The Hastings School of Art is an art school

Art school

Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...

 in Hastings

Hastings

Hastings is a town and borough in the county of East Sussex on the south coast of England. The town is located east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London, and has an estimated population of 86,900....

, England, located at the Brassey Institute on the top two floors of the Library building at Claremont. Its former students include Frank Dobson

Frank Dobson (sculptor)

Frank Dobson R.A. was a British artist and sculptor.Dobson attended the Hastings School of Art and was then an apprentice in the studio of Sir William Reynolds-Stephens. From 1910 to 1912 he attended the City and Guilds of London Art School in Kennington, South London...

, Jean Rees

Jean Rees

Jean Rees was a British artist.She dedicated the later part of her life to promoting the visual arts in the West of England. A highly accomplished landscape artist in her own right, exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy , the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Institute of Painters in Water...

, Harold Gilman

Harold Gilman

The British artist Harold John Wilde Gilman was a painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, and a founder-member of the Camden Town Group.-Early life and studies:...

, and Louis Dodd (marine artist).

The school had many Victorian casts for the students to work from including a Vatican reproduction of Michaelangelo's Madonna and child relief, which is still on show at the current Art department.

The art department was moved to the main college campus in Archery Road, St. Leonards-on-sea in 1982.