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Type | Art school |
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Established | 1885 |
Location | , |
Head of School | Libby Curtis [1] |
Affiliations | The Robert Gordon University |
Website | Gray's School of Art |
Gray's School of Art is an art school located in Aberdeen, Scotland. Part of Robert Gordon University, it is one of the oldest established fine art institutions in Scotland and one of Scotland's five art schools today,[ when? ] and ranked among the Top 20 Schools of Art and Design in the United Kingdom. [2] The School is housed in a building at the university's Garthdee campus in Aberdeen.
Gray's School of Art was founded in 1885 as Gray's School of Science and Art and named after John Gray (1811–1891), a local businessman and an early investor in the school. In 1859 he was appointed director of the Aberdeen Mechanics Institution, one of the city institutions which would develop into The Robert Gordon University.
In the early 1880s, John Gray offered to finance a new school of science and art in Aberdeen, on the condition that the governors named it Gray's School of Science and Art. The school opened in 1885 with 96 students enrolled for the day classes and 322 for the evening classes. It was housed in a building at Schoolhill in the city centre next to the Aberdeen Art Gallery. By the 1960s the school had outgrown the building, and moved to a new building at Garthdee, next to the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture.
In the early 1950s, Tom Scott Sutherland (1899–1963), an Aberdeen architect who had attended the School of Architecture at Robert Gordon's Technical College gifted Garthdee House and its surrounding estate to the School of Architecture, along with a substantial endowment. The relocated school opened at Garthdee in 1956 as the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture.
The current building was designed by Michael Shewan and was influenced by the Illinois Institute of Technology campus (particularly the S. R. Crown Hall) designed by the American modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. [3] It is one of the 60 DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments, a list of notable Scottish post-war buildings selected as significant examples of architectural style, building materials and location. These facilities include studios for painting and drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewellery, 3D design, as well as computer labs and life model changing rooms. [3]
Gray's offers training in a wide range of fine art, applied art and design disciplines. All courses employ a general first year where students study elements of each subject area as a "taster", before choosing an area of specialism from second year to graduation.
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