Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (often abbreviated as
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University of the Arts LondonThe University of the Arts London, formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six internationally recognised art, design, fashion and media colleges in London, England, UK...
, and is widely regarded as a leading British
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and
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Profile
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design was formed in 1989 from the merger of
Central School of Art and Design, founded in 1896, and
Saint Martins School of Art, founded in 1854. Central Saint Martins became a constituent College of the
London Institute in 1986, a federal body formed by the
Inner London Education AuthorityThe Inner London Education Authority was the education authority for the 12 inner London boroughs from 1965 until its abolition in 1990....
to bring together
London[]London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
'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 LondonThe University of the Arts London, formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six internationally recognised art, design, fashion and media colleges in London, England, UK...
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 recognised research profile as rated in the
Research Assessment ExerciseThe 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 PrizeThe 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. Uniquely it forms part of the British honours system, to date rounds have occurred in...
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 AcademySkillset is the industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative media industries maintain their position. It was founded by David Puttnam, and is jointly funded by industry and government...
status in 2007, recognising the achievements in the area of
mediaMass media denotes a section of the media specifically designed to reach a very large audience such as the population of a nation state. The term was coined in the 1920s with the advent of nationwide radio networks, mass-circulation newspapers and magazines. However, some forms of mass media such...
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
museumA museum is a building or institution which houses a collection of artifacts.Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary...
status for its historical and contemporary collections.
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 CouncilLondon 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. It covered the area today known as Inner London and was replaced by the Greater London Council...
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 movementThe Arts and Crafts Movement was a British, Canadian, Australian, and American aesthetic movement occurring in the last years of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century...
sponsored by
William MorrisWilliam Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, socialist and Marxist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts...
and
John RuskinJohn Ruskin was an English art critic and social thinker, also remembered as an author, poet and artist. His essays on art and architecture were extremely influential in the Victorian and Edwardian 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
architectAn architect is trained and licensed 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. chief builder...
, educationalist and
conservationistConservationists are proponents or advocates of the ethic of conservation and may be part of the conservation movement.Conservationists advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
William LethabyWilliam Richard Lethaby was an English architect and architectural historian whose ideas were highly influential on the late Arts and Crafts and early Modern movements in architecture, and in the fields of conservation and art education.-Early life:Lethaby was born in Barnstaple, Devon, the son of...
was a key figure in the foundation of the school and was appointed joint principal with
George FramptonSir George James Frampton, RA was a notable British sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement. -Early life and career:...
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 authorities of
St Martin-in-the-FieldsSt. Martin-in-the-Fields is an Anglican church at the northeast corner of Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. Its patron is Saint Martin of Tours.-Roman era:Excavations at the site in 2006 led to the discovery of a grave dated about 410...
. 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
parishA parish is a territorial unit that was usually historically served by a local church. This administrative unit is typically found in Roman Catholic, Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Church of Sweden, United Methodist, and Presbyterian 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
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and
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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 GilbertSir John Gilbert was a British artist.-Biography:He was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. Skilled in several media, he gained the nickname, "the Scott of painting"...
.
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 DramaThe 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. The school has been a constituent college of the University of London since 2005...
, led by John Blatchley, Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes. The school is a member of the
Conference of Drama SchoolsThe Conference of Drama Schools comprises 22 accredited drama schools in Britain. Founded in 1969, the 22 member schools offer courses in Acting, Musical Theatre, Directing and Technical Theatre training.-Members:*Academy of Live and Recorded Arts...
and its undergraduate
ActingActing 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 character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play...
course is accredited by the
National Council for Drama TrainingThe 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 ShawJohn Byam Liston Shaw , commonly known as Byam Shaw, was an Indian-born British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher.-Family:...
and
Rex Vicat ColeReginald Rex Vicat Cole was an English landscape painter, son of the artist George Vicat Cole. He was educated at Eton and began to exhibit in London in 1890. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists...
in 1910 as a school of
drawingDrawing 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, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint...
and
paintingPainting 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. Paintings may have for their support such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, clay or concrete...
(originally located in
KensingtonKensington 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.To the...
, 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
HolbornHolborn 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...
,
SohoSoho is an area in the centre of the West End 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...
,
ClerkenwellClerkenwell is an area of central London in the London Borough of Islington. Clerkenwell was once known as London's "Little Italy" because of the large number of Italians living in the area between the 1850s and the 1960s.-Clerks' Well:...
and Archway.
