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Kingston School of Art
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 practice, 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.
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 Research, Design Museum
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
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers
Friday 31 July - Sunday 14 February 2021
KSA Graduate Showcase 2020
Wednesday 5 August - Wednesday 31 March 2021
COURTTIA NEWLAND In Conversation with Dr David Linton
Wednesday 20 January 2021
The KU Big Read: An Interview with Emily Maitlis
Monday 25 January 2021
Howard Caygill: Art and Earth - Reflections on Planetary Aesthetics
Thursday 4 February 2021
Education and Illustration: Models Methods Paradigms, 11th Illustration Research Symposium
Thursday 11 February - Friday 12 February 2021
Stella Sandford: Vegetal Philosophy
Thursday 11 February 2021
Peter Osborne: I, You, We, It - Transindividuality, Subject to Contemporaneity
Thursday 18 February 2021
Étienne Balibar: Human Species as Political Concept
Thursday 25 February 2021
Peter Hallward: Disconnect – The Will and its Pacification
Thursday 4 March 2021
Research Seminar: Kojève and a Non-Eurocentric Historical Materialism
Thursday 18 March 2021
Critique of Strategic Reason
Friday 30 April 2021
Alex Demirovic: On the Concept of Ideology
Thursday 6 May 2021
Research Workshop: Nietzsche's Ethics
Friday 21 May 2021
Donatella di Cesare: The Political Vocation of Philosophy
Wednesday 26 May 2021
Boris Groys: Anti-philosophy and Politics of Recognition
Thursday 10 June 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
