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KSA Show 2021
The KSA Show 2021 is a celebration of our students' achievements. It will include work from all our Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate students.
The show begins on 15 July 2021 for graduating Foundation, Undergraduate and MArch Architecture students. A second launch date of 23 September 2021 will showcase the work of our Postgraduate students.
The KSA Show 2021 website
Launched on 15 July: the KSA Show 2021 website.
Why choose Kingston School of Art?
Reputation
Our reputation attracts leading brands to work with both us and our students.
The art school experience
Through collaborative working and critical practice, students understand both teamwork and multi-disciplinary making.
Creative and cultural leadership
We prepare our students to be the leaders in the creative industries of the future.
Commitment to development
We offer students opportunities to explore, experiment and to take risks; to find their unique signature.
Our courses
Kingston School of Art is the only faculty to span three campuses at Kingston. At Knights Park, where our architecture, art, design and creative industries courses are taught, the fabulous, newly refurbished, industry-standard workshops and studios are open for creative exploration. They allow opportunities for students and staff to work together and to share ideas, whether they are studying or researching.
At Penrhyn Road, where philosophy, journalism, media, publishing, creative writing, English, dance and drama are taught, the campus is a hive of activity, with social activities, student union events and guest lectures taking place alongside teaching.
Music is taught at Kingston Hill campus, where students practise, produce, record and perform music in our dedicated Coombehurst facilities.
Ideas emerge here
Kingston School of Art has long been recognised as one of the best art and design schools in teaching and research, which is shown in our subject rankings, research, performance, industry and student awards, and the leading brands and institutions whom choose to work with us.
World class facilities
The Design Museum called our studios and workshops "a world class design facility". They provide the perfect space in which to experience practice-based learning, and explore thinking through making. To learn more about our workshps visit our Facilities page.
On our visit to Kingston's workshops we experienced a hugely impressive and inspirational, world class design facility abuzz with creative energy and technical verve; the ideal environment to inspire and equip the next generation of designers with the design skills for the future.
Dr Helen Charman, Director of Learning and National Programmes at the V&A
Location
Kingston School of Art is unique in offering a close community in an attractive town, where friends and colleagues live nearby, sharing student life and creative conversations, while London's world-leading galleries, museums and creative businesses are 30 minutes away.
Studio KT1
Studio KT1 is a new offering from Kingston School of Art and Kingston University giving the opportunity to students to work on commercial briefs with real world experience, getting paid for their work alongside their studies.
News
Gallery and Museum
Stanley Picker Gallery and Dorich House Museum, part of Kingston University, are public venues with programmes offering a variety of opportunities for students and staff.
Events
KSA Show 2021
Thursday 15 July - Thursday 23 September 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 3 - Life Beyond the Comfort Zone
Wednesday 4 August 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 4 - Who Cares?
Wednesday 11 August 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 5 - Growing Fashion Sense
Wednesday 18 August 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 6 - Nnenna's Nigeria
Wednesday 25 August 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 7 - How Formal Does Faith Need to be to Deliver Satisfaction?
Wednesday 1 September 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 8 - Finding a Job or Pathway You Really Really Want
Wednesday 8 September 2021
KU Big Read Book Club Week 9 - How I Felt When I Was About to Start University
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Artists and the Garden: New Perspectives Conference
Monday 27 September - Tuesday 28 September 2021
Alex Demirovic: On the Concept of Ideology
Thursday 7 October 2021
Donatella di Cesare: The Political Vocation of Philosophy
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Product & Furniture Design BA(Hons)
George Wooley, Fruitopia
Interior Design BA(Hons) student work
Mark Terra, Speedo
Architecture project
Japanese Temple reconstruction
Fashion BA(Hons)
India Veiga interned at Celine who sponsored the fabrics for her final collection
Creative Industries BA(Hons)
Dress for our time research project, Helen Story
Critical and Historical Studies
Special topics at the degree show
Communication Design: Graphic Design MA
YCN Award winner
Graduate Diploma in Creative Practice
Qianyu Xu
Graduate Diploma in Creative Practice
Theresa Grossalber
Communication Design: Illustration MA
Jimin Kim
Illustration Animation BA(Hons)
Joey Yu, Sketchbook, 2017
Fashion BA(Hons)
Josh Read's work on catwalk at GFW 2015
Art & Space MA
Chun Yu Chen, 2017
Photography MA
Jiaheng Cao, 2016
