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The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in 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....
, England
England

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, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate art
Art

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

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 institution, offering the degrees of M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts is a Postgraduate education academic degree master degree awarded by University in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English language, Fine Arts, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a combination of the two....
, M.Phil.
Master of Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy is a postgraduate research degree requiring the completion of a thesis. It is a lesser degree than the Doctor of Philosophy or Engineering Doctorate , greater than the Bachelor of Philosophy , and is of greater scope than the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees....
 and PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
.

The College is housed in a number of sites in South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
 and Battersea
Battersea

Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is an inner-city district located 2.9 miles south west of Charing Cross. It has a population of 75,651 people ....
, including the Darwin Building at Kensington Gore
Kensington Gore

Kensington Gore is a street in central London, England, the same name having been formerly used for the piece of land on which it stands. It runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, continuing as Kensington Road to both the east and west....
, and Stevens Building nearby in Jay Mews.






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The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in 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....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate art
Art

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

Design is used both as a noun and a verb. The term is often tied to the various applied arts and engineering . As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of originating and planning for a product, structure, system, or component with intention....
 institution, offering the degrees of M.A.
Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts is a Postgraduate education academic degree master degree awarded by University in many countries. The degree is typically studied for in English language, Fine Arts, History, Humanities, Philosophy, Social Sciences or Theology and can be either fully-taught, research-based, or a combination of the two....
, M.Phil.
Master of Philosophy

The Master of Philosophy is a postgraduate research degree requiring the completion of a thesis. It is a lesser degree than the Doctor of Philosophy or Engineering Doctorate , greater than the Bachelor of Philosophy , and is of greater scope than the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees....
 and PhD
Doctor of Philosophy

Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph.D. or PhD for the Latin , meaning "teacher of philosophy", is an postgraduate academic degree awarded by University....
.

The College is housed in a number of sites in South Kensington
South Kensington

South Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London. It is a built-up area located 2.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....
 and Battersea
Battersea

Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is an inner-city district located 2.9 miles south west of Charing Cross. It has a population of 75,651 people ....
, including the Darwin Building at Kensington Gore
Kensington Gore

Kensington Gore is a street in central London, England, the same name having been formerly used for the piece of land on which it stands. It runs along the south side of Hyde Park, London, continuing as Kensington Road to both the east and west....
, and Stevens Building nearby in Jay Mews. The Battersea
Battersea

Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is an inner-city district located 2.9 miles south west of Charing Cross. It has a population of 75,651 people ....
 campus includes the Sculpture School at Howie Street.

History

The Royal College of Art was founded in 1837, and was known as the Government School of Design. It became the National Art Training School in 1853, with the Female School of Art in separate buildings, and in 1896 received the name Royal College of Art. It was often informally referred to as the South Kensington Schools during the 19th century. See Richard Burchett
Richard Burchett

Richard Burchett was a British artist and educator on the fringes of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who was for over twenty years the Headmaster of what later became the Royal College of Art....
, an early Headmaster, for more details on this period. After 130 years in operation, the RCA was granted 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....
 in 1967, which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees.

Its Royal Charter specifies that the objects of the College are "to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce".

The average age of its postgraduate students, studying at Master’s and Doctoral levels, is twenty-six. Some come to the Royal College of Art direct from their undergraduate courses, others later in their careers as artists. According to the latest statistics on all graduate destinations from the Royal College of Art between 1992 and 1996, from a total cohort of over 300 graduates an average of 90+% gained work in directly related employment and at the right level. The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking fine art
Fine art

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

Applied art refers to the application of design and aesthetics to objects of function and everyday use. Whereas fine arts serve as intellectual stimulation to the viewer or academic sensibilities, the applied arts incorporate design and creative ideals to objects of utility, such as a cup, magazine or decorative park bench....
, design, communication design
Communication design

Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printing, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people....
 and humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 courses.

