London Art Studies offers mini art online art history classes for members
London Art Studies is the world’s first online arts education subscription website, offering mini video lectures and courses on artworks, artists and movements. Ahead of the site’s launch of a new section dedicated to children and teenagers, we speak to the founder Kate Gordon about creating effective short-form content and the future of the art world.
Kate Gordon. Photo by Ki Price
1. How did you progress from your early role in production to launching an educational art platform"
I took a very roundabout journey into television, starting at Sotheby?s, moving to Carlton Television where I worked on a variety of shows, and then ended up making art programmes for CNN. When the CNN show was cancelled, I was offered a job back at Sotheby?s as Head of Public Programmes for their educational arm. I found I loved combining brilliant teaching with a more popular approach; it was the early days of what now might be called ?edu-tainment? and I set up London Art Studies in 2012. A couple of years after that, a friend mentioned that people around the world would want to see our classes and that was the lightbulb moment. It took 2 years to film the beginning of our content library, and we finally went online with our own educational platform in 2018. I didn?t realise until after we launched that I was carrying on a family tradition: my grandmother was a theatre producer, my father a TV producer, ...