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Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (often abbreviated as Central Saint (St.
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) Martins, Saint (St.
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) Martins or CSM) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London , formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six art, design, fashion and Media studies colleges in London, England, United Kingdom....
 and is widely regarded to be one of the world's leading art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 and design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 institutions.

ral Saint Martins College of Art and Design was formed in 1989 from the merger of Central School of Art and Design (1896) and Saint Martins School of Art (1854).






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Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (often abbreviated as Central Saint (St.
St.

St. is an abbreviation for*Street*Saint The usage is understood by context. For example, the expression "St. Peter St." would be assumed to mean "Saint Peter Street"....
) Martins, Saint (St.
St.

St. is an abbreviation for*Street*Saint The usage is understood by context. For example, the expression "St. Peter St." would be assumed to mean "Saint Peter Street"....
) Martins or CSM) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London , formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six art, design, fashion and Media studies colleges in London, England, United Kingdom....
 and is widely regarded to be one of the world's leading art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 and design
Design

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 institutions.

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Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design was formed in 1989 from the merger of Central School of Art and Design (1896) and Saint Martins School of Art (1854). Central Saint Martins became a constituent College of the London Institute in 1986, a federal body formed by the Inner London Education Authority
Inner London Education Authority

The Inner London Education Authority was the education authority for the 12 inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990.The Inner London Education Authority was established when the Greater London Council replaced the London County Council as the principal local authority for London....
 to bring together London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
's art, design, fashion and media schools into a collegiate structure for administrative purposes. The London Institute was granted University status and was renamed University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London , formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six art, design, fashion and Media studies colleges in London, England, United Kingdom....
 in 2004. The Drama Centre London, founded in 1963 and the Byam Shaw School of Art, founded in 1910, joined Central Saint Martins in 1999 and 2003 as integral schools, maintaining their individual titles and teaching approaches. Central Saint Martins is currently collaborating with the London Studio Centre to develop new courses in dance and related disciplines.

Central Saint Martins remains one of London's most revered art and design institutions, producing some of the most important artists, designers and performers over the last 150 years and has developed an internationally recognized research profile as rated in the Research Assessment Exercise
Research Assessment Exercise

The Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK higher education funding councils to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by British higher education institutions....
 in 2001. The Queen's Anniversary Prize
Queen's Anniversary Prize

The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education is a biennially awarded series of prizes awarded to Universities and Colleges in the further and higher education sectors within the United Kingdom....
 was awarded to Central Saint Martins for its significant contributions to the UK fashion industry and for nurturing the creativity of students in 1998. Central Saint Martins also attained Skillset Media Academy
Skillset

Skillset is the industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative media industries maintain their world class position....
 status in 2007, recognizing the achievements in the area of media
Mass media

Mass media is a term used to denote a section of the media specifically envisioned and designed to reach a mainstream such as the population of a nation state....
 and interactive design.

Central Saint Martins establishes links between artistic practice leading to research projects and employs graduates onto national and international design consultancy schemes through its Innovation Centre and Design Laboratory. Central Saint Martins has become one of the largest providers of art and design education in the world and has registered museum
Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
 status for its historical and contemporary collections.

History


Central School of Art and Design

The Central School of Art and Design, formerly the Central School of Arts and Crafts, was established by the London County Council
London County Council

London County Council was the principal local government body for the County of London, throughout its 1889-1965 existence, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected....
 in 1896 to provide specialist art teaching for workers in the craft industries. The school was intended to be a centre at which art scholars and students could be brought under the influence of established artists and employers. The aim was a direct outcome of the Arts and Crafts movement
Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts Movement was a United Kingdom, Canada, and United States aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century....
 sponsored by William Morris
William Morris

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
 and John Ruskin
John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a British art critic and social thought, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian era and Edwardian period eras....
. The Royal Female School of Art, founded in 1842, was transferred to the London County Council and was incorporated into the Central School of Art and Design in 1908. The architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
, educationalist and conservationist William Lethaby
William Lethaby

William Richard Lethaby was an England architect and Architectural history whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts Movement and early Modern architecture movements in architecture, and in the fields of Architectural conservation and art education....
 was a key figure in the foundation of the school and was appointed joint principal with George Frampton
George Frampton

Sir George James Frampton Royal Academician was a notable British sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement. ...
 from 1896 to 1911. Under Lethaby the Central School of Art and Design was innovatory in both its educational objectives and teaching methods. The majority of teachers were successful practitioners of their crafts, and provided the school with a variety of practical skills and valuable contacts with the creative industries.

Saint Martins School of Art
The Saint Martins School of Art was established in 1854 and was founded by the parochial authorities of St Martin-in-the-Fields
St Martin-in-the-Fields

St Martin-in-the-Fields is an Church of England church at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Its patron is Saint Martin of Tours....
. The vicar, Reverend M McKenzie, and others were concerned that industrial education should be developed and allied to the general education already provided by Church schools. Art education was intended to form part of this industrial instruction for apprentices. The school became independent of the parish
Parish

A parish is a local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican, United Methodist, and Presbyterianism churches....
 in 1859. The school was recognised by the Technical Education Board of London County Council in 1894 and became part of the development of technical education taking place in London and Britain. The school became firmly established as one of the major fine art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
 and commercial
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 art schools, producing many well-known artists of the era.

The Gilbert-Garret Competition for Sketching Clubs was started in 1870 at Saint Martins School of Art, during Mr. John Parker's term as headmaster, and was named after its first president, Sir John Gilbert
John Gilbert (painter)

Sir John Gilbert was a British artist....
.