Kings Cross
Central Saint Martins has revealed plans to move to a purpose built complex at
Kings CrossKings 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 2.5 miles north of Charing Cross. The area formerly had a reputation for being a red light district and run-down. However, rapid regeneration...
in 2011. The move will create one college site thereby unifying the five schools at one location.
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 TheatreThe 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.-History:...
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 RowSouthampton Row is major thoroughfare running northwest-southeast in Bloomsbury, Camden, central London, England. The road is designated as part of the A4200.- Location :...
campus in
HolbornHolborn 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...
. 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 LondonThe University of the Arts London, formerly known as the London Institute, is a collegiate university comprising six internationally recognised art, design, fashion and media colleges in London, England, UK...
, with
Camberwell College of ArtsCamberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost art and design institutions. It is located in Camberwell, South London with two sites situated at Peckham Road and Wilson Road...
,
Chelsea College of Art and DesignChelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design school...
,
London College of CommunicationThe London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The college is located in Elephant and Castle, South London, and was originally based in Stamford Street, Waterloo...
,
London College of FashionThe 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 ArtWimbledon 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 and Merton Park, South West London.-History:...
.
Exchange
Central Saint Martins has exchange links with the
Parsons The New School for DesignParsons The New School For Design , is the highly competitive art and design college of The New School, a university located in New York City's Greenwich Village. It is a prominent and esteemed fashion school , producing legendary designers like Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, and Isaac Mizrahi...
in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
, USA the
Bunka Fashion Collegeis 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, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture, totaling over 8 million people....
,
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and the School Of The Art Institute Of Chicago (SAIC).
Notable alumni
Former students and staff include:
- Norman Ackroyd
Norman Ackroyd, CBE, R.A. is an English 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. Subsequently he lived for several years in the...
(Printmaker)
- Sade Adu
Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, , better known as Sade , is an English-Nigerian singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.-Biography:Sade was born in Ibadan,...
(Singer)
- 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 Helmut Auerbach is a German-born British painter. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town.-Career:...
(Painter)
- 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...
(Architectural Critic and Writer)
- Faris Badwan (Lead Singer of The Horrors
The Horrors are an English Garage Rock and Shoegaze band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached number 37 on the UK Albums Chart, in 2007...
)
- Jeff Banks
Jeff Banks CBE is a renowned Welsh designer of both men's and women's clothing, jewellery, and home furnishings.-Biography:Banks was born in the Monmouthshire valleys of South Wales, at Ebbw Vale...
(Designer and Presenter of the BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
's The Clothes ShowThe Clothes Show is a British television show about fashion that can currently be seen weeknights on Really. It was formerly broadcast on BBC One from 1986 to 2000.-BBC series :...
)
- Jonathan Barnbrook
Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer and typographer. Born in Luton in 1966, Barnbrook trained at Central St Martin's and at the Royal College of Art .- Work :...
(Graphic Design, Former Art Director of AdbustersAdbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
magazine)
- 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!-Early life:...
(Composer)
- 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. She is the sister of Julian Bell and Virginia Bell and the grandniece of Virginia Woolf.She trained at St...
(Textile Designer)
- John Berger
John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter 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.-Biography:Born in Hackney, London, England, Berger attended...
(Art Critic, Novelist, Painter and Author)
- Sara Berman
Sara Berman is a successful British fashion women's wear brand that started as a summer project by Sara Berman in 1998. It started with a range of skirts being sold in Harrods and Fenwick Bond Street. Taking advantage of her mother’s business contacts and working in an upstairs office in her...
(Fashion Designer)
- Noel Betowski
Noel Betowski is an artist living and working in Cornwall. He studied Fine Art at the Central School of Art 1972-76 and art education at the University of London 1976-77....
(Artist)
- 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.-Early life:...
(Actor)
- Peter Blake
Sir Peter Thomas Blake, CBE, RDI, is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:...
(Artist)
- Sandra Blow
Sandra Blow was an English painter.-Life and work:Sandra Blow was born in London, England, and studied at Saint Martins School of Art from 1941 to 1946, at the Royal Academy Schools from 1946 to 1947, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome from 1947 to 1948...
(Painter)
- Stephen Billington
Stephen Billington is a British actor, best known for playing Greg Kelly in Coronation Street . He has worked with many leading film directors, including Peter Greenaway, Franco Zeffirelli, and Mel Gibson...
(Actor)
- Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor, film producer and environmentalist, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. After leaving school at 16, Brosnan began training in commercial illustration, but trained at the Drama Centre in London for three years...
