Description: Showing the radical exchange of skills, ideas and creativity that defined this era and revealing how it was instrumental in the development of many artists.
©Peter Blake. All rights reserved, DACS 2017. Photo: ©Tate, London 2017
Between 1957 and 1967, Walthamstow School of Art cultivated some of the most influential creative talent of a generation. This radical era was defined by the coming together of people with remarkable artistic talents, in one place, during a time of extraordinary cultural change.
Pop Artists Sir Peter Blake and Derek Boshier; Royal Academicians Olwyn Bowey, Fred Cuming, Ken Howard and Bill Jacklin; musicians Ian Dury and Terry Day; fashion designers Foale and Tuffin and Celia Birtwell; and filmmakers Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway all taught or studied there.