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Goldsmiths, University of London, is a constituent college of the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. Based in New Cross
New Cross

New Cross is a place and an Wards of the United Kingdom in the London Borough of Lewisham, 4 miles south east of Charing Cross. It is covered by London postal district SE14....
, 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....
, Goldsmiths specialises in the teaching and research of creative, cultural and cognitive disciplines.

The institution was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of the Livery Company of the City of London. The Company, which has origins in the twelfth century, received a Royal Charter in 1327....
.






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Goldsmiths, University of London, is a constituent college of the University of London
University of London

Based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes....
. Based in New Cross
New Cross

New Cross is a place and an Wards of the United Kingdom in the London Borough of Lewisham, 4 miles south east of Charing Cross. It is covered by London postal district SE14....
, 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....
, Goldsmiths specialises in the teaching and research of creative, cultural and cognitive disciplines.

The institution was founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of the Livery Company of the City of London. The Company, which has origins in the twelfth century, received a Royal Charter in 1327....
. It was acquired by the University of London in 1904 and was renamed Goldsmiths' College. The word 'College' was dropped from its branding in 2006 (however "Goldsmiths' College", with the apostrophe
Apostrophe

The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English it has two main functions: it marks omissions, and it assists in marking the possessives of all nouns and many pronouns....
, remains the institution's formal legal name).

History

In 1891, the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths

The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of the Livery Company of the City of London. The Company, which has origins in the twelfth century, received a Royal Charter in 1327....
 set up the Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute (more commonly referred to simply as the "Goldsmiths' Institute"), dedicated to "the promotion of technical skill, knowledge, health and general well-being among men and women of the industrial, working and artisan classes". The Institute was based in New Cross at the former Royal Naval School
Royal Naval School

The Royal Naval School was an England school that was established in Camberwell, London, in 1833 and then formally constituted by the Royal Naval College Act 1840....
 building. (This building, which was designed by 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....
 John Shaw Jr
John Shaw Jr

John Shaw Junior was an England architect of the 19th century who was complimented as a designer in the "Manner of Christopher Wren". He designed buildings in the classical Jacobean architecture fashion and designed some of London's first semi-detached homes in the area close to Chalk Farm....
, is now known as the Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart

Herbert Richard Hoggart is a United Kingdom academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture....
 Building and remains the main building of the campus today.)

In 1904, the Institute was acquired by the University of London and was re-established as Goldsmiths' College. (The apostrophe was removed in a rebranding in 1993.) Shortly after the acquisition, in 1907, the college added a new arts building, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield
Reginald Blomfield

Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield was a United Kingdom architect, garden designer and author....
, to the back of the main building. During the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 it was decided to evacuate the students and faculty of the college to University College, Nottingham
University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public, co-educational institution of higher learning in the city of Nottingham, England. Nottingham, which has campuses in the United Kingdom and Asia, is the fifth largest university in the UK , and is a member of the Russell Group, Universitas 21, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Europ...
, a decision that proved wise when the main building was struck by an incendiary bomb and gutted in 1940 (the building was finally repaired in 1947). During the 1960s the college experienced a rapid expansion in student numbers, and the main building was expanded and the Lockwood Building, Whitehead Building, Education Building, Warmington Tower and St James's Hall were all built during this period in order to accommodate the new students. The college has also come to acquire some historic buildings in the surrounding area including the former Deptford Town Hall and Laurie Grove Baths buildings. In 1988 Goldsmiths became a full college of the University of London and in 1990 received its Royal Charter
Royal Charter

A royal charter is a charter granted by a Monarch to create institutions or other forms of incorporated bodies . In the United Kingdom legal tradition a royal charter is in the form of letters patent....
. Among its wardens have been Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart

Herbert Richard Hoggart is a United Kingdom academic and public figure, whose career has covered the fields of sociology, English literature and cultural studies, with a special concern for British popular culture....
 and Ben Pimlott
Ben Pimlott

Professor Ben Pimlott was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography....
.

Goldsmiths has been highly-ranked by The Good University Guide as the top London institution for the study of media, communications and visual arts.