(Actor)
- Maria Bjornson
Maria Björnson was an acclaimed theatre stage designer, born in Paris to Norwegian and Romanian parents....
(Theatre Designer)
- Hamish Bowles
Hamish Bowles is the European Editor at Large for Vogue and recognized as one of the most respected authorities on the worlds of fashion and interior design. After beginning as Vogue’s Style Editor in 1992, Mr. Bowles was promoted to European Editor at Large in 1995...
(Fashion Journalist and Editor for American VogueVogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in 16 countries + Latin America by Condé Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design.-Style and influence:...
)
- Jason Brooks (Illustrator, known for his work with Hed Kandi
Hed Kandi is a UK-based record label and a music brand which was established in 1999 by Mark Doyle, specializing in commercial house music...
)
- Derek Boshier
Derek Boshier is a British pop artist works in various media including painting, drawing, collage, photography, film and sculpture....
(Painter)
- John Burningham
-Biography:Burningham was born April 27, 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, England to Charles and Jessie Burningham. After primary school, he joined the Friend's Ambulance Unit in 1953. When he was 20, he attended the Central School of Art and graduated in 1959...
(Children's Author and Illustrator)
- A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist and poet. She is daughter of His Honour John Frederick Drabble, QC and late Kathleen Marie Bloor and is married to Peter Duffy. She is usually known as A. S...
(Author)
- Simon Callow
Simon Phillip Hugh Callow, CBE is an English actor, writer and theatre director.-Early years:Callow was born in Streatham, London, UK, to Yvonne Mary Guise, a secretary, and Neil Francis Callow, a businessman...
(Actor)
- 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 .-Biography:Calman was the youngest of the...
(Cartoonist)
- Michael Cardew
Michael Cardew, OBE, was an English studio potter 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 G.W.Kitchin, the first Chancellor of Durham University...
(Ceramics)
- Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE, is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblies of metal using 'found' industrial objects....
(Sculptor)
- Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan MBE is a British/Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1993.- Biography :...
(Fashion Designer and Creative Director for Puma.)
- Bryan Charnley
Bryan Charnley was a British artist most famous for a series of surreal self portraits he painted examining his schizophrenia and the effect of the different medications he used to control the condition. Charnley was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1971 while at the Central Saint Martins College...
(Artist)
- 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 is an English artist, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...
(Painter, Writer, Musician)
- Michael Chow (Restaurateur, Interior Designer, and Part Time Actor)
- Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Branson Cocker is an English musician and former frontman for the band Pulp. Through his work with the band, Cocker became a figurehead of the Britpop movement of the mid-1990s.-Biography:...
, (Lead Vocalist of PulpPulp were an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Upon their split in 2002, their lineup consisted of Jarvis Cocker , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....
)
- Bernald Cohen
See also Bernard Cohen for other people by this name.Bernard Cohen is a British artist. Ten of his works are in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery. He was born in London in 1933 and came to prominence during the 1960s...
(Painter)
- Cecil Collins
Cecil Collins was an English artist originally associated with the Surrealist movement.He was born in Plymouth and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Devonport. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Plymouth School of Art...
(Artist)
- 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", although in the same interview he confesses that this is more a popular assumption about him than his own idea.-Life...
(British Art Critic and Broadcaster)
- Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...
(Designer, Retailer and Restaurateur)
- John Copnall
John Bainbridge Copnall was an English artist best known for his abstract expressionist painting of richly coloured stylised realism, often on a grand scale. He was also a teacher of painting for twenty years at the Central School of Art and Design in London.- Early life :John Copnall was born in...
(Abstract expressionist & teacher)
- Jack Coutu
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(Printmaker and Sculptor)
- Alan Davie
James Alan Davie is a Scottish painter and musician.He was born in Grangemouth, near Edinburgh, and studied at Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1930s. An early exhibition of his work came through the Society of Scottish Artists...
(Painter and Musician)
- Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon CBE is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.-Life and work:Richard Deacon was born in Bangor in Wales, educated at Plymouth College and then studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, St Martin's School of Art in London and the Royal College of Art,...
(Sculptor and 1987 Turner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
Winner.)
- Len Deighton
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(Author)
- Frances de la Tour
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(Actress)
- Sokari Douglas Camp
Sokari Douglas Camp is an artist who has had exhibitions all over the world and was the reeipient of a bursary from the Henry Moore Foundation, as well as being honored as a Commander of the British Empire in the 2005 Honours List....
