Byam Shaw School of Art

History

The Byam Shaw was opened in May 1910 by John Liston Byam Shaw and Rex Vicat Cole with the name Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art. The teaching staff initially consisted of W. Dacres Adams, D. Murray Smith and C. Austin Cooper; additional lectures were given by Evelyn Eunice Pyke-Nott (Mrs. Byam Shaw), Kenneth Martin and Percival Silley. Other early members of the staff were Ernest Jackson, who was principal of the school from 1926 to 1940,, and the late Pre-Raphaelite painter Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale. Brian Thomas was principal from 1946 to 1954, and Maurice de Sausmarez from 1962 to 1969.

The original premises were at 70 Campden Street, London W8; the school moved in 1990 to larger premises in Archway. In 2003, it was absorbed into Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design.

Alumni

Among those who studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art are artists such as Winifred Nicholson, Bernard Dunstan, Yinka Shonibare, Mona Hatoum, the stained glass artist Evie Hone and the wood-engraver Blair Hughes-Stanton; theatre designers including Maria Björnson, Laurence Irving and Stefanos Lazaridis; the inventor James Dyson; the actor John Standing and the musician Paul Simonon.

References

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