The Royal College of Art played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s, with students including Barbara Hepworth
Barbara Hepworth

Dame Barbara Hepworth Order of the British Empire was a major United Kingdom Sculpture and artist of the twentieth century. She was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore....
 and Henry Moore
Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore Order of Merit Companion of Honour Federation of British Artists was an English artist and Sculpture. He is best known for his abstract art monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art....
, and in the development of Pop Art
Pop art

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates...
 in the 1960s with students including Peter Blake
Peter Blake (artist)

'Sir Peter Thomas Blake', Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry, is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt....
 and David Hockney
David Hockney

David Hockney, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Academician, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, although he also maintains a base in London....
.

The college also has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of automotive design
Automotive design

Automotive design is the profession involved in the development of the appearance, and to some extent the ergonomics, of motor vehicles or more specifically road vehicles....
, photography
Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
, industrial design
Industrial design

Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of mass-produced Product may be improved for marketability and Manufacturing....
, communication design
Communication design

Communication design is a mixed discipline between design and information-development which is concerned with how media intermission such as printing, crafted, electronic media or presentations communicate with people....
 and interior design
Interior design

Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
, fashion
Fashion

Fashion refers to the styles and customs prevalent at a given time. In its most common usage, "fashion" exemplifies the appearances of clothing, but the term encompasses more....
, ceramics and silversmithing. Degrees in the History of Design and Conservation are offered in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
, while an MA in Industrial Design Engineering is offered jointly with Imperial College, both close to the college.

Also close by are the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
, Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society is a United Kingdom learned society founded in 1830 with the name Geographical Society of London for the advancement of geographical sciences, under the patronage of William IV of the United Kingdom....
, Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music is a college or university school of music located in the South Kensington district of London, England, and historically one of the most influential music institutions in Europe....
 and Hyde Park
Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine ....
.

Notable alumni


19th century

  • HRH The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta
    Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

    The Princess Louise was a member of the British Royal Family, the sixth child and fourth daughter of Victoria of the United Kingdom and her husband, Albert, Prince Consort....
    , Duchess of Argyll
  • Sir George Clausen
    George Clausen

    Sir George Clausen RA , was an English people artist.Elected an ARA in 1895 and a RA in 1906, he was knighted in 1927.Born in London, the son of a decorative artist, from 1867-1873 he attended the design classes at the Royal College of Art with great success....
    , painter
  • Christopher Dresser
    Christopher Dresser

    Christopher Dresser was a designer and writer on design, now widely known as Britain?s first independent industrial designer and as a contributor to the Anglo-Japanese style and Arts and Crafts movement movements in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
    , designer
  • Conrad Dressler
    Conrad Dressler

    Conrad Dressler was an England sculptor and potter.He was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. He was influenced by the Arts & Crafts Movement....
    , sculptor and potter
  • Sir Luke Fildes
    Luke Fildes

    Sir Samuel Luke Fildes Royal Academy was an England painter and illustrator born at Liverpool and trained in the Royal College of Art and Royal Academy schools....
    , painter
  • Kate Greenaway
    Kate Greenaway

    Kate Greenaway was a children's book illustrator and writer. Her first book, Under The Window , a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses concerning children who endlessly gathered posies, untouched by the Industrial Revolution, was a best-seller....
    , illustrator
  • William Harbutt
    William Harbutt

    William Harbutt was the inventor of Plasticine.Born in North Shields, England, Harbutt studied at the Royal College of Art in London, and eventually became an associate of the Royal College of Art....
    , sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
    Plasticine

    Plasticine, a brand of modelling clay, is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and fatty acids. The name is a registered trademark of Flair Leisure Products plc....
  • Hubert von Herkomer
    Hubert von Herkomer

    Sir Hubert von Herkomer , United Kingdom Painting, also a film-director and composer, was born at Waal, in Bavaria. Lorenz Herkomer, his father and a wood-carver of great ability, left Bavaria in 1851 with his wife and child for the United States, settling in Cleveland, Ohio, for a while, but returned to Europe and settled in Southampton i...
     painter
  • Gertrude Jekyll
    Gertrude Jekyll