(Artist)
- Braco Dimitrijevic
Braco Dimitrijević is a Bosnian 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 is a Scottish painter.-Biography:Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, and in 1962 moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada...
(Painter)
- Arthur Dooley
Arthur Dooley was a British artist and sculptor. 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)
- Lina Dorado
Lina Dorado is a contemporary artist and filmmaker based in New York City noted for her multimedia work and travel photography, Lina Dorado has authored two books in bilingual editions: Doble Vista / Second Sight and Drawing Only, Solo Dibujo alongside her long term collaborator: Luis Cantillo...
(Artist and Filmmaker)
- Mich Dulce
Mich Dulce is a Filipina fashion designer, actress and vocalist of bands Death By Tampon and Us-2 Evil-0....
(Fashion Designer)
- James Dyson
Sir James Dyson , is an English industrial designer.He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2008 was said to be £1.1 billion.-Biography:Dyson is one of three children whose father, Alec Dyson, died of...
(Industrial Design. CEO of Dyson)
- Ronald Ferns
Ronald Ferns was an English illustrator, designer, cartoonist and surrealist painter in oil and watercolour....
(Illustrator)
- Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth is an English film, television, and stage actor. Firth first gained wide public attention, especially in England, for his portrayal of Mr. Darcy in the highly acclaimed 1995 television adaption of Pride and Prejudice...
(Actor and Writer)
- 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 is an English actress.-Early life:She is the daughter of Sarah FitzGerald, an artist and photographer, who is Irish and her father Michael Callaby was English. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to Freeport, in the Bahamas, where her sister Arabella was born in 1968, but the...
(Actor)
- Barry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan was a Welsh sculptor, best known for his bronze statues of hares.-Biography:Barry Flanagan was born in Prestatyn, North Wales. He studied at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts before going on to St. Martin's School of Art in London in 1964. Flanagan graduated in 1966 and went on...
(Artist)
- 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)
- Frankmusik
Vincent Frank known professionally as Frankmusik, is a British electropop musician. The name 'Frank' is derived from the surname of his grandfather, whom he took the name of as a tribute.-Biography:Frankmusik attended Christ's Hospital boarding school, in West Sussex...
(Musician)
- Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH is a British painter of German origin.- Early life and family :He is the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch...
(Painter)
- Elisabeth Frink
Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink, DBE, CH, RA was an English sculptor and printmaker-Career:...
(Sculptor and Printmaker)
- Anthony Froshaug
Anthony Froshaug was an English typographer 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
, born on January 11, 1985 in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer-songwriter. She regularly commutes between the United Kingdom and Japan to record and promote her work.-Biography:From 1992 to 1995, Rie fu lived in Maryland with her family...
(Singer)
- John Galliano
Juan Carlos Antonio Galliano Guillén, CBE, RDI , professionally known as John Galliano, is a Gibraltarian-British fashion designer.-Early life and career:...
(Fashion Designer and Creative Director for Dior.)
- Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George are two contemporary artists who work together as a duo.Gilbert Proesch and George Passmore have become famous for their distinctive , highly formal appearance and manner...
(Artists and 1986 Turner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
Winner.)
- A. A. Gill
Adrian Anthony Gill is a British 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
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...
(Sculptor, Typographer, Stonecutter and Printmaker)
- Anthony Gormley (Artist)
- Andrew Grassie
Andrew Grassie is a Scottish 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 is a London-based English fashion designer specialising in womenswear, menswear and prints. He is currently Course Director for BA Fashion Design at the University of Westminster, where he has lectured since 2001. He also works as a creative director, stylist and writer.Groves is...
(Fashion Designer)
- Shirin Guild
Shirin Guild is a contemporary British Iranian 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 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-Lothringen is an art collector and the wife of Karl Habsburg-Lothringen heir to the headship of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.-Life:...
(Art Collector)
- General Sir John Winthrop Hackett Junior
General Sir John Winthrop Hackett GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC was an Australian-born British soldier, author and university administrator.- Early life :...
, (Army General, author, and Principal of King's College LondonKing's College London is a British higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the University of London. Founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, its royal charter is predated, in England, only by those of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge...
)
- David Hall
David Hall is a significant British video artist. He began as a sculptor exhibiting internationally, winning 1st prize at the Biennale de Paris in 1965. In 1966 he was represented in the seminal minimal art show, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York.In 1967 he began working with...
(Video Artist)
- Kathleen Hale
Kathleen Hale was a British artist, illustrator, and children's author. She is best remembered for her series of books about Orlando the Marmalade Cat....