Drama Centre London
The Drama Centre London was founded in 1963 by a breakaway group of teachers and students from the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students....
, led by John Blatchley, Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes. The school is a member of the Conference of Drama Schools
Conference of Drama Schools

The Conference of Drama Schools comprises 22 accredited drama schools in United Kingdom. Founded in 1969, the 22 member schools offer courses in Acting, Musical Theatre, theatre director and Technical Theatre training....
 and its undergraduate Acting
Acting

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a Fictional character and, usually, Speech communication or singing the written text or Play ....
 course is accredited by the National Council for Drama Training
National Council for Drama Training

The National Council for Drama Training is a partnership of employers in the theatre, broadcast and media industry, employee representatives and training providers....
. The Drama Centre London merged with Central Saint Martins in 1999.

Byam Shaw School of Art
The Byam Shaw School of Art, founded by the artists John Byam Shaw
Byam Shaw

John Byam Liston Shaw , commonly known as Byam Shaw, was an Indian-born United Kingdom painter, illustrator, designer and teacher....
 and Vicat Cole in 1910 as a school of drawing
Drawing

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, marker pens, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint....
 and painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 (originally located in Kensington
Kensington

Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington....
, until its move to Archway in the 1990s), merged with Central Saint Martins in 2003.

Schools and location

Central Saint Martins comprises five schools:

  • School of Art
  • School of Fashion & Textiles
  • School of Graphic & Industrial Design
  • Drama Centre London
  • Byam Shaw School of Art


The schools are based in London with sites situated at Holborn
Holborn

Holborn is an area of Central London, England. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running from St Giles's High Street as High Holborn to Gray's Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct, crossing the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London....
, Soho
Soho

Soho is an area in the centre of the West End of London of London, England, in the City of Westminster. It is an entertainment district which for much of the later part of the 20th century had a reputation for its sex shops as well as its night life and film industry....
, Clerkenwell
Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell is an area of central London in the London Borough of Islington. Clerkenwell was once known as London's "Little Italy" due to its extensive Italian population from the 1850s to the 1960s....
 and Archway.

Kings Cross
Central Saint Martins has revealed plans to move to a purpose built complex at Kings Cross
Kings Cross, London

Kings Cross is an area of London partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the London Borough of Islington. It is an inner-city district located 1.5 miles north of Charing Cross....
 in 2011. The move will create one college site thereby unifying the five schools at one location.

Showcase


Gallery
Central Saint Martins houses the Lethaby Gallery and the Window Gallery that collectively exhibit historical and contemporary collections. Established in 1896, the galleries include books, prints and original works of art and design. The College has an active policy of collecting contemporary work by its staff, students and alumni. The College also does research, produces publications and curates exhibitions based on the collections it holds.

Cochrane Theatre
The Cochrane Theatre
Cochrane Theatre

The Cochrane Theatre is a receiving and producing theatre that aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch. The theatre is situated in Holborn, London....
 is a receiving and producing theatre that aims to present all aspects of the performing arts within a proscenium arch. The theatre is situated next to the College's Southampton Row
Southampton Row

Southampton Row is major thoroughfare running north-south in Bloomsbury, London, London Borough of Camden, central London, England....
 campus in Holborn
Holborn

Holborn is an area of Central London, England. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running from St Giles's High Street as High Holborn to Gray's Inn Road to Holborn Viaduct, crossing the borders of the City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden and the City of London....
. The theatre largely serves as a performing platform for students and alumni of the Drama Centre London.

Affiliations

Central Saint Martins is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London
University of the Arts London

The University of the Arts London , formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six art, design, fashion and Media studies colleges in London, England, United Kingdom....
, with Camberwell College of Arts
Camberwell College of Arts

Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It is located in Camberwell, South London with two sites situated at Peckham Road and Wilson Road....
, Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design

Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers further education and higher education courses in Fine Art, Graphic Design, Interior Design and Textile Design up to Doctor of Philosophy level....
, London College of Communication
London College of Communication

The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The college is located in Elephant and Castle in South London and was originally based in Clerkenwell....
, London College of Fashion
London College of Fashion

The London College of Fashion is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in fashion and related industries....
 and Wimbledon College of Art
Wimbledon College of Art

Wimbledon College of Art is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London and is one of London's major art institutions. It is located in Wimbledon, London and Merton Park, South West London....
.

Exchange
Central Saint Martins has exchange links with the Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design , is a design school founded in 1896 . Parsons has been affiliated since 1970 with The New School, formerly known as New School University....
 in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, USA and the Bunka Fashion College
Bunka Fashion College

is a prestigious Japanese college specializing in the teaching of Fashion Design and related disciplines in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The college is known for its strict curriculum and heavy workload....
 in Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
, Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
.