    Gertrude Jekyll , was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life , The Garden and other magazines....
    , garden designer
  • Edwin Lutyens
    Edwin Lutyens

    Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, Order of Merit , Order of the Indian Empire, Royal Academy, Royal Institute of British Architects, LLD was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era....
    , architect
  • Elizabeth Thompson
    Elizabeth Thompson

    Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler was a United Kingdom Painting, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition....
     (Lady Butler), painter
  • Maxwell Ayrton
    Maxwell Ayrton

    Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton Royal Institute of British Architects , known as Maxwell Ayrton, was a Scotland architect. He spent most of his adult life working in London and designed houses, public buildings, and bridges....
    , architect


20th century

  • M.R. Acharekar
    M.R. Acharekar

    Murlidhar Ramachandra Acharekar was an Indian artist, film art director in Hindi cinema, who won Filmfare Best Art Direction Award three times, 1958 for Pardesi , 1960 for Kaagaz Ke Phool, in 1962 for Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai ...
    , painter
  • Victor Ambrus
    Victor Ambrus

    Victor Ambrus , is an illustrator best known for his regular appearances on the Channel 4 archaeology television series Time Team, where he visualises how the sites being excavated may have once looked....
    , illustrator
  • Frank Auerbach
    Frank Auerbach

    Frank Helmut Auerbach is a Germany-born United Kingdom Painting. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town....
    , painter
  • Mathias Augustyniak, Graphic designer and Art director, founder of M/M (Paris)
    M/M Paris

    M/M is an art and design partnership consisting of Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag , established in Paris in 1992.M/M are best known for their art direction and collaborations with musicians ; fashion designers ; magazines ; contemporary artists .....
  • Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
    Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)

    Christopher Bailey is an English fashion designer. He joined Burberry in March 2001. In his role as Creative Director, Christopher is responsible for the design of all Burberry collections and product lines including Burberry Prorsum, Burberry London, Thomas Burberry and all Burberry licensed products globally....
    , Creative Director for Burberry
    Burberry

    Burberry is a British luxury fashion house, manufacturing clothing and fashion accessory. Its distinctive tartan pattern has become one of its most widely copied trademarks....
  • Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Furniture and Industrial Designers, founders of BarberOsgerby
    BarberOsgerby

    BarberOsgerby is a Furniture and Industrial Design studio established in 1996 by British designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby....
  • Tom Barker
    Tom Barker

    Tom Barker is a Great Britain designer and Academia. He is a Professor of Architecture, Design and Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney....
    , technologist, design engineer, a professor at RCA.
  • Jonathan Barnbrook
    Jonathan Barnbrook

    Jonathan Barnbrook is a Great Britain graphic designer and typographer. Born in Luton in 1966, Barnbrook trained at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and at the Royal College of Art ....
    , typographer and graphic designer, one of the 'Young British Artists
    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....
    '
  • Nina Beier
    Nina Beier

    Nina Beier, Danish artist based in London, was born in Denmark. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2004. During her studies at RCA she took part in the making of the book JanFamily 'Plans for other days' and started collaborating with Marie Lund as 'Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund'....
    , artist
  • John Bridgeman (sculptor)
    John Bridgeman (sculptor)

    Arthur John Bridgeman Royal College of Art, Royal British Society of Sculptors, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists was an England sculptor....
    , winner of the Otto Beit
    Otto Beit

    Sir Otto John Beit, 1st Baronet, Order of St Michael and St George, Fellow of the Royal Society was a Germany-born United Kingdom financier, philanthropist and art connoisseur....
     Medal
  • Cressida Bell
    Cressida Bell

    Cressida Bell is an English artist and designer, specializing in textiles and interiors.She is the daughter of critic, author and artist Quentin Bell and Anne Olivier Bell....
    , textile designer
  • Peter Blake
    Peter Blake (artist)

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

    Quentin Saxby Blake, Order of the British Empire, Chartered Society of Designers, Royal Designers for Industry, is an United Kingdom cartoonist, illustrator and children's literature, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl....
    , cartoonist, author and illustrator of Roald Dahl
    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl was a United Kingdom novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian people parents. After service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, In which he became a flying ace, he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both Children's literature and adults, and became one of the world's bes...
    's books
  • Victor Burgin
    Victor Burgin