(Artist, Illustrator and Children's Author)
- Richard Hamilton
Richard Hamilton, CH is an English painter 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...
(Artist and Turner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
nominee)
- Katharine Hamnett
Katharine E. Hamnett is an English fashion designer best known for her political t-shirts and her ethical business philosophy. She graduated from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design....
, (Fashion Designer.)
- PJ Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Raised in Corscombe, Dorset, Harvey formed the band as a teenager with drummer Rob Ellis and bassist Ian Olliver, who was replaced with Steve Vaughan. The trio released their first album Dry in 1992...
(Musician)
- Tim Hatley
Tim Hatley is a British set and costume designer for theater and film. He is the winner of the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design.Hatley was educated at Bearwood...
(Theatre Designer)
- Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum is a performance artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.-Life and work:Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon. During a visit to London in 1975, civil war broke out in Lebanon and she was forced into exile...
(Performance and Installation Artist)
- Patrick Heron
Patrick Heron , was an English painter, writer and designer, based in St. Ives, Cornwall.- Early life :...
(Painter, Writer and Designer)
- Richard Heslop
Richard Heslop is a British 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.-Biography:1977 British Freestyle Skateboard Champion...
(Film Director)
- John Hilliard
John Hilliard, is an English 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 is a German 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 is an English artist and photographer, who was a Turner Prize nominee.In 1996 he was nominated for the Turner Prize...
(Artist, Photographer and Turner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
nominee)
- Barbara Hulanicki
Barbara Hulanicki is a Warsaw-born fashion designer, known for being the founder of the iconic clothes store Biba. Born in Warsaw, to Polish parents, after studying at Brighton Art College, now the University of Brighton, Hulanicki won a London Evening Standard competition for beachwear in 1955...
(Designer.)
- John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since retained a career as a lead and supporting actor of many popular motion pictures, including: Watership Down, Midnight Express, Alien, The...
(Actor)
- Neil Innes
Neil James Innes is an English 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.-Personal life:...
(Singer and Parodist)
- Geraldine James
Geraldine James OBE is an award-winning English actress. Theatre director Peter Hall has said that Geraldine James ranks among the great English classical actresses.James was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire to a cardiologist father...
(Actress)
- Clare Johnson
Clare Johnson is an American writer and artist from Seattle, Washington.Her work deals with the parallel themes of memory and loss.- Art :Technically trained at Brown University, Providence, USA, Slade School of Fine Art, London, England and Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London,...
(Artist, writer)
- Edward Johnston
Edward Johnston, CBE was a British 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. He was born in San José, Uruguay...
(Craftsman)
- Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones is a British journalist who is editor of GQ UK.Jones attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London where he studied graphic design. He began his career in journalism at i-D magazine, becoming Editor in 1984 before moving onto Arena in 1987 to serve as Editor...
(Editor of British GQ)
- Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984, where he studied painting and fine art film...
(Filmmaker and Installation Artist)
- 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."-Early life:The twins were born in 1928 to...
(Illustrators)
- 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.- Biography :...
(Fashion Designer)
- Annie Kevans
Annie Kevans is an English 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 is a British industrial designer of Czech origin. He was Managing Director and Chief Designer of Ogle Design from 1962 until 1999. He oversaw design of the Bush Radio TR130 radio, the Chopper bicycle, the Bond Bug, the Reliant Scimitar GTE, the Anadol A1 , an award-winning series of...
(Industrial Designer)
- 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 is a well-known Greek 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...
(Fashion Designer)
- 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. He is an alumnus of Camberwell College of Arts and...
(Artist)
- Ben Lee
Benjamin Michael "Ben" Lee is an ARIA Award winning 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. He appeared as the protagonist in the Australian film The Rage in Placid Lake...
(Art Director and Graphic Designer)
- Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Lasdun CH was an eminent English 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 Brutalist design in the United...
(Architect)
- 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 is a German fashion designer.-Biography:Frank Leder studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, where he was awarded an MA with distinction....
(Fashion Designer)
- Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh, OBE is an English 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 . He began as a theatre director and playwright in the 1960s...
(Film Director)
- Cathy Lomax
Cathy Lomax is a London artist, curator and director of the Transition Gallery.-Life and career:Cathy Lomax is an artist mainly known for her figurative paintings. She has a BA Fine Art from London Guildhall University , and an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design...
(Artist and Gallery Director)
- Richard Long
-English political figures:*Richard Long , Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII; knighted in 1537; MP for Southwark...
(Artist and 1989 Turner PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
Winner.)
- Frank Marcus
Frank Marcus was a playwright, best known for The Killing of Sister George.-Life:Frank Ulrich Marcus was born 30 June 1928 into a Jewish family in Breslau . They came to England as refugees in 1939...
(Playwright)
- 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 Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics...
(Bass Player for the Sex PistolsThe Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They are responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...
)
- Stella McCartney
Stella Nina McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer and animal rights activist, Linda McCartney.-Early life:...
(Fashion Designer.)
- Helen McCrory
Helen McCrory is an English actress. She is best known for portrayals of Cherie Blair in the 2006 adaption The Queen and her role as Narcissa Malfoy in the final three adaptations of the final two Harry Potter books.-Early life:...
(Actress)
- 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 CBE is an English fashion designer.-Biography:Born in the East End of London, the son of a taxi driver, McQueen started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his intention of becoming a fashion designer...
(Fashion Designer.)
- 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...
(Artist)
- John Minton
Francis John Minton was a British painter and illustrator of landscapes, portraits, and figures, as well as a theatrical designer....
(Artist)
- Bill Moggridge
William Moggridge, a British industrial and interaction 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. He advocates applying a user-centered design process in product development cycles and also...
(Industrial Design and Faculty Member at Stanford University, Co-founder of IDEOIDEO is a design and innovation consultancy based in Palo Alto, California, United States with other offices in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich and Shanghai. The company helps design products, services, environments, and digital experiences...
)
- May Morris
Mary "May" Morris was an English artisan, embroidery designer, socialist, and editor. She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and the artists' model Jane Burden.-Biography:...
(Textile Designer)
- M.I.A.
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A., is an English songwriter, record producer, singer, fashion designer, and artist of Sri Lankan Tamil origin....
(Singer, Artist and Filmmaker)
- Alex Michon
Alex Michon is a British artist, based in London, and runs the Transition Gallery in Hackney with Cathy Lomax.-Career:Alex Michon is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. She exhibits her work, which is mostly painting and drawing. She also writes for Arty magazine...
(Artist)
- John Napier (designer)
For other people with the same name, see John Napier .John Napier is a Tony Award-winning set designer for Broadway and London theatrical performances.-Biography:...
(Tony AwardThe Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...
Winning Set Designer)
- Paul Nash
Paul Nash was an English landscape painter,surrealist and war artist.-Early life:He was the son of a successful lawyer, and born in London on 11 May, 1889. Nash was educated at St Paul's School and spent a year at the Slade School of Art...
(War Artist)
- Renee Nele
E. R. Nele is a German sculptor famous for goldsmithing and large scale metal sculpturesShe was born in Berlin, the daughter of Marie-Louise and Arnold Bode . She started her career in 1950 as a student of the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She participated in Documenta II,...
(sculptor)
- Navia Nguyen
Navia Nguyen, born in 1973 in Saigon, South Vietnam, is a Vietnamese American model and actress.Navia grew up in New York City and moved to London after finishing school to study at St. Martin's College of Art. She was spotted by a photographer while shopping in Camden Town...
(Model)
- Winifred Nicholson
Winifred Nicholson was an English painter, a colourist who developed a personalized impressionistic style that concentrated on domestic subjects and landscapes. In her work, the two motifs are often combined in a view out of a window, featuring flowers in a vase or a jug.Nicholson was born in...
(Painter)
- Adrian Noble
Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director, and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.-Education and career:...
(Artistic Director and former Chief Executive of the Royal Shakespeare CompanyThe Royal Shakespeare Company is a major British theatre company. Located primarily at Stratford-upon-Avon, with bases also in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, it is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly-funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal National Theatre.-The early...
)
- Bruce Oldfield
Bruce Oldfield OBE is a British 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, Barbra Streisand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diana Ross, Emmanuelle Seigner,...
(Fashion Designer)
- Seán O'Mara
Seán O'Mara is an Irish graphic designer. He is also an artist, writer and photographer. He was born in Holland in 1967.-Family History:Seán O'Mara's father was Irish and his mother is Dutch. He has one brother, Eugene....
(Graphic Designer + Graffiti Artist XON)
- Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer is an American film director based in London, UK.Oppenheimer's films push the boundaries of fiction and documentary...
(Film Director)
- Thérèse Oulton
Thérèse Oulton is an English painter.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 , is a contemporary ceramic sculptor and the first recipient of the Grand Prix Award for the 1st World Ceramic Biennale 2001 in Korea.-Overview:...
