Welcome to Reigate School of Art 

Reigate School of Art is part of Orbital South Colleges following the merger with East Surrey College and John Ruskin College.  

We offer a wide range of creative courses for both school leavers (16-18) and adults (19+). As a specialist creative arts school, students will be inspired to find like-minded people to share in their creative process. Students will develop their own style through a combination of industry focused courses, excellent facilities and inspirational expert tutors. 

Our Subjects 

Discover the wide range of subjects including Art, Crafts, Design, Creative Media, Film & TV, Photography, Games Design, Animation & 3D Modelling, Sound & Music, Languages, Fashion & Textiles, Jewellery, Cookery, Floristry and more! 

The College has a wonderful feel… the way the photography course is taught has a more grown-up atmosphere allowing Caitlin to find her own way of working and developing her skills, whilst appreciating the need to work to a brief and a deadline.

Parent – Photography Level 3 

More than just a creative environment 

Reigate School of Art has a range of excellent studio facilities which provide a friendly and creatively stimulating environment to work in, ensuring students have the latest resources needed to develop their creative and professional potential including: 

• Art and design studios 
• Games design studio 
• Photography studios and darkroom
• Sound recording, production and editing suites
• Film studio with green screens and editing suite
• Printmaking studio
• Wet and dry 3D studios
• Theatrical make-up and prosthetics wet and dry studios 

We have a large number of Macs and students can use industry standard software including Adobe Creative Cloud apps: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects and Premier Pro.  

Students are entitled to their own Adobe License while they study with us. Additionally, we offer DaVinci, Pro Tools, UnitE, Blender, Logic Pro X and Reaper. 

Opportunities to exhibit your work 

We showcase a wide variety of student work throughout the year and all students have the opportunity to exhibit their final major project in the End of Year Exhibition. 

Turning Creativity into Careers 

Reigate School of Art is extremely well located to access work opportunities across London and the South East, where 45%* of the 3.3 million creative industry jobs are located. 

There has never been a better time to start a career in the creative industries. The UK’s creative industries are now recognised as world leading and are growing faster than the UK economy as a whole with over 1.9 million people working directly in the creative industries: 

• £92 billion contributed to the UK economy every year* 
• Employment in the UK creative industries is growing at four times the rate of the UK workforce as a whole*  
• About 1 in 8 UK businesses are in the creative sector* 

*Source: Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) statistics July 2018 

Progression 

Reigate School of Art students have various routes for progression including: 

• Further Education – internal progression at Reigate School of Art 
• Higher Education – Reigate School of Art offer a range university level courses, subjects include: 
  • Computing / Cyber Security
  • Make-Up, Special Effects & Hair for Media & Performance 
• Higher Education – many students progress to prestigious art schools and universities including: 
  • UAL: Central Saint Martin’s, Chelsea, Camberwell, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion UCA: Epsom, Farnham, Canterbury, Loughborough, Warwick, UCL Slade, Kingston, Westminster
• Other: 
  • Glasgow School of Art, Arts University Bournemouth, Oxford, Amsterdam, Nottingham Trent, Falmouth, Leeds, Goldsmiths, Oxford Brookes, Birmingham, Exeter, Edinburgh, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton 
• Employment in the creative industries – as an alternative to further study, students have also chosen to progress directly into employment or self-employment 
• Apprenticeships 
    

“I wanted to pass on my thanks and that of my colleagues who all felt that your students were an absolute credit to the College. Our academic teams were highly impressed with their knowledge and engagement and would be delighted to receive applications from any one of them.” 

Anna Hawes - Head of School and College Partnerships, Falmouth University