There were more 150 art schools in this country in the mid-1960s. Most of them are now closed or absorbed into other institutions and the buildings repurposed, remodelled or demolished. What did it mean to have an art school in every town and what can we learn by discovering their fate?

Exhibition notes for The Art Schools Of North West England, 2018

I’m playing catch-up, having been distracted by a big project, but wanted to plug this great exhibition which is on at Liverpool’s prestigious gallery Bluecoat until March next year.

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Tags: Bluecoat Gallery, John Beck, Matthew Cornford, Rob Battersby, The Art School & The Culture Shed

//Students Lorna Ough, Kit Powell, Manon Parry and Kristen Bullivant selling the No Future t-shirts and copies of The Art School & The Culture Shed at Central Saint Martins last week. Photo: Matthew Cornford//

Matthew Cornford, co-designer of the Malcolm McLaren art school tour t-shirt with John Beck, has sent another shot of the shirts being sold at last Friday’s event Be Reasonable Demand The Impossible.

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Tags: Be Reasonable Demand The Impossible, Central Saint Martins, John Beck, Kit Powell, Kristen Bullivant, Lorna Ough, Manon Parry, Matthew Cornford, The Art School & The Culture Shed

//Students modelling the McLaren tour t-shirt. Photo: Matthew Cornford//

Art schools are places of possibilities, which is one of the reasons we chose the title Be Reasonable Demand The Impossible for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Sex Pistols gig at Central Saint Martins in London’s King’s Cross this Friday (November 6).

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Tags: Central Saint Martins, Glen Matlock, Jeremy Till, John Beck, Matthew Cornford, Sex Pistols, The Art School & The Culture Shed, University Of The ARts London