(Ceramic Sculptor)
- Rifat Ozbek
Rifat Ozbek is a Turkish-born fashion designer, known for his exotic, ethnically-inspired outfits.Born in Istanbul in 1953, Özbek moved to Great Britain in 1970 in order to study architecture, and while there discovered his interest in fashion design. In 1976 he graduated with honours from St...
, (Fashion Designer)
- Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg is a model, actress and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979.-Early life:...
(Actress, Fashion Designer and Model)
- Victor Pasmore
Edwin John Victor Pasmore was a British artist and architect. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s....
(Artist and Architect)
- Platon
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
Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, KBE, FRA , was a Scottish sculptor 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. Paolozzi investigated how we can fit into the modern world to resemble our...
(Artist)
- Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J...
(Writer and Illustrator)
- Phoebe Philo
Phoebe Philo is an English fashion designer.Phoebe Philo is a former fashion designer of the fashion house Chloé. Philo began working for Chloé in 1997 as Stella McCartney's design assistant. Philo succeeded McCartney as creative director of the iconic luxury label in 2001 after McCartney was...
(Fashion Designer Creative Director for Celine.)
- Zac Posen
- Early life :Posen was raised in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan, the Jewish son of artist Stephen Posen and corporate lawyer Susan Posen. His interest in fashion design started early, and as a child he would steal yarmulkes from his grandparents' synagogue to make ball dresses for dolls...
(Fashion Designer)
- Gareth Pugh
Gareth Pugh is an English fashion designer. He currently lives and works in Paris.-Career:At 14, Pugh began working as a costume designer for the English National Youth Theatre. He started his fashion education at City of Sunderland College and finished his degree in Fashion Design at Central...
(Fashion Designer)
- 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 Academy mural until the end of the decade. In 1986 he emigrated to New York, USA. Although his New York debut at P.S...
(Artist)
- Philip Ridley
Philip Ridley is a British artist working with various media. His work is characterised by an intriguing mix of both the menacing and the magical. The term 'barbaric beauty' has often been used to describe his signature style. You can hear a recording of his voice on TheatreVoice.- Biography...
(Painter, Writer, Filmmaker and Photographer)
- Diana Ross
Diana Patience Beverly Ross , relative of Robert Ross, was an English children's author and occasional and longtime resident of Shaw, near Melksham, in Wiltshire...
(Children's Author)
- 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 Claudia Roden born 1936 in Cairo, Egypt is a cookbook writer based in the United Kingdom, best known as the...
(Writer)
- Michael Rothenstein
William Michael Rothenstein RA was an English printmaker, painter and art teacher.-Early life:Born in Hampstead, London, on 19 March 1908, he was the youngest of four children born to the celebrated artist, Sir William Rothenstein and his wife, Alice Knewstub.-Art:He was home schooled and studied...
(Printmaker, Painter and Art Teacher)
- Faris Rotter (Musician, Singer and Illustrator)
- Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker...
(Cartoonist and Illustrator)
- Kissy Sell Out
Kissy Sell Out is a DJ, producer and graphic designer from the UK. Kissy Sell Out quickly gained notability in 2006 for his eccentric electro productions and energetic DJ style...
(Graphic Designer and DJ)
- Richard Seymour
Richard Vershaun Seymour is an American football defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the New England Patriots sixth overall in the 2001 NFL Draft...
(Graphic & Industrial Design, President of D&ADDesign and Art Direction is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising...
)
- Jack Shepherd (Actor)
- Yinka Shonibare
Yinka Shonibare, MBE is a contemporary artist living in Britain.- Biography :Yinka Shonibare was born in London to Nigerian parents. At the age of three they moved to Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria, where he grew up. He spoke Yoruba at home, but only English at his exclusive private...
(Artist)
- John Simm
John Ronald Simm is an English actor and musician. He is best known for his roles in two BAFTA 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
Rosemary Elizabeth "Posy" Simmonds MBE is a British newspaper cartoonist and writer and illustrator of children's books. 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 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. Her father was a textile merchant so it was no surprise that she was soon attracted to a career in textiles. She studied...
(Textile Designer)
- 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.- Biography :Simonon was born in...
(Bass Guitar Player)
- Paul Smith
Sir Paul Smith, RDI, is an English 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, CBE, RA was an English painter.Born in Hammersmith, Spear attended the local art school before going on to the Royal College of Art in 1930...
