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Ealing Art College (orEaling Technical College & School of Art) was afurther education institution on St Mary's Road,Ealing,London,England. The site today is the Ealing campus ofUniversity of West London.
In the early 1960s the School of Art was composed of Fashion, Graphics, Industrial Design, Photography and Fine Art Departments, and the college was attended by notable musiciansFreddie Mercury,[1]Ronnie Wood, andPete Townshend, and Oscar-winning illustratorAlan Lee.[2]
The College offered External London University courses in the 1960s. The BA degree and BSc Economics with specialisation in various components like Geography, Economics and Law, attracted many British and foreign students, and also lecturers from various London University Colleges.
There was also a School of Liberal Arts that offered secretarial and undergraduate language courses in French, Spanish, German and Russian and included a semester at L'ecole d'interpretes, University of Geneva. It was considered revolutionary at the time.
The two-year Groundcourse was held in the annexe to the Art School. The "Groundcourse" was a radical and influential experiment in art education, led byRoy Ascott with a team of artists includingR B Kitaj andAnthony Benjamin. For a few years in the 1970s, the college had a separate campus at Woodlands Avenue, Acton, where the Schools of Librarianship and Management were based.
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