Goldsmiths' College
Goldsmiths, University of London, is a constituent college of the University of London. Based in the grounds of the old Royal Naval School at New Cross, south London, the original building dates from 1841 and was designed by John Shaw. The College was founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute. It was acquired by the University of London in 1904 and subsequently renamed Goldsmiths' College. The word 'College' was dropped from its branding in 2006. However 'Goldsmiths' College', with the apostrophe after the final ‘s’ remains the legal name. A noteworthy numbers of graduate students from the department over the last several decades are widely acknowledged as having achieved international acclaim. No fewer than 6 have won the coveted Turner Prize and many more have been nominated. Its superb list of teachers an alumni include Angus Fairhurst, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley, Mark Wallinger, film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood, and fashion designers Mary Quant and Vivienne Westwood, amongst very many.
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