(Painter)
- John Standing
Sir John Ronald Leon Standing, 4th Baronet is an English actor.-Early life:Standing was born John Ronald Leon in London, the son of Kay Hammond , an actress, and Sir Ronald George Leon, a stockbroker...
(Actor)
- Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.-The great...
(Musician and Writer)
- 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 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 is a British 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 is an English 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 PrizeThe Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
nominee)
- 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. He attended the University of Oxford from 1955-1958...
(Sculptor)
- John Tunnard
John Samuel Tunnard was an English Surrealist and Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.-Life:...
(Artist)
- Philip Turner
Philip William Turner is an English author best known for his children's books about the fictional town of Darnley Mills and about the Reverend Septimus Treloar.-Life:...
(Author)
- 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 includingThe Toughest Profession , The Enthusiasts and...
(Film Director and Painter)
- Keith Vaughan
John Keith Vaughan was a British painter.Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the war, when as a conscientious objector he joined the St John's Ambulance. In 1941 he was conscripted into the Non-Combatant Corps. Vaughan was self-taught...
(Painter)
- Tom Vek
Thomas Timothy Vernon-Kell is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist musician.-Career:He signed to the small label Tummy Touch in 2001, having spent the previous eight years writing and recording in his parents' garage....
(Musician and Graphic Designer)
- Lee Wagstaff
Lee Wagstaff is an English artist who spent four and half years acquiring all-over tattoos with designs based on cross-cultural geometrical symbols drawing on religious influences from his Roman Catholic upbringing and Indian family members.He studied at the Central Saint Martins College of Art...
(Artist)
- Polly Walker
- Early life:Walker was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England. Her first school was Silverdale Preparatory West Acton, London. At 16, Walker graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but had to abandon dancing after a leg injury at the age of 18. She then...
(Actress)
- Matthew Williamson
Matthew Williamson is an English fashion designer. His collections are shown twice a year during New York Fashion Week, and they often have an Indian influence, perhaps related to the time Williamson spent working in India for the clothing store Monsoon....
(Fashion Designer.)
- Lambert Wilson
Lambert Wilson is a French actor. He is recently known for his portrayal of The Merovingian in The Matrix movies.-Biography:...
(Actor)
- Penelope Wilton
Penelope A. Wilton, Lady Holm OBE is an English actress.-Biography:Wilton was born in Scarborough, North Riding of Yorkshire to a former actress mother and a businessman father. She is a niece of actors Bill Travers and Linden Travers and a cousin of the actor Richard Morant...
(Actress)
- Cerith Wyn Evans
Cerith Wyn Evans is a conceptual artist, sculptor and film-maker.After studying at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art Wyn Evans worked as an assistant to Derek Jarman and his early experimental film work in the 1980s often concentrated on dancers including collaborations...
(Artist, Sculptor and Filmmaker)
- Frances de la Tour
Frances de la Tour is an English actress perhaps best known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the British sitcom Rising Damp, and as Madame Olympe Maxime in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire....
(Actress)
- Emily Young
Emily Young is a British sculptor and is considered one of the foremost sculptors in Britain today . She was born in London in 1951 into a family of artists and writers...
(Sculptor)
- Barbara Yung Mei-ling
Barbara Yung Mei-ling was a Chinese television actress in Hong Kong during the early 1980s. She died aged 26, at the peak of her career. Yung was born in Hong Kong to an affluent civil service family as an only child...
(Actress)
- Philip Zec
Philip Zec was a British political cartoonist and editor. Moving from the advertising industry to drawing political cartoons due to his abhorrence of the rise of fascism, Zec complemented the Daily Mirror editorial line with a series of venomous cartoons...
(Political Cartoonist)
- Maximillion Cooper
Maximillion Fife Alexander Cooper is an artist, fashion designer, film director, and skateboarder.- Biography :...
(Fashion designer and entrepreneur)
- Angel Locsin
Angel Locsin , is a television and film actress, commercial model, film producer and fashion designer in the Philippines....
(Actress)
- Ruh al-Alam (Calligraphic)
- Mick Jones
Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones is the former lead guitarist and a vocalist for the British punk rock band The Clash until his dismissal in 1983...
(lead guitar, vocals from the Clash)
- Kerry Hallam
Kerry Hallam is a British impressionist artist who has produced approximately twelve thousand paintings and whose work is included in collections held by Brigitte Bardot and Björn Borg as well as decorating the permanent residence of Monaco's Ambassador to the United States. Hallam was trained in...
(artist and folk musician)
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