OUR NEW CAMPUS
Welcome to our new Bankside home.
Located within the Triptych Bankside development—right next to the iconic Tate Modern—our new Bankside campus places us at the heart of London’s most vibrant cultural quarter.
The Art Academy Bankside campus will host our evening classes, short courses, pre-degree, degree programmes, exhibitions, events and more. Including eight teaching studios, specialist workshop spaces and two gallery and exhibition spaces, our campus is fully accessible to artists.
This move marks an exciting new chapter, offering our students cutting-edge facilities that reflect our distinctive, hands-on approach to art education, while deepening our engagement with the local Southwark community.
The building is also available for hire for corporate and other events.
Learn more about the fundraising campaign that made this possible, how you can help support phase two and the Academy’s strategic goals here.
“Our unique vision is for an art school where everyone is welcome. The move will enable us to create many more free places for local children on our Young Artists courses, to scale our support for art teachers nationwide through free professional development courses and to extend our open-access tuition to local charities working with disabled artists. On top of all this, we will be able to provide subsidised exhibition spaces for artists in Zone one”
– Rob Pepper, Principal
Photographs: Peter Molloy
“What Rob and the team have done with the Art Academy is to take the art school model, which has in many ways become tired and conventional, and create something with enormous potential for lifelong learning that is open and inclusive.”
– Dr. Frances Morris, former Director of the Tate Modern