Location

The college is situated in New Cross
New Cross

New Cross is a place and an Wards of the United Kingdom in the London Borough of Lewisham, 4 miles south east of Charing Cross. It is covered by London postal district SE14....
, a highly populated area of south-east 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....
 with a considerable art and music scene. The closest underground stations are New Cross and New Cross Gate, however, due to underground upgrade work that started in 2008, the tube stations are closed until Summer 2010. There is still railway service running from New Cross Gate to central London area (e.g. Charing Cross, London Bridge, etc.).

The college's main Richard Hoggart Building was originally designed as a school (opened in 1844) by the architect John Shaw Jr
John Shaw Jr

John Shaw Junior was an England architect of the 19th century who was complimented as a designer in the "Manner of Christopher Wren". He designed buildings in the classical Jacobean architecture fashion and designed some of London's first semi-detached homes in the area close to Chalk Farm....
 (1803-1870). In addition to this the college has built many more modern buildings to develop more of a campus, including the RIBA
Riba

Riba means usury and is forbidden in Islamic economic jurisprudence....
 award-winning Rutherford Building completed in 1997 and the Ben Pimlott Building designed by Will Alsop
Will Alsop

Will Alsop is a United Kingdom architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial Modern architecture buildings, most in the United Kingdom....
 and completed in 2005.

Research and teaching

Goldsmiths is best known for courses and research relating to creativity and culture, and has a reputation for producing visual artists
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
, particularly those collectively known as YBA
Young British Artists

Young British Artists or YBAs is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London....
. This reputation was largely established by the influence of Michael Craig-Martin
Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin RA is a contemporary art conceptual artist and a painter. He is particularly noted for his influence over the Young British Artists, many of whom he taught....
, Jon Thompson
Jon Thompson

Jon Thompson is an artist, curator and academic known for his involvement in the development of the so called YBA artist generation.Thompson was instrumental is changing the way the art school system in the UK worked....
, Nick De Ville and Irit Rogoff as teaching staff. Its Sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
 department has been important in the recent development of the discipline in Britain, with leading sociologists such as Paul Gilroy
Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy is a Professor at the London School of Economics.Born in the East End of London to Guyanese and English parents . He was educated at University College School and obtained his bachelor's degree at Sussex University in 1978....
, Bev Skeggs, Nikolas Rose
Nikolas Rose

Nikolas Rose is a prominent United Kingdom sociologist and social theorist. He is currently acting as James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Director of BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society....
, Don Slater, Celia Lury, Les Back
Les Back

Les Back is a professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London and an author....
, and Jeffrey Alexander, working in the department in recent years. TERU
Teru

Teru is one of the 29 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 4 , Teru is bordered on the south by Aura , on the southwest by Gulina, on the west by Yalo , and on the north and east by the Administrative Zone 2 ....
, the Technology Education Research Unit, has been instrumental in understanding how design & technology works in schools; how to encourage learners towards creative interventions that improve the made world; and how to help teachers to support that process. The Writing Purposefully in Art and Design Network (Writing-PAD) has its main Writing-PAD Centre at Goldsmiths. The network now spans some 50 institutions across the art and design sector with 6 national and 2 International Writing PAD Centres. Goldsmiths is well-known for Cultural Studies
Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic discipline which combines political economy, communication, sociology, social theory, literary theory, Media influence, film theory, cultural anthropology, philosophy, museum studies and art history/art criticism to study culture phenomena in various societies....
. The Media and Communications Department, as well as the Centre for Cultural Studies, house some leading scholars in this field including James Curran, Scott Lash
Scott Lash

Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London.He took a BSc as in Psychology from the University of Michigan, MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and PhD from the London School of Economics ....
, Angela McRobbie
Angela McRobbie

Angela McRobbie is a British cultural theorist and commentator. She combines the study of different dimensions of youth culture with a commentary on development in cultural theory and politics....
, Sara Ahmed, Nick Couldry, John Hutnyk, and David Morley. In anthropology there are people like Stephen Nugent, Sophie Day, Catherine Alexander, Keith Hart
Keith Hart (anthropologist)

Keith Hart is a Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College, University of London. His main research has been on Africa and the African diaspora....
 and David Graeber
David Graeber

David Rolfe Graeber is an United States anthropologist and anarchist. On June 15, 2007, Graeber accepted the offer of a lectureship in the anthropology department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he currently holds the title of Reader in Social Anthropology....
, recently refused tenure at Yale because of his political commitments. The Goldsmiths anthropology department is also well known for its focus on visual anthropology. The realm of continental philosophy is represented with academics such as Howard Caygill, Alexander Düttmann and visiting professor Andrew Benjamin
Andrew Benjamin