Notable Alumni


Former students and staff include:

  • Norman Ackroyd
    Norman Ackroyd

    Norman Ackroyd, Order of the British Empire, R.A. is an England artist known primarily for his aquatints. He is based in London.Ackroyd attended Leeds College of Art from 1957-61 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1961-64, where he studied under Julian Trevelyan....
     (Printmaker)
  • Sade Adu
    Sade Adu

    Helen Folasade Adu, Order of the British Empire, , better known as Sade , is a British people singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer....
     (Singer)
  • L. Bruce Archer
    L. Bruce Archer

    __FORCETOC__Leonard Bruce Archer , British mechanical engineer and later Professor of Design Research at the Royal College of Art who championed research in design, and helped to establish design as an academic discipline....
     (Engineer and Research Professor)
  • Michael "Atters" Attree (satirist, comedy writer and performer)
  • Frank Auerbach
    Frank Auerbach

    Frank Helmut Auerbach is a Germany-born United Kingdom Painting. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town....
     (Architectural Critic and Writer)
  • Reyner Banham
    Reyner Banham

    Peter Reyner Banham was a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise "Theory and Design in the First Machine Age", and his 1971 book "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies" in which he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models and explored the distinct archi...
     (Architectural Critic and Writer)
  • Faris Badwan (Lead Singer of The Horrors
    The Horrors

    The Horrors are a British garage rock band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached #37 on the UK Charts, on 5 March 2007....
    )
  • Jeff Banks
    Jeff Banks

    Jeff Banks is a renowned Welsh Fashion design of both men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings....
     (Designer and Presenter of the BBC's The Clothes Show
    The Clothes Show

    The Clothes Show is a United Kingdom television show about fashion that can currently be seen on UKTV Style. It was formerly broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000....
    )
  • Jonathan Barnbrook
    Jonathan Barnbrook

    Jonathan Barnbrook is a Great Britain graphic designer and typographer. Born in Luton in 1966, Barnbrook trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art ....
     (Graphic Design, Former Art Director of Adbusters
    AdBusters

    Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, Anti-consumerism organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada....
     magazine)
  • Lionel Bart
    Lionel Bart

    Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music & lyrics for Oliver!...
     (Composer)
  • Cressida Bell
    Cressida Bell

    Cressida Bell is an English artist and designer, specializing in textiles and interiors.She is the daughter of critic, author and artist Quentin Bell and Anne Olivier Bell....
     (Textile Designer)
  • John Berger
    John Berger

    John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, Painting and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text....
     (Art Critic, Novelist, Painter and Author)
  • Paul Bettany
    Paul Bettany

    Paul Bettany is an English actor, who has starred as a wide range of characters in several diverse film genres. He has been nominated for BAFTA- and Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as numerous critics and film circle awards....
     (Actor)
  • Peter Blake
    Peter Blake (artist)

    'Sir Peter Thomas Blake', Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry, is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt....
     (Artist)
  • Sandra Blow
    Sandra Blow

    Sandra Blow was an English painter....
     (Painter)
  • Stephen Billington
    Stephen Billington

    Stephen Billington is a British actor, best known for playing Greg Kelly in Coronation Street ....
     (Actor)
  • Pierce Brosnan
    Pierce Brosnan

    Pierce Brendan Brosnan, Order of the British Empire is an Republic of Ireland actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Ireland and United States citizenship....
     (Actor)
  • Maria Bjornson (Theatre Designer)
  • Hamish Bowles
    Hamish Bowles

    As the European Editor at Large for VOGUE, Hamish Bowles is recognized as one of the most respected authorities on the worlds of fashion and interior design....
     (Fashion Journalist and Editor for American Vogue
    Vogue (magazine)

    Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in eighteen countries by Cond? Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design....
    )
  • Jason Brooks (Illustrator, known for his work with Hed Kandi
    Hed Kandi

    Hed Kandi is a UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specialising in house music. Hed Kandi's catalogue includes both artist albums and various genres of club compilations....
    )
  • Derek Boshier
    Derek Boshier

    United Kingdom Pop artist Derek Boshier works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, photography, film and sculpture.Boshier along with David Hockney, Allen Jones and Peter Phillips was one of the 1959 intake at the Royal College of Art....
     (Painter)
  • John Burningham
    John Burningham

    John Burningham is an award winning children's author and illustrator....
     (Children's Author and Illustrator)
  • A. S. Byatt
    A. S. Byatt

    Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, Order of the British Empire is an England novelist and poet. She is daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor and is married to Peter Duffy....
     (Author)
  • Simon Callow
    Simon Callow

    Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom theatre, film and television actor and director....
     (Actor)
  • Mel Calman
    Mel Calman

    Melville Calman was a British cartoonist best known for his "little man" cartoons published in British newspapers including the Daily Express , The Sunday Telegraph , The Observer , The Sunday Times and The Times ....
     (Cartoonist)
  • Michael Cardew
    Michael Cardew

    Michael Cardew, OBE, was an England studio pottery who worked in West Africa for twenty years.Cardew was the fourth child of Arthur Cardew, a civil servant, and Alexandra Kitchin, the eldest daughter of George William Kitchin, the first Chancellor of Durham University....
     (Ceramics)
  • Anthony Caro
    Anthony Caro

    Sir Anthony Caro, Order of Merit, Order of the British Empire, is an England, abstract art sculpture whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects....
     (Sculptor)
  • Hussein Chalayan
    Hussein Chalayan

    Hussein Chalayan Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom/Turkish Cypriots fashion designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993....
     (Fashion Designer and Creative Director for Puma.)
  • Bryan Charnley
    Bryan Charnley

    Bryan Charnley was a United Kingdom artist most famous for a series of Surrealism self portraits he painted examining his schizophrenia and the effect of the different Psychoactive drug he used to control the condition....
     (Artist)
  • David E. Carter
    David E. Carter

    David E. Carter is an entrepreneur and writer who is a considered an expert on graphic design, logo design, and corporate branding and the "pioneer" of trademark and logo books....
     (Graphic Designer)
  • Billy Childish
    Billy Childish

