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Falmouth School of Art (1968-71)
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| Falmouth School of Art was originally located at the Passmore Edwards Free Library in the Moor and was later moved to Arwenack Avenue, the foundation stone was laid on 19th August 1901. | |
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| Passmore Edwards Free Library in the Moor | School of Art in Arwenack Avenue |
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| In the 1950s the school moved to 'Rosehill' in Woodlane where it began to flourish in it's surroundings. | |
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| In 1969 Falmouth High Street was just as busy as it is today and not much has changed since. | |
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| The cafes had a certain quality of emptiness about them, this one was on The Moor (the corner of Quarry Hill and Berkeley Vale) | |
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| The Garden Chinese Restaurant on The Moor used to be a favorite of the students at that time. | |
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| Next to 'Rosehill' is 'Kerris Vean' that housed the Principal Mr.Finn and his staff, Lionel Miskin had his study there too with the Photography Dept. upstairs run by John Wilkinson. | |
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| Lional Miskin (Complementary Studies: Principal Lecturer) | Tim Holliday (Art History: Senior Lecturer) - Clive Edwards right |
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| Michael Finn (Principal) | Peter Redgrove (Complementary Studies: Lecturer) |
| Peter Redgove was filmed talking to Jill Donald for the project 'Cathedral' that I made while at Falmouth, here is a short clip from that time. Jill made fabulous giant ceramic cakes and jellies that were coated in a gold and silver glaze. | |
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| An example of Jill's ceramic cakes and jellies in the 1970 diploma show. | |
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| Paul Kershaw (Technical Assistant).............(photo courtesy of Anny Brinjes) | Derek Toyne (Librarian)...................................(photo courtesy of Anny Brinjes) |
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| Jean Wang | David Winter.......................................(David Winters PDF book 'Dark Angels') |
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| Margaret Praed | Julie Folley |
| Julie Folley was filmed in 2011 (56 mins), she talks about how her art has come full circle over the years since Falmouth School of Art. | |
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| Julie Kendrick | Barbara Hill |
| Below is a film about Barbara that I made in 2007 (34 mins), she talks at length about the philosophy of the teaching at that time and the second film (11 mins) concentrates on her cow paintings. | |
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| Dee (Model) | Carol Cheek (student & model) |
| Carol played a part in my film as a star struck student chased by Jonathan Pike (Jonathan Pike's Website) who eventually rewarded her with a sizable chocolate bar 'Bunch'. Howard Rees (Music Lecturer) composed the music and student Barbara Allen sang like an angel..........check out the clip below (90 secs). | |
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| Nickie Tester (model) | Dennis Lowe filming 'Cathedral' |
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| Dave Westby & Anny Brinjes.........................(photo courtesy of Anny Brinjes) | Ray Hopley (photo courtesy of Jon Pike)............................................Ray Hopley's Website |
| I filmed Ray Hopley in 2010 when he had an exhibition of his latest work 'The Idea of Entropy at West Bay' (21 mins) - click below to watch. | |
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| Anita Rowe | Louis Turpin............(photo courtesy of Barbara Sedassy).........Louis Turpin's Website |
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| Anthea Nicholson and Paul Gribbin...................(photo courtesy of Jon Pike) | Carlos Guarita, that's G-U-A-R-I-T-A............ |
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| Sometimes the lecturers would get tough..........Lionel shows us how it's done..........(photo courtesy of Louis Turpin)...............Lionel Miskin's Website | Sometimes the lecturers would 'lose it'....Peter Redgrove shows us how........ |
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| Mike Wilson: Technical Assistant consoles himself with a bottle of Teachers Whiskey........(photo courtesy of Jon Pike) | Hugh O'Donnell...........................................................Hugh O'Donnell's Website |
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| Head of Photography John Wilkinson took a sequence of photos of Anny Brinjes for her own project, here is a morph of those stills. | Robin Paine...Foundation Year.....................................Robin Paine's Website |
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| Some lecturers were super cool, Leonie Heaton shows how.... | ...and she would feed us when we got too thin......like Tony Batey |
| Jill Donald had an idea to extend the Banquet project into a dinner at the end of the diploma year in the old Rosehill building, it later became a regular theme................................ rollover mouse for names | |
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| The 1971-1972 Prospectus used the original Falmouth Art School location in Arwenack Avenue for the cover......and this is what we had to say for ourselves after 3 years.......(click the pages for enlargement) | |
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| Click image below for larger scale | |
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| A yearly banquet for the students became the norm - this is from 1971 and was too big for the old building so here we are in the new lecture theatre......rollover mouse for names...(if you are here and not named then please contact me for inclusion). | |
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