| AdminHistory | Malcolm Hughes (1920-1997) began teaching at the Slade in 1970, became Head of the Graduate Programme in 1973 and Reader in Fine Art in 1976.
Hughes was a constructivist artist. He began studying art after serving as a radio operator in the Royal Navy during WWII, training first at the Regional College of Art in Manchester and later at the Royal College of Art in London. In the mid-1960s he began teaching part time at the Polytechnic of Central London department of architecture, Bath Academy of Art and Chelsea School of Art followed by the Slade School of Art in 1970. In 1973 he took over the running of the graduate programme at the Slade from William Townsend.
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