Chelsea School of Art's Manresa Road building photographed by Donald Smith in 1996

After Donald Smith included some of his archive photograph’s of Chelsea School of Art’s Manresa Road building in CHELSEA space #32 Don’t Do Any More Henry Moore he was approached by Lucy Howarth, a researcher from Tate, to be interviewed about his time at the school for an ambitious Tate Research project entitled ‘Art School Educated’: Curriculum Development and Institutional Change in UK Art Schools 1960 - 2000.

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Jo Garrad inspects the contents of the crate

Shelagh Cluett’s work arrived in one of the large crates made for storing her work in the studio. Whilst the crate is fairly light it is also fairly large and it was a close thing getting it through the doors. All of the sculptures were carefully packed within the same box, reference photographs were made of the packing and then Jo Garrad, archivist for the Shelagh Cluett Trust, inspected the condition of the work. It was a tense … Continue Reading