate where the onus remains on STEM subjects. We think it’s important both to help you further your professional development, and to provide an open forum for you to engage and build relationships with peers from all over the UK.
Our popular CPD Days offer you the chance to take part in artist-led practical workshops across painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media. All our CPD Days are designed to teach you skills that you can take back into the classroom and apply immediately using the tools and materials you already have.
Our CPD Days are FREE, and include a complimentary lunch, goodie bag and tour of our Mermaid Court campus (optional).
Book A CPD Day
[avia_codeblock_placeholder uid="0"]
The Art Academy Newington
In September 2017 Southwark Council granted the Art Academy use of the former Newington Library, Walworth Road. The site allows us to expand our short course offering, give more studio space to our academic students and manage a new public gallery space, available for exhibitions and cumminuty activities. Southwark Council has supported the Academy to take on this additional premises for two years.
Resident artist spaces available at Newington
We also have Resident Artist studios to rent at our Newington site. Studios vary in size from 60 square foot to 800 square foot and are available at competitive rates. The studios are accessible from 7am to 11pm and contracts are rolling monthly with one month notice required. For more information on the Resident Artist spaces we have available please email our Operations Manager, astrid@artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44 (0) 20 7701 2880.
Address
The Former Newington Library
155 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1RS
United Kingdom
Newington Gallery Use and Hire
The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.
Our first free public exhibition programme opened in September 2017 with ‘Andy Holden & Peter Holden: Natural Selection’, commissioned and produced by Artangel, one of the UK’s pioneering facilitators of daring and innovative public art. We are now inviting other artists and local community groups to exhibit with us.
For more information on how to rent or programme events please email Zuzana Knightova, Public Programmes Manager, zuzana@ artacademy.org.uk or call us on +44(0)20 7701 2880.
Newington Gallery exhibitions
The Newington building is used to provide extra studios for students and offers a public programme of short courses. We offer the double-height ground floor library space as a venue for other charitable organisations and art groups to host diverse activities including public programmes, workshops, talks and exhibitions.
Current Exhibition
Time Flies like the wind, Fruit flies like bananas: Group Show with painters from the Turps Studio Programme: Private View Wednesday 18th September 5 – 8 pm: Open Thursday 19 September – Sunday 22nd September 2019; 10am – 5pm
Upcoming exhibitions
Writing Photographs: Group show: Exhibition Tour – Saturday, 28th September 2019 12:00 – 1:00 pm; Performance, reading, interaction -Saturday 28th September at 3pm & 5pm & 8pm; Public viewing Saturday 28th September 12:00 – 10:00 pm; Portfolio reviews Sunday 29th September 2019 11am – 1pm
Walworth History Festival 2019 :12th October – 20th October 2019: Open weekdays 1pm – 6pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am – 6pm
Royal College of Art: Student Group Show: :29th October – 4th November
Julian Wild and Owen Bullet: :4th February – 17th February 2019
Queer Arts Week:: Group Show: Open 18th February – 24th February, 12pm – 6pm
Previous Exhibitions
You Know More Than I Know: Harry Pye, Corin Johnson, Aleks Wojcik, Steve Gullick, James Johnston: Private View – Wednesday 11th September 2019, 6pm to 9 pm: Open Tuesday 10th September – Monday 16th September 2019, weekdays 10:30am – 6:30pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm.
James Gardiner: Paintings: Open 28th August – 2nd September 2019: Private View Tuesday 27th August 5.30pm – 9pm
Are you curious?: Private View Thursday 20th June 2019 6.30pm – 9pm: Group Art Exhibition, Open 21st June 2019 to 23rd June 2019, 10am – 5pm
A Painted Touch of Life: Suzon Lagarde, Inma Garcia-Carrasco, Open 28th May – 2nd June 2019, 12 – 5pm
Tenebris: Marilena Klemmer, Gloria Cavicchioli and Andy Grinham: Private View Thursday 13th June 2019 5pm – 8.30pm: Open Wednesday 12th June 11am-8pm, Friday 14th June 11am-8pm, Saturday and Sunday, 15th and 16th June 12-6pm
Dissolute Geometrix: Heidi Sundvik, Anna Sevcova, Sonia Cabrera, Jonathan Faragher and Seema Manchanda: Private View Thursday 25th April, 5pm – 8pm: Open 25th – 28th April 11am – 4pm
The Bootle or the Book?: Kate Crumpler and Jacob Smith: Private View Tuesday 30th April, 5 – 8pm: Open Wednesday 1st May 10am – 5pm and Thursday 2nd May 10am -1pm
Lessons in Things- An exhibition of maps, charts and diagrams with an anthrozoologic slant: Anna Walsh: Private View Thursday 11th April 6pm – 8.30pm: Open 11th – 14th April, 1pm – 5 pm
Loading: An exhibition by students from LCC Arianna Poverini, Aroa Nunez, Beth Goldstone, Domia Edwards, Ella Finney, Fatema Kach, Frederik Marks, Gemma Lewis, James Greenhalgh, Joseph Beeching, Karolina Gliniewicz, Lily Boyle, Maite De Orbe, Ou Lin, Phoebe Somerfield, Rachel Gordon, Ruth Phng, Tami Aftab, Tom Coleman, Wojciech Fec, Youhah Kim, Yulia Cavala, Zahraa Karim: Private View 19th February 6pm – 9pm: Open 16th February – 21st February, 2pm – 6pm
Queer Arts Week: Group Show: Private View and Cabaret 22nd February 5pm – 8.30pm: Open 23rd – 28th February, 12pm – 6pm
RAW: An Exhibition of Work by Amelie Peace, Rose Shuckburgh, Coco Morris and Alice Irwin: Private View 7th March 6m – 9pm: Open 6th – 10th March 2019
MAP 2019 (Collaboration): Group show by students from LCC: 12th March – 18th March 2019
Gail Dickerson: Core Sample Exhibition
An Art and Geology project focusing on the geology of London and the area of Elephant and Castle. It explores the Rockingham Street Anomaly, the Elephant Park building site, the fluvial deposits from the River Thames and the clay and chalk of the London Basin. Layers in the work are placed using collected sediments made into earth pigments, and temporary exposures on a building site are captured on film. London’s strata is glimpsed through research and collaboration with the London Geodiversity Partnership.
BEAM Exhibition
An exhibition by BEAM Art, a group run by Southwark Disablement Association (SDA). BEAM Art offers ‘disabled artists the chance to create art in a group setting with the opportunity for discussion, conversation and learning from each other in a fully accessible environment.’
We have been working in partnership with SDA to support the BEAM Art programme for over three years. Academy students Emily Russell and Jo Holt have been working in conjunction with the artists to present an exhibition that reflects the diversity of their practices, which include painting, print and poetry.
Shadowbox Exhibition
An exhibition of six contemporary artists exploring truth and fiction within the context of our shifting cultural landscape.
Mind the Art Exhibition
A group exhibition raising awareness of mental health through art.
Contact us For all queries about short courses, please email shortcourses@artacademy.org.uk or call 020 7701 2880. For all queries about academic courses, please complete our Enquiry Form here or call 020 7407 6969. For all other queries, please contact info@artacademy.org.uk.
We have 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)
PEEPs (Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans) for visitors
We have a legal duty to make sure that all people who use or visit our buildings can reach a ‘Place of Total Safety’ in the event of a fire safety emergency. Legislation describes a Total Place of Safety as being “a place, away from the premises, in which people are at no immediate danger from the effects of a fire”. A Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan, or PEEP, is a bespoke ‘escape plan’ for individuals who may have difficulties evacuating a building to a Total Place of Safety without support or assistance from others.
Who needs a PEEP?
PEEPs may be required for any member of our community (staff, students, visitors) that may have one or more of the following:
- Mobility conditions
- Sight conditions
- Hearing conditions
- Neurodiverse or mental health conditions
- Other circumstances that may affect a person’s ability to evacuate (this could include people with underlying health conditions, or who are pregnant or who have a short-term injury, such as a broken leg).
The key question that determines whether a PEEP is required is “Can you evacuate a building unaided in a reasonably prompt manner during an emergency situation?” If the answer is no, then a PEEP is likely to be required.
Visitors
For short-term visitors, such as attendees at Academy events and open days it is not practical to put in place individual PEEPs. We have developed a standard set of PEEPs for visitors with a range of needs. These can be found here. Please inform the relevant member of staff (your primary contact) of your needs and which of the standard options is applicable to you, ahead of your visit. Should you be unsure about how to contact, please contact the reception in the first instance using the contact details above, who will be happy to help.
Should you feel that none of the standard options are relevant to your individual needs, please contact the operations manager by email at astrid@artacademy.org.uk, who will be able to assess your individual needs with you ahead of your visit, using the PEEP form for visitors which is available here.
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.
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 .
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. “All the tutors who have come to us including currently have made a huge impact in terms of empowering the members, who are a diverse group, with varying needs and limitations. For some they have had the opportunity to experiment and develop new skills while other more confident and established artists have found new ways to express themselves through printmaking and recently, ceramics.” BEAM.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.
