What is on the walls, in the kiln and on the timetable.

Every studio note, prize and visiting practitioner, in one place. Term dates and open mornings live on Admissions.

THE LATEST · 28 APRIL 2026

Degree show opens this Friday

Every studio clears out for it. Three floors of work made this year, hung by the students who made it, with the makers in the room to talk about any of it.

Read the note

Earlier this term.

Prizes, visiting practitioners and what went up on the walls. Newest first.

Two shortlisted for the Kiln Prize

Studio Notes

The Kiln Prize goes to work in fired clay by anyone under nineteen, judged blind. Two of the six on this year’s shortlist came out of our ceramics studio.

Sound artist Ada Reyes joins us

Studio Notes

Ada Reyes joins the digital studio for six weeks, working with sixth form and Portfolio Year on field recording and composition for installation.

The spring open crit, in one room

Studio Notes

Every studio brought its term to the main hall on Friday and stood beside it. Eleven rooms of work in one, from first-year drawings to Portfolio Year pieces, and the whole school walking between them.

Sound System turns thirty-five

Studio Notes

The student radio station has broadcast from the sound studio every term since 1991, run entirely by students the whole time. This week it marks thirty-five years with a forty-eight hour broadcast.

On the noticeboard.

The four dates every note on this page ends up pointing at. All of them are open to visitors.

DEGREE SHOW

1 May

Opens Friday at six in the main hall. Nine days, free, late opening on the Wednesday.

OPEN MORNINGS

Tuesdays

Every second Tuesday through the autumn term. No portfolio, no appointment.

THE OPEN CRIT

July

Every studio shows the term’s work to the whole school before it breaks up.

OPEN STUDIOS

December

One evening a year the building stays lit for the town, not just for parents.

Read about it here, or come and see it in the building.

Most of what is written up here happened on an ordinary weekday. Come and watch the next one being made.

Book a visit

What is on the walls, in the kiln and on the timetable.

Degree show opens this Friday

Earlier this term.

Two shortlisted for the Kiln Prize

Sound artist Ada Reyes joins us

The spring open crit, in one room

Sound System turns thirty-five

On the noticeboard.

1 May

Tuesdays

July

December

Read about it here, or come and see it in the building.

An independent arts academy on the edge of the city.

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