Liverpool College Of Art
Amongst its former students are John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, Maurice Cockrill, Ray Walker, Stuart Sutcliffe, Margaret Chapman, Ruth Duckworth, Phillida Nicholson and Bill Harry. In 1975, Clive Langer, Steve Allen, Tim Whittaker, Sam Davis, Steve Lindsey, John Wood and Roy Holt (a mix of Fine Art students and tutors at the college) founded seminal 'art rock' band Deaf School and went on to sign a record deal with Warner Bros Records US after being 'discovered' by former Beatles publicist and head of Warner Bros UK at the time Derek Taylor. Deaf School are acknowledged as catalysts of the post-Beatles musical revival in the city.
Staff at the Liverpool College of Art in the late 1950s (at the time of John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe) included Walter Norman,Julia Carter Preston, Arthur Ballard, Charles Burton, Nicholas Horsfield, George Mayer-Marton, E. S. S. English, Alfred K. Wiffen, Austin Davies, Philip Hartas, and the college's then-principal W. L. Stevenson.
In March 2012, the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) announced that it had purchased the former Liverpool College of Art building for £3.7million to expand its teaching space.
Notable alumni
- George Adamson
- Margaret Chapman
- Helen Clapcott
- Maurice Cockrill
- Ruth Duckworth
- Bill Harry
- Roy Holt
- John Francis Kavanagh
- Edward Kelly
- Ronald William "Josh" Kirby
- Clive Langer
- John Lennon
- John Meirion Morris
- Steve Lindsey
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Lilian Rathmell
- Isabel Rawsthorne
- Sidney Sime
- Stuart Sutcliffe
- Norman Thelwell
- Ray Walker (artist)
- Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood
- John Wood
- Sir James Stirling
- Alison Appleton (ceramics designer)