    Billy Childish or William Charlie Hamper is an England artist, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. He is known for his explicit and prolific work - he has detailed his love life and childhood sexual abuse, notably in his early poetry and the novels My Fault , Notebooks of a Naked Youth , Sex Crimes of the Futcher...
     (Painter, Writer, Musician)
  • Michael Chow (Restaurateur, Interior Designer, and Part Time Actor)
  • Jarvis Cocker
    Jarvis Cocker

    Jarvis Branson Cocker is an England musician, best known for fronting the band Pulp . Through his work with the band, Cocker became one of the key players in the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s....
    , (Lead Vocalist of Pulp
    Pulp (band)

    Pulp were an England alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978 by Jarvis Cocker . They were originally known as "Arabacus Pulp," but this was shortened a year later....
    )
  • Bernald Cohen
    Bernard Cohen (painter)

    See also Bernard Cohen for other people by this name.Bernard Cohen is a United Kingdom artist. Ten of his works are in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery....
     (Painter)
  • Cecil Collins
    Cecil Collins

    Cecil Collins was an England artist originally associated with the Surrealist movement.He was born in Plymouth on 23 March, 1908 and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Plymouth Docks....
     (Artist)
  • Matthew Collings
    Matthew Collings

    Matthew Collings is a British art critic and broadcaster, who presents the Channel 4 TV programme on the Turner Prize. He describes himself as "an apologist for contemporary art" ....
     (British Art Critic and Broadcaster)
  • Terence Conran
    Terence Conran

    Sir Terence Orby Conran, Chartered_Society_of_Designers, is an England designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer....
     (Designer, Retailer and Restaurateur)
  • John Copnall
    John Copnall

    John Bainbridge Copnall was an English artist best known for his Abstract expressionism painting of richly coloured stylised realism, often on a grand scale....
     (Abstract expressionist & teacher)
  • Jack Coutu
    Jack Coutu

    Jack Coutu Associate of the Royal Engravers Alumnus of the Royal College of Art is an England printmaker, sculptor, etcher, engraver, carver, watercolourist and teacher....
     (Printmaker and Sculptor)
  • Alan Davie
    Alan Davie

    James Alan Davie is a Scotland painter and musician.He was born in Grangemouth, near Edinburgh, and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s....
     (Painter and Musician)
  • Richard Deacon
    Richard Deacon

    Richard Deacon Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom abstract sculpture, and a winner of the Turner Prize....
     (Sculptor and 1987 Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     Winner.)
  • Len Deighton
    Len Deighton

    Leonard Cyril Deighton is a United Kingdom historian, cookery expert and novelist, perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a The Ipcress File starring Michael Caine....
     (Author)
  • Frances de la Tour
    Frances de la Tour

    Frances de la Tour is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the United Kingdom sitcom Rising Damp, and as Olympe Maxime in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ....
     (Actress)
  • Sokari Douglas Camp
    Sokari Douglas Camp

    Sokari Douglas Camp is an artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the receipient of awarded the Henry Moore Bursary award. She is the daughter of Kalabaris, an ethnic group living in the Niger Delta....
     (Artist)
  • Braco Dimitrijevic
    Braco Dimitrijevic

    Braco Dimitrijevic is a Bosnia and Herzegovina artist, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia on June 18 1948 in former Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Zagreb Academy in 1971, continuing at St Martin's School of Art in London....
     (Artist)
  • Peter Doig
    Peter Doig

    Peter Doig is a Scotland painter....
     (Painter)
  • Arthur Dooley
    Arthur Dooley

    Arthur Dooley was a United Kingdom artist and Sculpture. He was born in the city of Liverpool, Dooley commenced employment as a welder at Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, he also worked at the Dunlop factory in Speke, before his ambition took him to work as a cleaner at St....
     (Sculptor)
  • Mich Dulce
    Mich Dulce

    Mich Dulce is a Filipino people fashion designer and vocalist of bands Death By Tampon and Us-2 Evil-0.Dulce was one of the 14 housemates of ABS-CBN's Pinoy Big Brother: Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • James Dyson
    James Dyson

    Sir James Dyson , is an England industrial designer.He is best known as the inventor of the DC01 bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation....
     (Industrial Design. CEO of Dyson)
  • Ronald Ferns
    Ronald Ferns

    Ronald Ferns was an England illustrator, designer, cartoonist and surrealism painter in oil and watercolour.He attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, supporting himself by taking commissions to decorate the homes of various London celebrities including Hermione Gingold....
     (Illustrator)
  • Colin Firth
    Colin Firth

    Colin Andrew Firth is an United Kingdom film, television and stage actor. Firth first gained wide public attention, especially in Britain, for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the highly acclaimed Pride and Prejudice of Pride and Prejudice....
     (Actor and Writer)
  • Rodney Fitch
    Rodney Fitch

    Rodney Fitch CBE , founded the design company Fitch in 1972, rejoined as chairman and CEO in 2004. Appointed Commander of the British Empire in 1990 for his 'influence on the British Design Industry'...
     (Designer)
  • Tara Fitzgerald
    Tara Fitzgerald

    Tara FitzGerald is an England actor....
     (Actor)
  • Barry Flanagan
    Barry Flanagan

    Barry Flanagan is a contemporary artist best known for his large bronze statues of hares....
     (Artist)
  • Caryn Franklin
    Caryn Franklin

    Caryn Franklin is a British fashion expert and television presenter. From fashion editor and co-editor of i-D magazine in the early '80s, She is most famous for being a presenter on The Clothes Show on BBC One from 1986 until 2000....
     (Presenter and former Editor of i-D magazine)
  • Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud

    Lucian Michael Freud, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour is a British Painting of Germany origin....
     (Painter)
  • Elisabeth Frink
    Elisabeth Frink

    File:Paternoster Square - Statue of Man driving Sheep - London - 240404.jpgDame Elisabeth Jean Frink, Order of the British Empire, Companion of Honour, Royal Academician was an English sculpture and Printmaking...
     (Sculptor and Printmaker)
  • Anthony Froshaug
    Anthony Froshaug

    Anthony Froshaug was an England typography and teacher, born in London to a Norwegian father and English mother. He attended Charterhouse School and the Central School of Arts & Crafts....
     (Typographer)
  • Rie Funakoshi (Singer)
  • John Galliano
    John Galliano

    Sir Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guill?n, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry , professionally known as John Galliano, is a Gibraltarian people-British people fashion designer....
     (Fashion Designer and Creative Director for Dior.)
  • Gilbert and George
    Gilbert and George

    Gilbert and George are two modern artists who work together as a duo. Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore are to be seen and heard in much of their art, and have become famous for their odd, highly formal appearance and manner....
     (Artists and 1986 Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     Winner.)
  • A. A. Gill
    A. A. Gill

    Adrian Anthony Gill is a United Kingdom newspaper columnist and writer, using the byline A. A. Gill. He is currently employed by The Sunday Times as their restaurant reviewer and television critic....
     (British Newspaper Columnist and Writer)
  • Eric Gill
    Eric Gill

    Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a England sculpture, typography, stonecutter and printmaking, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement....
     (Sculptor, Typographer, Stonecutter and Printmaker)
  • Anthony Gormley (Artist)
  • Andrew Grassie
    Andrew Grassie

    Andrew Grassie is a Scotland artist. He paints highly detailed and self-referential tempera on paper copies of photographs.He was educated at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art....
     (Artist)


  • Andrew Groves
    Andrew Groves

    Andrew Groves is an England fashion designer based in London who was notorious during the 1990's for his runway collections at London Fashion Week....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Shirin Guild
    Shirin Guild

    Shirin Guild is a contemporary Iranian British fashion designer. Her label was established in London, in 1991. Shirin Guild was born in 1946 and grew up in Iran....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • John Gunther
    John Gunther

    John Gunther was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books....
     (Author and Journalist)
  • Francesca von Habsburg
    Francesca von Habsburg

    Francesca von Habsburg is an art collector and the wife of Karl Habsburg-Lothringen heir to the headship of the House of Habsburg....
     (Art Collector)
  • General Sir John Winthrop Hackett Junior
    John Winthrop Hackett Junior

    General Sir John Winthrop Hackett Order of the Bath, Commander of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order Medal bar, Military Cross was an Australian-born British Army, author and university administrator....
    , (Army General, author, and Principal of King's College London
    King's College London

    King's College London is a United Kingdom higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by George IV of the United Kingdom and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of University of Oxford and Un...
    )
  • David Hall
    David Hall (video artist)

    David Hall is a significant United Kingdom video artist. He began as a sculpture exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965....
     (Video Artist)
  • Kathleen Hale
    Kathleen Hale

    Kathleen Hale was a United Kingdom artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando ....
     (Artist, Illustrator and Children's Author)
  • Richard Hamilton
    Richard Hamilton (artist)

    Richard Hamilton is an England Painting and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the early works of Pop Art....
     (Artist and Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     nominee)
  • Katharine Hamnett
    Katharine Hamnett

    Katharine E. Hamnett is an England fashion designer best known for her political t-shirts and her ethics business philosophy. She graduated from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design....
    , (Fashion Designer.)
  • PJ Harvey
    PJ Harvey

    Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, England, Harvey formed an eponymous band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan....
     (Musician)
  • Tim Hatley
    Tim Hatley

    Tim Hatley is an American Tony Award winning set designer for stage and film.External links...
     (Theatre Designer)
  • Mona Hatoum
    Mona Hatoum

    Mona Hatoum is a performance artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London....
     (Performance and Installation Artist)
  • Patrick Heron
    Patrick Heron

    Patrick Heron , was an England Painting, writer and designer, based in St Ives, Cornwall, Cornwall....
     (Painter, Writer and Designer)
  • Richard Heslop
    Richard Heslop

    Richard Heslop is a United Kingdom director of music videos and films. He has produced videos for artists including Queen , The Cure, and New Order, as well as programs on Channel 4 and the BBC....
     (Film Director)
  • John Hilliard
    John Hilliard (artist)

    John Hilliard, is an United Kingdom artist and academic living and working in London; He studied at Lancaster College of Art and St Martins School of Art, London....
     (Artist)
  • Rebecca Horn
    Rebecca Horn

    Rebecca Horn is a Germany installation artist most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out....
     (Installation Artist)
  • Craigie Horsfield
    Craigie Horsfield

    Craigie Horsfield is an England artist and photographer, who was a Turner Prize nominee.In 1996 he was nominated for the Turner Prize. He described his entry of black and white photographs of the environments and people around him as:He often prints the photographs many years after they were first taken, bringing into contrast memory and t...
     (Artist, Photographer and Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     nominee)
  • Barbara Hulanicki
    Barbara Hulanicki

    Barbara Hulanicki is a Warsaw-born fashion designer, known as the founder of the iconic clothes store Biba.Born in Warsaw, to Poland parents, after studying at Brighton Art College, Hulanicki won a London Evening Standard competition for beachwear in 1955....
     (Designer.)
  • John Hurt
    John Hurt

