The CARRINGTON
The Art School is located in an ideal marriage of historic building and sensitive refurbishment to provide uniquely elegant facilities. In the heart of the school, adjacent to Sherborne Abbey this is an enviable bespoke studio and workshop complex. At the centre of this complex is the magnificent Grand Studio designed for the School by the prominent Edwardian architect Sir Reginald Blomfield.
Blomfield did extensive work at Sherborne in the 20s including the north side of the courts and the gym, now the dining room. His other important works, elsewhere, include the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres ,Flanders , Lambeth Bridge , at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, Goldsmiths College and Lower Regent Street in London.
The Carrington is built in the warm local 'Hamstone', it was extensively refurbished for the millennium and provides an elegant marriage of the old and the new; an ideal environment for art and visual culture studies.
The area also houses the prominent Oliver HOLTgallery, presenting a changing programme of national, international art exhibitions as well as local work from emerging, learning, and School artists.
The Art School at the Carrington has a large intaglio print workshop, an atelier for sculpture and construction, a darkroom for traditional wet/light based photographic processes, two project spaces and dedicated computers for digital video and imaging. The Art library is the core of the department
Two exterior courtyards are often used for larger work and performance. There is also a well-equipped drama studio in the complex.
