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in 1882, and known then as the Canterbury Sidney Cooper School of Art. After Cooper's death 1902 his art school continued until 1935 when it was taken over by the City of Canterbury Education Committee. The Education Committee took on all the assets and liabilities of the art school and until 1972 it
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and Medway College of Design, Rochester, who ran the institute from 1987 to 1996. He was instrumental in gathering the three art colleges together, but reframed from amalgamating them into one single campus because he recognised their individual cultural connections within their communities.
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The merger of institutions to create KIAD was not without controversy and was effectively imposed on Kent County Council by the central government's National Advisory Board for education. This was in spite of concerted opposition from the County Council, the colleges concerned, the local
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Maidstone College of Art was founded in 1867, and Rochester College of Art (renamed Medway College of Design in 1970) in 1886. The origin of Canterbury College of Art lies in the private art school founded by the Victorian animal painter
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One of the ironies of the history of Canterbury College of Art is that the original home of the art school, in Cooper's house, again became a place for teaching art in 2004 when another educational institution in the city,
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on 1 August 2005 to form the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester. In 2008, this gained full university status and became the
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at Leeds College of Art. Under Watt the radical Leeds teaching methods developed by Thubron were imported into Canterbury through the employment of other artists from Leeds, such as
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tutors and students who started working there. This arose from Thomas Watt being made Head of Fine Art at Canterbury in 1968, Watt having previously been a teaching colleague of
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remained housed in the building that had been Cooper's home and studio in the centre of Canterbury. It then moved to a new site on the New Dover Road.
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was also in an informal relationship to these three, by virtue of being technically in the county of Kent, but under the administrative control of
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rather than Kent County Council. It was the three colleges under the direct control of Kent County Council that went on to form KIAD in 1987.
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The founding director of the Kent Institute was Peter I. Williams, an artist in his own right and former principal of the
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Canterbury College of Art and School of Architecture was by this time operating under the aegis of the newly reorganised
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Education Committee Minutes, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Canterbury, Kent, ref. CCA-CC-A/SC/139/2
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A notable feature of the Canterbury College of Art at this time was the number of former-
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Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art
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Keshmirshekan, Hamid; Irving, Mark; Downey, Anthony (2009).
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Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
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Students work at the Sydney Cooper School of Art in 1941
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Index

Maidstone College of Art
/ˈk.æd/
art school
campuses
Kent
United Kingdom
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
University for the Creative Arts
further education
higher education
postgraduate
Canterbury
Maidstone
Rochester

Thomas Sidney Cooper
Kent County Council
Ravensbourne College of Art
Chislehurst
Bromley Borough Council
Lincoln School of Art
Leeds College of Art
Harry Thubron
Stass Paraskos
Dennis Creffield
Member of Parliament
Parliament
Canterbury Christ Church University
Samira Abbassy
Wale Adeyemi

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