Andrew Benjamin is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Critical Theory at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Benjamin first came to critical attention with his writings in continental philosophy, writing articles and editing books on the thinking of Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Julia Kristeva and Jean-Fran...
. Furthermore, in the area of Psychology there is Chris French
Chris French

Christopher C. French, B.A., Ph.D., C.Psychol., F.B.Ps.S., F.R.S.A., is a psychologist and vocal skeptic specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion....
 a vocal sceptic of the paranormal
Paranormal

Paranormal is a general term that describes unusual experiences that lack a scientific explanation, or phenomena alleged to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure....
 who has appeared on television and radio on numerous occasions. Centre for Russian Music, director Alexander Ivashkin, is well known internationally for its outstanding archives (Prokofiev, Schnittke) and unique collections ( Stravinsky, Russian Piano Music first editions).

League tables arising from the 2008 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....
 all place Goldsmiths within the top 35 of research-intensive universities in the UK: 33rd in the Times Higher Education, 34th in The Guardian
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 and 24th in The Independent
The Independent

The Independent is a United Kingdom Compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindy....
. When it comes to the very peak of world-leading research, shown by the top 4* grade, Goldsmiths comes 9th. The Department of Sociology was placed joint first with three other departments, and 80% of activity in the Department of Media and Communications is placed in the two highest bands.

Student life

The College provides, amongst other things, catering facilities, a chaplaincy, a medical centre, a nursery and a gym for student use. Additionally, Goldsmiths Students' Union runs two bars, The Green Room and, above, The Stretch, which links across Dixon Road from the Richard Hoggart Building, hosts numerous entertainment events including karaoke
Karaoke

is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known popular music song which has no lead vocal....
, Jammy B's quiz on tuesdays, the legendary Club Sandwich club night open until between 2 and 3am on Wednesdays and a variety of other nights often featuring indie music. The union also provides student representation and runs both a student magazine (Smiths) and a radio station broadcast online and locally by FM (Wired). All Goldsmiths students are also able to make use of the facilities of the University of London Union
University of London Union

The University of London Union is the university-wide students' union for the University of London. It is the largest students' union in Europe, with over 120,000 students....
.

The university also owns 7 halls of residence which offer accommodation for students:
  • Batavia Mews
  • Chesterman House
  • Dean House
  • Loring Hall
  • Surrey House
  • Surrey House Annexe
  • Raymont Hall


Goldsmiths has also been awarded either 5 or 5* rating in 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, which denotes research of international excellence for Anthropology, Art, Design, English, Media and Communications, Music, and Sociology departments.

Sports, clubs, and traditions

Sports teams and societies are organised by the Goldsmiths Students' Union. The union runs 18 sports clubs, 11 of which compete in either University of London Union
University of London Union

The University of London Union is the university-wide students' union for the University of London. It is the largest students' union in Europe, with over 120,000 students....
 or BUCS leagues. In addition the union runs 35 societies, ranging from political societies (such as the very active Stop-the-War and Socialist Worker Student society) and identity-oriented societies (for instance the Sikh
Sikh

Sikh is the title and name given to an adherent of Sikhism. The term has its origin in the Sanskrit ' "disciple, learner" or ' "instruction"....
 society and the LGBT
LGBT

LGBT is an acronym and initialism referring collectively to Lesbian,Gay, Bisexuality, and Transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term ?LGBT? is an adaptation of the initialism ?LGBT? which itself started replacing the phrase ?gay community? which many within LGBT communities felt did not represent accurately all those to which it...
 society) to interest societies (the Film Society and the on-campus radio station Wired are the two largest Societies at the college) and more.

An amateur opera company based in the college, Opera Gold
Opera gold

Opera Gold is an amateur opera company attached to Goldsmiths College, London, UK. It draws most of its cast from college members past and present....
, draws its cast from college members past and present.

Since 2007 Goldsmiths Student Union took the controversial decision to twin with Al-Quds Open University. The 'Twinning Campaign' has declared support for Palestinians right to education and condemned the supposed Israeli occupation. It also initiated a campaign to lobby the University to officially 'twin' with Al-Quds and offer 2 scholarships to 2 Al-Quds students.

Alumni

See also :Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London.