    'John Vincent Hurt', Order of the British Empire is an England actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons , and has since retained a career as a leading actor and supporting actor of many popular motion pictures, including: Watership Down , Midnight Exp...
     (Actor)
  • Neil Innes
    Neil Innes

    Neil James Innes is an England writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles....
     (Singer and Parodist)
  • Geraldine James
    Geraldine James

    Geraldine James Order of the British Empire is an award-winning England actor. Theatre director Peter Hall has said that Geraldine James ranks among the great English classical actresses....
     (Actress)
  • Clare Johnson
    Clare Johnson

    Clare Johnson is an United States writer and artist from Seattle, Washington. Her work deals with the parallel themes of memory and loss. ...
     (Artist, writer)
  • Edward Johnston
    Edward Johnston

    Edward Johnston, CBE was a Great Britain craftsman who is regarded, with Rudolf Koch, as the a father of modern calligraphy, in the form of the broad edged pen as a writing tool, a particular form of calligraphy....
     (Craftsman)
  • Dylan Jones
    Dylan Jones

    Dylan Jones is a United Kingdom journalist who is editor of GQ.Jones attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London where he studied graphic design....
     (Editor of British GQ)
  • Isaac Julien
    Isaac Julien

    Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker....
     (Filmmaker and Installation Artist)
  • Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone
    Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone

    Janet Grahame Johnstone and Anne Grahame Johnstone were twin sisters and British children's book illustrators best known for their delicate, detailed prolific artwork and for illustrating Dodie Smith's classic book "The Hundred and One Dalmatians."...
     (Illustrators)


  • Christopher Kane
    Christopher Kane

    Christopher Kane is a Glasgow-born London-based fashion designer, who graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2006....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Annie Kevans
    Annie Kevans

    Annie Kevans is an England artist. She was named number 19 in Harper's Bazaar magazine's Forty Under 40 chart of hot new British talent, September 2007 and was named number 32 in New Woman magazine?s Brit Hit List and was described as the "new Tracey Emin"....
     (Artist)
  • Tom Karen
    Tom Karen

    Tom Karen is a United Kingdom industrial designer of Czechs origin. He was Managing Director and Chief Designer of Ogle Design from 1962 until 1999....
     (Industrial Designer)
  • Leon Kossoff
    Leon Kossoff

    Leon Kossoff is a British expressionist painter, who mainly paints portraits, life drawings, and cityscapes of LondonLeon Kossoff was born in 1926 in Islington London, and spent most of his early life living there with his Russian Jewish parents....
     (Painter)
  • Sophia Kokosalaki
    Sophia Kokosalaki

    Sophia Kokosalaki is a well-known Greece fashion designer with her own label based in London. A graduate of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, she was chosen to design the opening and closing ceremonial outfits for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games, which were staged in her home town of Athens....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Dimitri Launder
    Dimitri Launder

    Dimitri Launder is a UK-based artist, notable for his unique participatory photographic practice and his creation and construction of cameras. He has also used pinhole technology to create photographic images in a variety of pedagogic contexts....
     (Artist)
  • Ben Lee
    Ben Lee

    Benjamin Michael Lee is an ARIA Award winning Jewish Australian musician and actor. Lee began his career as a musician at the age of 14 with the Sydney band Noise Addict, but focused on his solo career when the band broke up....
     (Art Director and Graphic Designer)
  • Denys Lasdun
    Denys Lasdun

    Sir Denys Lasdun Order of the Companions of Honour was an eminent England architect of the 20th century. Probably his best known work is the Royal National Theatre, on London's South Bank of the River Thames, which is a Grade II listed building and one of the most notable examples of Brutalism design in the United Kingdom....
     (Architect)
  • David Leland
    David Leland

    David Leland is a director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987....
     (Director, Screenwriter and Actor)
  • Frank Leder
    Frank Leder

    Frank Leder is a German fashion designer....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh

    Mike Leigh, Order of the British Empire is an England writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and did his early acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company ....
     (Film Director)
  • Cathy Lomax
    Cathy Lomax

    Cathy Lomax is a London artist, curator and director of the Transition Gallery....
     (Artist and Gallery Director)
  • Richard Long
    Richard Long

    Richard Long is a name shared by the following individuals:...
     (Artist and 1989 Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     Winner.)
  • Glen Matlock
    Glen Matlock

    Glen Matlock is a bass guitarist most famous for being in the original lineup of the punk rock band Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook has said that Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer John Lydon came up with the lyrics....
     (Bass Player for the Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols

    The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
    )
  • Stella McCartney
    Stella McCartney

    Stella Nina McCartney is an England fashion designer. She is the daughter of former The Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and his first wife, deceased rock photographer and animal rights activist Linda McCartney....
     (Fashion Designer.)
  • Helen McCrory
    Helen McCrory

    Helen McCrory is a BAFTA-winning England actress. She is best known for portrayals of Cherie Blair in the 2007 adaption The Queen and her award winning role as Rose Fitzgerald in the TV series, North Square....
     (Actress)
  • Bruce McLean
    Bruce McLean

    Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966....
     (Performance Artist)
  • Alexander McQueen
    Alexander McQueen

    Alexander McQueen Order of the British Empire is an English fashion designer....
     (Fashion Designer.)
  • Bernard Meninsky
    Bernard Meninsky

    Bernard Meninsky was a figurative artist, painter of figures and landscape in oils, watercolour and gouache, draughtsman and teacher. He was born in Karotopin now in the Ukraine but raised in Liverpool where he attended the Liverpool School of Art in 1906 after initially attending evening classes in art....
     (Artist)
  • John Minton
    John Minton (artist)