    Victor Burgin is an artist and a writer.Burgin was born in Sheffield in England. He studied art at the Royal College of Art, in London, from 1962 to 1965 before going to the United States to study at Yale University ....
    , 1986 Turner Prize nominee
  • Ian Callum
    Ian Callum

    Ian Callum is a United Kingdom car designer who currently serves as Design Director for Jaguar and is older brother to fellow car designer Moray Callum....
    , Design Director (Jaguar cars)
  • Moray Callum
    Moray Callum

    Moray Callum is an automobile designer from Scotland, currently design director for Ford Motor Company's North American brands' passenger cars....
    , automotive designer (Ford)
  • Gillian Carnegie
    Gillian Carnegie

    Gillian Carnegie is an England artist.Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art.Nominated to the 2005 Turner Prize shortlist at Londons Tate Britain art gallery, her apparently traditional use of the oil paint medium prompted the Daily Telegraph headline: 'Turner Prize shocker: the favourite is a...
    , 2005 Turner Prize nominee
  • Benedict Carpenter
    Benedict Carpenter

    Benedict Carpenter is a United Kingdom sculptor and artist based in the West Midlands .He works in traditional materials such as bronze, as well as more modern substances such as polyurethane foam, bread, rubber and spray paint....
    , 2001 Jerwood Sculpture Prize winner
  • Patrick Caulfield
    Patrick Caulfield

    Patrick Caulfield, Order of the British Empire was an England Painting and printmaker known for his pop art canvases....
    , 1987 Turner Prize nominee
  • Betty Churcher
    Betty Churcher

    Betty Ann Churcher, Order of Australia is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life....
    , Director of the National Gallery of Australia
    National Gallery of Australia

    The National Gallery of Australia is the premier Art museum in Australia, holding over 120,000 works of art. It was established in 1967 by the Government of Australia as a national public art gallery....
     from 1990 to 1997
  • John Clappison
    John Clappison

    William John Clappison is an England Ceramic and Glass designerWhen the family moved to Hornsea and John?s father started to support Hornsea Pottery, the founders of the Pottery, Colin and Desmond Rawson, saw great potential in John Clappison....
    , ceramic and glass designer
  • Ossie Clark
    Ossie Clark

    Raymond "Ossie" Clark was an England fashion designer who was a major figure in the Swinging Sixties scene in London and the fashion industry in that era....
    , fashion designer
  • Clarice Cliff
    Clarice Cliff

    Clarice Cliff was an English ceramic industrial artist active from 1922 to 1963.Cliff was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England....
    , ceramic designer, modeller and sculptor
  • Ben Copperwheat
    Ben Copperwheat

    Ben Copperwheat is a United Kingdom Print designer/artist based in New York City.He was born in Luton, United Kingdom, and grew up in rural Bedfordshire....
     Print designer/artist
  • Jack Coutu
    Jack Coutu

    Jack Coutu Associate of the Royal Engravers Alumnus of the Royal College of Art is an England printmaker, sculptor, etcher, engraver, carver, watercolourist and teacher....
    , printmaker and sculptor
  • Alki David
    Alki David

    Alki David is an actor, Screenwriter and Film director as well as making up one half of London production company '111 Pictures'. With an estimated fortune of some ?1.5 billion, he is joint-47th on the Sunday Times Rich List....
    , Writer, Actor, Director, Philanthropist, Explorer and Businessman.
  • Jake and Dinos Chapman
    Jake and Dinos Chapman

    Jake Chapman and Dinos Chapman are brothers and England conceptual artists, known as the Chapman Brothers, who work almost exclusively in collaboration with each other....
    , 2003 Turner Prize nominees
  • Benjamin Clemens
    Benjamin Clemens

    Benjamin Clemens was a 20th-century sculptor based in London. He was educated at Lonsbury College before going on to study art at the North London school of Art and the Royal College of Art....
    , sculptor
  • Susie Cooper
    Susie Cooper

    Susie Cooper was a prolific England ceramic designer working in the Stoke-on-Trent pottery industries from the 1920s to the 1980s....
    , ceramic designer
  • Tony Cragg
    Tony Cragg

    Tony Cragg is a United Kingdom-born sculpture.Cragg was born in Liverpool; following a period of work as a laboratory technician he first studied art on the foundation course at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design, Cheltenham and then at the Wimbledon School of Art 1969-1973....
    , 1988 Turner Prize winner
  • Robin Day
    Robin Day

    Sir Robin Day, Order of the British Empire was a British political broadcaster and commentator. His obituary in The Guardian states that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation....
    , designer
  • Richard Deacon, 1987 Turner Prize winner
  • Roger Dean, artist
  • Len Deighton
    Len Deighton

    Leonard Cyril Deighton is a United Kingdom historian, cookery expert and novelist, perhaps most famous for his spy novel The IPCRESS File, which was made into a The Ipcress File starring Michael Caine....
    , historian and author
  • Ian Dury
    Ian Dury

    Ian Robins Dury was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk rock and New Wave music era of rock music....
    , musician, singer
  • James Dyson
    James Dyson

    Sir James Dyson , is an England industrial designer.He is best known as the inventor of the DC01 bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation....
    , vacuum cleaner
    Vacuum cleaner

    A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors.Most homes with carpeted floors in developed countries possess a vacuum cleaner for cleaning....
     designer
  • Benoit Pierre Emery
    Benoit Pierre Emery

    Benoit Pierre Emery is a French people art director and a fashion designer based in Paris, France....
    , silk scarf fashion designer
  • Tracey Emin
    Tracey Emin

    Tracey Emin Royal Academy#Membership is an England artist of Turkish Cypriots origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs .In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963?1995, a tent appliqu?d with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition....
    , 1999 Turner Prize nominee
  • Cathie Felstead
    Cathie Felstead

    Cathie Felstead, born 1954 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, is an England illustrator. Felstead attended Chelsea School of Art, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design....
    , illustrator
  • Mary Gillick
    Mary Gillick

    Mary Gillick was a sculptor best known for her effigy of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom used on coinage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from 1953 to 1967....
    , sculptor
  • James Henry Govier
    James Henry Govier

    James Henry Govier was an England painter born at Oakley, Buckinghamshire.He was the only son of Henry Govier and Mary Ann Measey. In 1914 the family moved to the small town of Gorseinon on the Gower coast in South Wales, where James was educated at the local school....
     painter etcher and engraver.[R.C.A. etching Demonstrator]
  • Raymond Hawkey
    Raymond Hawkey

    Raymond Hawkey born 1930 in Portsmouth is an England graphic designer and author based in London....
    , designer and author
  • Thomas Heatherwick
    Thomas Heatherwick

    Thomas Heatherwick is an England designer, often mislabelled as a sculpture or artist. He is known for innovative use of engineering and materials in public monuments....
    , designer and sculptor
  • Barbara Hepworth
    Barbara Hepworth

    Dame Barbara Hepworth Order of the British Empire was a major United Kingdom Sculpture and artist of the twentieth century. She was a contemporary and friend of Henry Moore....
    , sculptor
  • Hilda Hewlett
    Hilda Hewlett

    Hilda Beatrice Hewlett was the first United Kingdom aviator to earn a pilot's licence. She was also a successful early aviation entrepreneur. She created and ran the first flying school in the United Kingdom....
    , pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur
  • David Hockney
    David Hockney

    David Hockney, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Academician, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, based in Yorkshire, United Kingdom, although he also maintains a base in London....
    , painter
  • Albert Houthuesen
    Albert Houthuesen

    Albert Houthuesen was a Netherlands-born UK artist. He was born in Amsterdam, but came to London in 1912, following the death of his father. During the 1920s, he studied at the Royal College of Art with Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Edward Burra....
    , artist
  • