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.

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Theo Chaudoir“Inspired by London’s streets, architecture, and everyday surroundings, ...
08/06/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Theo Chaudoir

“Inspired by London’s streets, architecture, and everyday surroundings, I’m interested in capturing the energy, chaos, and experience of living in the city. Working with materials linked to public space, like charcoal and emulsion paint, I create pieces that reflect the textures, movement, and rhythm of urban environments and the people who shape them."

Image credit 1: 'BREAKING THE STATE', oil, oil pastel, charcoal and emulsion on canvas, 500 x 510cm, 2026
Image credit 2: 'FACADE', oil, oil pastel, charcoal and emulsion on canvas, 122 x 153cm, 2026.
Image credit 3: 'LOST SOULS', oil, oil pastel, charcoal and emulsion on canvas, 122 x 153cm, 2026
Image credit 4: studio, 2026



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Elitza Bonina“Elitza Bonina is a London-based artist working primarily in oil paintin...
04/06/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Elitza Bonina

“Elitza Bonina is a London-based artist working primarily in oil painting. Rhizomatic thinking underpins my practice, shaping both its experimental methodology and conceptual foundation. I approach painting as a non-linear process that resists hierarchy and embraces multiplicity and tangential connections. The rhizome enables the work to branch in unpredictable directions, generating lines of flight through which new interpretations emerge. I seek to destabilise fixed representation through overlapping imagery, mirroring, transparency, and varied painterly languages, creating tension and inviting ambiguity."

Image credit 1: studio, 2026
Image credit 2: 'Padding' (details), oil on canvas, 160 x 200cm, 2026
Image credit 3: studio with 'Padding' and 'Conditioning', 2026
Image credit 4: 'Padding' (details), oil on canvas, 160 x 200cm, 2026
Image credit 5: 'Conditioning', oil on canvas, 170 x 200cm, 2026



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Tomomi Tomlin“I explore how space, objects, and materials shape our perceptions, emot...
03/06/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Tomomi Tomlin

“I explore how space, objects, and materials shape our perceptions, emotions, and sense of place. I am drawn to the unnoticed and overlooked—forgotten stories, hidden spaces, fleeting traces, and memories embedded in places and objects. Through my work, I examine the interplay of presence and absence, seeking to reveal what we often miss.
In my work, “Oddments,” I explore the shifting boundaries between what is considered desirable and what is considered undesirable. Collecting and assembling unwanted, discarded objects around the school, I orchestrate new encounters and narratives. These objects, once rejected, are transformed—claiming new meaning and agency, telling their own stories."

Image credit 1-3: 'Oddments',
found objects, wood, plaster, Japanese sumi ink and calligraphy rice paper, 2026
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Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Anastasiia Kyrpenko“Anastasiia Kyrpenko is a Ukrainian artist based in London working...
02/06/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Anastasiia Kyrpenko

“Anastasiia Kyrpenko is a Ukrainian artist based in London working primarily in painting. Her practice explores memory and displacement through intimate depictions of domestic moments. Painting functions as a way to translate reality and preserve fragments of experience that resist forgetting - moments once special in their ordinariness but now altered by war. Working mainly in acrylic on small panels and found surfaces, she builds images through layered fragments, treating memory as unstable, interrupted, and incomplete. Her works function as portable archives: traces of people and places."

Image credit 1-2: studio and details of painting on studio wall, 2026.
Image credit 3: 'Interrupted', acrylics on linen, 50x70 cm / 2026
Image credit 4: 'Happy Later', acrylics on canvas board 40x39 cm / 2026
Image credit 5: studio, 2026.
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Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

Congratulations to our MA Fine Art Alumni on the upcoming group exhibition Marginalia at Koppel Collective.Marginalia br...
01/06/2026

Congratulations to our MA Fine Art Alumni on the upcoming group exhibition Marginalia at Koppel Collective.

Marginalia brings together a group of artists whose practices intersect around the overlooked, fragmentary and peripheral. Traditionally referring to notes or marks made in the margins of a text, the term is expanded here into the visual landscape, encompassing sketches, studies and side thoughts that often remain unseen, yet hold a quiet significance within an artist’s practice.

The exhibition includes work by MA Fine Art Alumni Daisy Douglas Miller (), Anya Kashina (.kashina), Henry Glover (), Anna Pakosz (), Rebecca Gilpin (), Megan Rea (), Zack Townsend (), Ellie Walker (), Harriet Gillet () and Emilio Bartolome Martin (.b.martin), alongside current MA Fine Art student Milo Anani ().

Curated by Emilio Martin.

📆 Opens Wednesday 3 June, 6-9
📆 Open until 6 June
📍 Koppel Collective, 167 Regents Park Road, NW1 8BB

01/06/2026

We are still accepting applications for the following programmes with places available:

MA Fine Art (Full-time and Part-time)
MA Conservation: Collection Care & Management
MA Conservation
MA Carving
BA (Hons) Fine Art
BA (Hons) Woodcarving & Gilding
Graduate Diploma: Mosaics
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

👉 Visit our website for full information on how to apply for our courses. Apply now to secure your place.

We offer a range of bursaries and scholarships to support tuition fees across all subject areas.

We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to City & Guilds of London Art School.

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Gabriella Gormley, Graduate Diploma Arts: Fine Art“My wider practice explores the rel...
29/05/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Gabriella Gormley,
Graduate Diploma Arts: Fine Art

“My wider practice explores the relationship between spirituality, psychology, materiality, and systems of human organisation. Working across sculpture, ceramics, installation, and image-making, I am interested in the ways bodies, objects, and belief systems hold memory and meaning. My work often draws from religious imagery, mythology, medical structures, and personal experience to investigate states of dependency, transformation, and collective experience."

Image credit 1-5: '(this also is but) A striving after wind', mild steel, glass, 24k gold leaf, CaCo3, mudlarked bones, ceramics, glass, communion wafers, paper pulp and copper pipe, 2026.



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Jade Lyn Shantay, BA (Hons) Fine Art“Jade Lyn Shantay explores light reflected throug...
28/05/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Jade Lyn Shantay, BA (Hons) Fine Art

“Jade Lyn Shantay explores light reflected through glassware. Painting in oil on different surfaces; canvas, linen and wood-board. Shantay captures energy emanating off the base of vessels. Her work highlights the details often overlooked—the light and shadow dancing from the movement of the vessel. She uses her photography and videography as inspiration for the oil paintings, capturing the fleeting quality of light."

Image credit 1: '20:08 / The Vessel 1.0, Quiet Whispers as the candle burns out', 76.8 x 101.6cm , Oil paint on Linen, 2026
Image credit 2: '15:15 Ephemeral spiderwebs threading light and shadow', 24.7 x 20.3 cm, Oil paint on Linen, 2026
Image credit 3: '14:37 The fresh taste of rainfall, mist covered windows, lighting bugs dancing like rippling puddles', 40 x 149 cm, Oil paint on Canvas, 2026
Image credit 4: studio wall shot of paintings: '20:47 Whale sounds' , '21:20 Counted breath', '19:51 White Noise'.



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

DEGREE SHOW 2026Student Spotlight: Jack Savage, BA (Hons) Fine Art“When I first realised I was trans, I thought I must b...
27/05/2026

DEGREE SHOW 2026

Student Spotlight: Jack Savage, BA (Hons) Fine Art

“When I first realised I was trans, I thought I must become a new person, creating an imagined wall in my head between who I used to be and who I was to become. I’ve realised this was a mistake, and my practice now involves trying to break that wall down, and reconnect with my past. In this painting, I'm picturing a world where I walk into a clearing and find my past selves - all dolls I made, staged around a tissue paper fire - gathered, united, ready to share their stories with each other and with me."

Image credit 1-4: Jack Savage, 'In All Their Stories I Found Myself', Oil on wood, 2025-26, 10 x 8 inches



Degree Show 2026
Saturday 20 June - Friday 26 June

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

Highlighting the work of current Artist Glass and Casting Fellow Ellie Pearch ().Our incredible Fellows play a vital rol...
26/05/2026

Highlighting the work of current Artist Glass and Casting Fellow Ellie Pearch ().

Our incredible Fellows play a vital role in enriching student learning, offering guidance and expertise, while also developing their own artistic practice within the Art School’s Workshops.

Ellie works mainly in sculpture and installation. Her practice uses mass-produced and over-looked materials to excavate and dramatise moments of intimacy and wonder within city surfaces. Her work is currently on show with 23-26 April.

Image 1: Ellie Pearch 'Monument to lost conversations', 2025
Image 3: Ellie Pearch 'Doors', 2026
Image 4: Ellie Pearch 'Monument to lost conversations', 2025
Image 5: Ellie Pearch, 'Days', 2026

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