Ed Gray has a diploma in Fine Art Foundation and a BA Hons in Fine Art. He began volunteering in the art room in a south London youth club and ran workshops for Magic Me and worked as a Notting Hill Carnival designer for M2K Mas Band before completing his PGCE and QTS in 1998. Ed taught Art and Design for five years in a secondary school in Peckham and has over 27 years of experience teaching and lecturing about art and creating and curating exhibitions for primary and secondary schools, colleges, adult education, universities, galleries, museums and public institutions.
Clients have included FIFA , Sir John Soane’s Museum, Dr Martens, Dulwich Picture gallery, Tate, Royal Drawing School, Masterworks Foundation, Guga S’Thebe Arts Centre Cape Town, Masterworks Museum of Bermuda, City Hall, Thames Festival, Thames Luxury Charters, The Gherkin 30 St Mary Axe, Float Art Fair London, Southampton Solent University, University of Connecticut London, Queen Mary’s University London, HMP Belmarsh YOI, Walworth History Festival, 2Inspire Youth Centre, National Museum of Football Manchester.
Tours for public and school groups at the House of Annetta 25 Princelet Street Spitalfields E1 6QH for Scenes of Innocence & Experience in November 2023
National Museum of Football Manchester staff INSET workshops on ‘Ways Of Looking at Art’and ‘The Art Of Sport’ 2019
Southwark Secondary Schools Artist Talks 2015
Langa Township Cape Town Art Workshop 2009
Langa Township Cape Town Art Workshop 2009
Gallery talk 2014
Lecturing about Hogarth for Sir John Soanes Museum London 2014
Walworth History Society Talk 2018