    Francis John Minton was a United Kingdom painter and illustrator of landscapes, portraits, and figures, as well as a theatrical designer.Born in Cambridge, Minton was a boarder at Reading School from 1932 to 1935....
     (Artist)
  • Bill Moggridge
    Bill Moggridge

    William Moggridge, a British industrial designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO. He helped design what was arguably the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass....
     (Industrial Design and Faculty Member at Stanford University, Co-founder of IDEO
    IDEO

    IDEO is a design consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, United States with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai....
    )
  • May Morris (Textile Designer)
  • M.I.A.
    M.I.A. (artist)

    Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a Great Britain songwriter, record producer, Singing and artist....
     (Singer, Artist and Filmmaker)
  • Alex Michon
    Alex Michon

    Alex Michon is a United Kingdom artist, based in London, and runs the Transition Gallery in London Borough of Hackney with Cathy Lomax....
     (Artist)
  • John Napier (designer)
    John Napier (designer)

    For other people with the same name, see John Napier .John Napier is a Tony Award-winning Scenic design for Broadway theatre and West End theatre theatrical performances....
     (Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     Winning Set Designer)
  • Paul Nash
    Paul Nash (artist)

    Paul Nash was an England war artist....
     (War Artist)
  • Navia Nguyen
    Navia Nguyen

    Navia Nguyen, born in 1973 in Saigon, South Vietnam, is a Vietnamese American Model and Actor.Navia grew up in New York City and moved to London after finishing school to study at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design....
     (Model)
  • Winifred Nicholson
    Winifred Nicholson

    Winifred Nicholson was an England painter, a Colorist who developed a personalized Impressionism style that concentrated on domestic subjects and landscapes....
     (Painter)
  • Adrian Noble
    Adrian Noble

    Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and Chief executive officer of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003....
     (Artistic Director and former Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company
    Royal Shakespeare Company

    The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Theatre Royal, Newcastle, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre....
    )
  • Bruce Oldfield
    Bruce Oldfield

    Bruce Oldfield OBE is a United Kingdom fashion designer, best known for his couture occasionwear. He dresses Hollywood actresses, British and International royalty and European aristocracy; famous clients have included Sienna Miller, Barbara Streisand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diana Ross, Anjelica Huston, Faye Dunaway, Melanie Griffith, Charlot...
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Seán O'Mara
    Seán O'Mara

    File:Sean O'Mara.jpgSe?n O'Mara is an Ireland graphic designer. He is also an artist, writer and photographer. He was born in Holland in 1967. He is notably one of Ireland's consistently best graphic design talents with his unique personal style and highly original design output....
     (Graphic Designer + Graffiti Artist XON)
  • Joshua Oppenheimer
    Joshua Oppenheimer

    Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer is an United States film film director based in London, UK.Oppenheimer's films push the boundaries of fiction and documentary....
     (Film Director)
  • Thérèse Oulton
    Thérèse Oulton

    Th?r?se Oulton is an England Painting.Born in Shropshire, Oulton studied in the late 1970s at St Martin's School of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art....
     (Painter)
  • Lawson Oyekan
    Lawson Oyekan

    Lawson Oyekan , is a contemporary ceramic sculptor and the first recipient of the Grand Prix Award for the 1st World Ceramic Biennale 2001 in Korea....
     (Ceramic Sculptor)
  • Rifat Ozbek
    Rifat Ozbek

    Rifat Ozbek is a Turkish people-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits.Born in Istanbul in 1953, ?zbek moved to Great Britain in 1970 in order to study architecture, and while there discovered his interest in fashion design....
    , (Fashion Designer)
  • Anita Pallenberg
    Anita Pallenberg

    Anita Pallenberg is a model , actor and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979....
     (Actress, Fashion Designer and Model)
  • Victor Pasmore
    Victor Pasmore

    Edwin John Victor Pasmore was a United Kingdom artist and architect. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s....
     (Artist and Architect)
  • Platon
    Platon (photographer)

    Platon is a 21st century photographer who has taken portraits of many presidents and well known world figures. His photo of Vladimir Putin was on the cover of Time Magazine in 2007....
     (Photographer)
  • Eduardo Paolozzi
    Eduardo Paolozzi

    Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, Order of the British Empire, Royal Academy , was a Scotland sculpture and artist. He was a major figure in the international art world working without compromise on his own interpretation and vision of the world around us....
     (Artist)
  • Mervyn Peake
    Mervyn Peake

    Mervyn Laurence Peake was an England Modernist literature, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books....
     (Writer and Illustrator)
  • Phoebe Philo
    Phoebe Philo

    Phoebe Philo is an English people fashion designer.Phoebe Philo is a former fashion designer of the fashion house Chlo?. Philo began working for Chlo? in 1997 as Stella McCartney's design assistant....
     (Fashion Designer Creative Director for Celine.)
  • Zac Posen
    Zac Posen

    Zac Posen is an American fashion designer....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Gareth Pugh
    Gareth Pugh

    Gareth Pugh is an England fashion designer. He currently lives and works in Paris....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Stephen Pusey
    Stephen Pusey

    Stephen Pusey is an artist. After graduating from St Martins School of Art, UK, in 1975, Pusey created monumental public murals around London, including the Brixton murals until the end of the decade....
     (Artist)
  • Chris Redding (Visual Effects Artist)
  • Philip Ridley
    Philip Ridley

    Philip Ridley is a British people artist working with various media. His work is characterised by an intriguing mix of both the menacing and the magical....
     (Painter, Writer, Filmmaker and Photographer)
  • Diana Ross
    Diana Ross (author)

    Diana Patience Beverly Ross , relative of Robert Baldwin Ross, was an England children's literature and occasional and longtime resident of Shaw, Wiltshire, near Melksham, in Wiltshire....
     (Children's Author)
  • Claudia Roden
    Claudia Roden

    Claudia Roden born 1936 in Cairo, Egypt is a cookbook writer based in the United Kingdom, best known as the author of A Book of Middle Eastern Food , The New Book of Middle Eastern Food ...
     (Writer)
  • Michael Rothenstein
    Michael Rothenstein

    William Michael Rothenstein RA was an English printmaker, painter and art teacher....
     (Printmaker, Painter and Art Teacher)
  • Faris Rotter (Musician, Singer and Illustrator)
  • Gerald Scarfe
    Gerald Scarfe

    Gerald Anthony Scarfe, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry, is an England cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his work as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker....
     (Cartoonist and Illustrator)
  • Kissy Sell Out
    Kissy Sell Out

    Kissy Sell Out is a DJ, producer and graphic designer from the UK. Kissy Sell Out quickly gained notoriety in 2006 for his eccentric Electrohouse productions and energetic DJ style....
     (Graphic Designer and DJ)
  • Richard Seymour
    Richard Seymour

    Richard Vershaun Seymour is an American football defensive lineman for the New England Patriots of the National Football League....
     (Graphic & Industrial Design, President of D&AD)
  • Jack Shepherd (Actor)
  • Yinka Shonibare
    Yinka Shonibare

    Yinka Shonibare, Order of the British Empire is a contemporary artist living in Britain....
     (Artist)
  • John Simm
    John Simm

    John Ronald Simm is an England actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in two British Academy Television Awards award-winning BBC Wales dramas: as Sam Tyler in the detective drama Life on Mars and as an incarnation of the Master in the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who....
     (Actor)
  • Posy Simmonds
    Posy Simmonds

    Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a United Kingdom newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of Children's literature. She is best known for her long association with The Guardian, for which she has drawn the cartoons Gemma Bovery and Tamara Drewe , both later published as books....
     (Cartoonist)
  • Marianne Straub
    Marianne Straub

    Marianne Straub was one of the leading designers of textiles in Britain during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.She was born in the village of Amriswil, Switzerland on 23 September 1909....
     (Textile Designer)
  • Paul Simonon
    Paul Simonon

    Paul Gustave Simonon is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for punk rock band The Clash. His most recent work is his involvement in the album The Good, the Bad & the Queen with Damon Albarn, Simon Tong and Tony Allen, released in January 2007....
     (Bass Guitar Player)
  • Paul Smith
    Paul Smith (fashion designer)

    Sir Paul Smith, Royal Designers for Industry, is an England fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear. He is both commercially successful and highly respected within the fashion industry....
     (Fashion Designer)
  • Ruskin Spear
    Ruskin Spear

    Ruskin Spear, Order of the British Empire, RA was an England painter.Born in Hammersmith, Spear attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930....
     (Painter)
  • John Standing
    John Standing

    Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet is an England actor....
     (Actor)
  • Vivian Stanshall
    Vivian Stanshall

    Vivian Stanshall was an England singer-songwriter, Painting, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surrealism exploration of the United Kingdom upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End , and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells....
     (Musician and Writer)
  • Joe Strummer
    Joe Strummer

    John Graham Mellor , better known by his stage name Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead singer of the English punk rock band The Clash....
     (Musician)
  • Afewerk Tekle
    Afewerk Tekle

    Afewerk Tekle is one of Ethiopia's most celebrated artists, particularly known for his paintings on African and Christian themes as well as his stained glass....
     (Artist)
  • Mackenzie Thorpe
    Mackenzie Thorpe

    Mackenzie Thorpe is a United Kingdom artist.Born as the first of seven children into the post-war industrial town, Thorpe initially took on work in the shipyards, such were his familial origins....
     (Artist)
  • Mark Titchner
    Mark Titchner

    Mark Titchner is an England artist and a nominee for the 2006 Turner Prize. He lives and works in London.Mark Titchner was born in Luton. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, in 1995....
     (Artist and Turner Prize
    Turner Prize

    The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
     nominee)
  • William G. Tucker
    William G. Tucker

    William G. Tucker is a modernist British sculptor and modern art scholar. He was born to English parents in Cairo, Egypt in 1935. In 1937, his family returned to England, where Tucker was raised....
     (Sculptor)
  • John Tunnard
    John Tunnard

    John Samuel Tunnard was an England surrealism and modernism designer and Painting. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard....
     (Artist)
  • Philip Turner
    Philip Turner

    Philip William Turner is an England author best known for his children's books about the fictional town of Darnley Mills and about the Reverend Septimus Treloar....
     (Author)
  • Ronis Varlaam
    Ronis Varlaam

    Born in Nicosia,Cyprus in 1946, Ronis Varlaam is a graduate of the London Film School and St Martin's School of Art.He has produced and directed several documentaries for Channel 4 including...
     (Film Director and Painter)
  • Keith Vaughan
    Keith Vaughan

    John Keith Vaughan was a United Kingdom painter.Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as a conscientious objector he joined the St....
     (Painter)
  • Tom Vek
    Tom Vek

    Tom Vek is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician....
     (Musician and Graphic Designer)
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    Frances de la Tour

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  • Maximillion Cooper
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