Film

  • Bhavna Malkani
    Bhavna Malkani

    Bhavna Malkani is a UK film director and music journalist. She won Best London Film Convention award at the Portobello Film Festival in London, during 2006 for the documentary Guilty or Innocent of Using the N Word....
     Documentary Film Director
  • Tom MacRae
    Tom MacRae

    Tom MacRae is a television writer. He is the creator of Sky One?s Mile High. He has also written for Channel 4's No Angels and As If....
     Screenwriter & Author
  • Paul Bush
    Paul Bush

    Paul Bush is a British experimental film director and animator. The son of classical composer Geoffrey Bush, Paul Bush studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London under Michael Craig-Martin....
     Experimental Film Director


Journalism

  • Sarah Sands
    Sarah Sands

    Sarah Sands is a United Kingdom journalist and author....
    , sometime editor of the Sunday Telegraph.
  • Keir Simmons
    Keir Simmons

    Keir Simmons is a British television reporter for ITV News, and has recently covered the Tsunami, the 7/7 bombings and the death of Russian Alexander Litvinenko....
    , reporter, ITV News.
  • Martin Arnold
    Martin Arnold

    Martin Arnold is an experimental filmmaker known for his obsessive reworkings of found footage. He is also a founding member of the Austrian film distributor Sixpack Film....
    , Private Equity Correspondent, the FT
  • Chienwei Wang, book editor and reporter, La Vie Magazine


Literature

  • Niven Govinden
    Niven Govinden

    Niven Govinden is an England novelist. He was born in East Sussex and then educated at Goldsmiths College where he studied film. We Are The New Romantics was published by Bloomsbury in 2004....
    , novelist
  • Hisham Matar
    Hisham Matar

    Hisham Matar is a Libyan author. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 in literature Man Booker Prize.. Matar?s essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times....
    , novelist
  • Gladys Mitchell
    Gladys Mitchell

    Gladys Mitchell was an England author best known for her creation of Mrs. Bradley, the heroine of numerous crime fiction. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Stephen Hockaby and Malcolm Torrie....
    , author
  • Diane Samuels
    Diane Samuels

    Diane Samuels is an author and playwright. She was born in Liverpool in 1960. Samuels studied history at Sidney Sussex College at the University of Cambridge and then studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in drama at Goldsmiths, University of London....
    . author and playwright
  • Julian Turner
    Julian Turner

    Julian Turner is a United Kingdom Poetry and mental health worker. Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, then moved to Cheshire in 1955....
    , poet
  • R J Unstead
    R J Unstead

    Robert John Unstead was a British historian and prolific author of history books, most of which were written for young readers.Unstead went to Dover Grammar School for Boys in Kent, England, from 1926 to 1934 where he was a prefect and house captain, captain of cricket, vice-captain of soccer and in the school rugby union team....
    , author
  • Mike Phillips (illustrator)
    Mike Phillips (illustrator)

    Mike Phillips is an illustrator for children. He was born in London, England. He illustrates the Award-Winning books Horrible Geography by Anita Ganeri and Horrible Histories by Terry Deary He resides in North Devon with his family....
    , author
  • John Harvey (author)
    John Harvey (author)

    John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham....
    , creator of Resnick series of crime novels


Music

  • Rob da Bank
    Rob da Bank

    Robert Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is a United Kingdom disc jockey. He presents a Sunday late-night show, Sunday Best, on BBC Radio 1 from midnight-2am, focused on promoting new left field music....
    , Radio 1 DJ
  • Tunday Akintan
    Tunday Akintan

    Tunday Akintan is a Nigeria multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who currently lives and works in London, England. He is also the pioneer and creator of yorubeat music....
    , creator of yorubeat
    Yorubeat

    Yorubeat is a Fusion of African and western styles. The word yorubeat is derived from the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria. The drum pattern that is played in yorubeat music took its influence from both African and western drum patterns, with the strongest accent on the last beat rather than the first beat....
     music
  • Jack Brymer
    Jack Brymer

    John Alexander Brymer , born in South Shields, was a United Kingdom clarinetist. In 1947 he followed Reginald Kell as principal clarinetist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra....
    , musician
  • John Cale
    John Cale

    John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
    , musician
  • Peredur ap Gwynedd, musician, member of Pendulum
    Pendulum (band)

    Pendulum are an Australian drum and bass group originally from Perth, Western Australia, Australia. In 2003, they relocated to the United Kingdom....
  • Chris Corner
    Chris Corner

    Chris Corner is an English musician and songwriter best known for his work with Electropop band Sneaker Pimps , and his own solo project, which he records under the name IAMX....
    , musician
  • Graham Coxon
    Graham Coxon

    Graham Leslie Coxon is an England singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Painting. He initially came to prominence as the guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur ....
    , musician, former member of Blur
    Blur (band)

    Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
    , guitarist, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, painter
  • Terry Felgate,MD,EMI Records,2003-2008.
  • Patrick Frye III composer, pianist, harpsichordist and historic re-creationist
  • Matt Gresham, stage name Logistics, drum and bass music producer and DJ
  • Simon Hale
    Simon Hale

    Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger and keyboard player in the recording industry....
    , musician, composer, arranger
  • John Illsley
    John Illsley

    John Illsley is a musician who rose to fame as the Bass guitarist of the BRIT award and Grammy Award-studded England rock band, Dire Straits....
    , musician, bassist with Dire Straits
    Dire Straits

    Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
  • 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....
    , musician, writer and performer of comic songs, member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

    The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band are a band created by a group of United Kingdom Art school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, Do Not Adjust Your Set....
    , collaborator with Monty Python
    Monty Python

    Monty Python is a group of six comedians who created Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969....
  • Alex James
    Alex James (musician)

    Steven Alexander James is an England musician, songwriter and journalist best known as the bass guitar player and occasional vocalist of band Blur ....
    , musician, member of Blur, bassist, songwriter, author
  • Patrick Jonathan
    Patrick Jonathan

    Patrick Jonathan is a British composer....
    , composer
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson
    Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Linton Kwesi Johnson is a United Kingdom based dub poetry. He became the second living poetry to be published in the Penguin Books series. His poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican Patois over dub -reggae, usually written in collaboration with renowned British reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell....
    , poet, musician
  • Kanya King
    Kanya king

    Kanya King Order of the British Empire is the founder of the MOBO Awards....
    , founder of MOBO awards
  • Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm McLaren

    Malcolm McLaren is a solo musician, and most famously, former management to the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols....
    , music manager, notably of 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....
  • Brian Molko
    Brian Molko

    Brian Molko is a songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Placebo . In his youth, he was known for his ambiguous sexual orientation....
    , singer with Placebo
    Placebo (band)

    Placebo are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in London in 1994, consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released five studio albums, six Extended plays and twenty-seven singles....
  • indigo Moss
    Indigo Moss

    Indigo Moss were an Alternative rock, rock and roll, Bluegrass music band based in London, England....
    , London based alternative band
  • Luke O'Reilly, guitarist, CITV based pop-rock band Bel's Boys
    Bel's Boys

    Bel's Boys refers to a pop/rock band based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and also to a children's television programme which the band feature in....
  • Pull Tiger Tail
    Pull Tiger Tail

    Pull Tiger Tail are an indie rock band based in London and originating from Stratford-upon-Avon and Edinburgh; they formed in 2006 while attending Goldsmiths College....
    , New Cross based indie band
  • Dave Rowntree
    Dave Rowntree

    David Alexander De Horne Rowntree is an English musician, animator and political activist. He is best-known as the drummer of the alternative rock band Blur ....
    , musician, animator and political activist, member of Blur
  • Damon Albarn
    Damon Albarn

    Damon Albarn, , is a Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter and record producer whose eclectic musical style and observational lyrics have made him one of England's most successful musicians of the past 20 years....
    , musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, rhythm guitarist, keyboard player and principal songwriter of rock band Blur


Performers

  • Emily Booth
    Emily Booth

    Emily Booth may mean:*Emily Booth *Emily Booth , writer, daughter of missionary Joseph Booth*Emily Booth ...
    , actress and TV presenter
  • Julian Clary
    Julian Clary

    Julian Clary is an England comedian and novelist, known for his deliberately stereotypical camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre....
    , comedian
  • Alex Zane
    Alex Zane

    Alex Zane is an England television presenter, stand-up comedian and Disc jockey....
    , TV presenter


Politicians

  • The Rt Hon Tessa Jowell MP
    Tessa Jowell

    Tessa Jowell is a United Kingdom politician. She is the Labour Party Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood .She is also Minister for the Olympics, a role she initially combined with being Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport following the selection of London to host the 2012 Summer Olympics....
    , politician
  • Cathy Jamieson
    Cathy Jamieson

    Cathy Jamieson, has previously been Deputy Leader and Acting Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, former Minister for Justice in the Scottish Executive, and Labour Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament of the Scottish Parliament for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley ....
     MSP
    Member of the Scottish Parliament

    Member of the Scottish Parliament is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament....
    , Scottish politician
  • Kerry McCarthy MP
    Kerry McCarthy

    Kerry McCarthy is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician who was elected Member of Parliament for Bristol East in the United Kingdom general election, 2005....
    , politician
  • The Rt Hon Lord Merlyn-Rees, politician
  • Darren Johnson
    Darren Johnson

    Darren Paul Johnson is an England politician and prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. He represents the Green Party of England and Wales in the London Assembly and is one of six Green Party of England and Wales councillors in the London Borough of Lewisham....
    , Green Party politician


Visual arts

  • Bernd Behr
    Bernd Behr

    Bernd Behr is a London-based, Germany-born artist of Taiwanese people/Germans parentage.Born in Hamburg, Having grown up in Malaysia, went to study BFA programme at the San Jos? State University, California in 1995, completed Bachelor Arts degree in Fine art at Goldsmiths College in 2001....
    , artist
  • Henry Bond
    Henry Bond

    Henry Bond is a photographer and writer. He was born in Newham, East London, England....
    , photographer and writer
  • 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" ....
    , artist and art critic
  • Ian Davenport
    Ian Davenport

    Ian Davenport is an England Painting, and former Turner Prize nominee....
    , artist
  • Grenville Davey
    Grenville Davey

    Grenville Davey is an England sculpture.He is a professor of the University of East London .Born in Cornwall, Davey first studied art in Exeter, England before going to Goldsmiths College in London in 1985 where he took a diploma in fine art....
    , artist
  • Angus Fairhurst
    Angus Fairhurst

    Angus Fairhurst was an England artist working in installation, photography and video. He was one of the Young British Artists ....
    , artist
  • James Robert Ford
    James Robert Ford

    James R Ford is a contemporary British mixed media and installation artist.Ford's projects include House Gymnastics , Feecal the little chocolate starfish , General Carbuncle and Six Degrees of Smoking ....
    , artist
  • Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
    Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

    Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard are British people artists who create re-enactments of cultural and art historical events. Forsyth was born in Manchester in 1973, Pollard in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972....
    , artists
  • Lucian Freud
    Lucian Freud

    Lucian Michael Freud, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour is a British Painting of Germany origin....
    , artist
  • Anya Gallaccio
    Anya Gallaccio

    Anya Gallaccio is a Scotland artist, who often works with organic matter. She was a nominee in the 2003 Turner Prize....
    , artist
  • Antony Gormley
    Antony Gormley

    Antony Gormley Officer of the Order of the British Empire Royal Academician is an England sculpture. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public art in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool....
    , artist
  • Pete Hoida
    Pete Hoida

    Pete Hoida was born in Birkenhead in 1944. He ceased writing circa 1985, after which he dedicated his time wholly to painting....
    , artist
  • Damien Hirst
    Damien Hirst

    Damien Steven Hirst is an England artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" . Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned....
    , artist
  • Gary Hume
    Gary Hume

    Gary Hume is an England artist and a leading Young British Artists ....
    , artist
  • Michael Landy
    Michael Landy

    Michael Landy is an England artist, one of the so-called Young British Artists . He is best known for the performance art-cum-Installation art, Break Down , in which he destroyed all of his possessions....
    , artist
  • Peter Lowe
    Peter Lowe

    Peter Lowe is a British people Constructivism . He was born in London, England at Victoria Park, Hackney. He studied at Goldsmiths' College 1954-60 where he was taught by Mary Martin and Kenneth Martin....
    , artist
  • Sarah Lucas
    Sarah Lucas

    Sarah Lucas is a British artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour, and include photography, collage and Found art....
    , artist
  • Mark McGowan, performance artist
  • Steve McQueen
    Steve McQueen (artist)

    Steve McQueen is an England artist. He is best known for his films. He is a winner of the Turner Prize and BAFTA....
    , artist
  • Cathy de Monchaux
    Cathy de Monchaux

    Cathy de Monchaux is a United Kingdom sculpture.de Monchaux was born in London. She studied first at the Camberwell School of Art , and later at Goldsmiths College in London ....
    , artist
  • Ian Monroe
    Ian Monroe

    Ian Monroe is an artist based in London.Monroe was born in Cooperstown, New York and spent his childhood in Reston, Virginia, a planned community 25 miles outside of Washington, D.C.....
    , artist
  • Gareth Morgan
    Gareth Morgan (painter)

    Gareth Morgan is a United Kingdom artist known for his Acrylic paint on Perspex paintings of a robotic man. He is a Fine Arts graduate of Goldsmiths College in London, and is based in the United Kingdom....
    , artist
  • Matt O'dell
    Matt O'dell

    Matt O'dell is a British artist. Born in Bedford, and currently living in London, he graduated from the MA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College in 2002....
    , artist
  • Julian Opie
    Julian Opie

    Julian Opie is a leading contemporary England artist, who uses computerised imagery. He is a former trustee of the Tate Gallery....
    , artist
  • Stephen Park
    Stephen Park

    Stephen Park is a British artist and comic performer. He was briefly associated with the Young British Artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and included in the seminal Freeze show....
    , artist
  • Richard Patterson, painter
  • Simon Patterson, artist
  • Cyril Edward Power, artist and architect
  • Mary Quant
    Mary Quant

    Mary Quant Order of the British Empire Chartered Society of Designers is a British fashion designer, one of the many designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants....
    , fashion designer
  • Alan Rankle
    Alan Rankle

    Alan Rankle is a United Kingdom artist, born in Oldham, England in 1952. He studied at RochdaleSchool of Art , and Goldsmiths' College . He is one of the leading artists of his generation to explore social and environmental issues of the day through Landscape Art....
    , artist
  • Bridget Riley
    Bridget Riley

    Bridget Louise Riley Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire is an England Painting who is one of the foremost proponents of op art....
    , artist
  • Yinka Shonibare
    Yinka Shonibare

    Yinka Shonibare, Order of the British Empire is a contemporary artist living in Britain....
    , artist
  • Anj Smith
    Anj Smith

    Anj Smith is an artist.Born in Kent in the UK, Smith studied in England at Slade School of Fine Art and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London....
    , artist
  • Sam Taylor-Wood
    Sam Taylor-Wood

    Sam Taylor-Wood is an England conceptual artist. She has been identified as a member of the young British Artist group....
    , artist
  • Mark Wallinger
    Mark Wallinger

    Mark Wallinger is a United Kingdom artist, best known for his sculpture for the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, Ecce Homo , and State Britain , a recreation at Tate Britain of Brian Haw's protest display outside Palace of Westminster....
    , artist
  • Gillian Wearing
    Gillian Wearing

    Gillian Wearing is an England conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and a winner of the Turner Prize....
    , artist
  • Vivienne Westwood
    Vivienne Westwood

    Dame Vivienne Westwood, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry is a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern Punk fashion and New Wave music fashions into the mainstream....
    , designer
  • Mary White
    Mary White (ceramicist and calligrapher)

    Mary White, n?e Rollinson is a ceramic artist and calligraphy.She was born in 1926 in Croesyceiliog, WalesFrom 1949-1950 she studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and in 1951 she married painter Charles White ....
    , ceramicist and calligrapher
  • Catherine Yass
    Catherine Yass

    Catherine Yass is an England artist.Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London and in her early years lived in Hampstead. She later studied at the Slade School of Art, London and then at Hochschule der K?nste, Berlin ....
    , artist
  • Walter Landor
    Walter Landor

    Walter Landor born Walter Landauer was a brand design legend and the founder of Landor Associates. He is a pioneer in the field of branding and consumer research....
    , pioneer in branding
  • Liam Gillick
    Liam Gillick

    Liam Gillick is a British artist living and working in New York and London.Often associated with the Young British Artists movement and the theory of Relational Aesthetics....
    , artist


See also

  • Education in London
    Education in London

    London is a leading global educational centre, having one of the largest populations of overseas students of any city in the world....
  • 1994 Group
    1994 Group

    The 1994 Group is a coalition of "smaller research-intensive university" in the United Kingdom founded in 1994 to defend their interests following the creation of the Russell Group by larger research-intensive universities earlier that year....


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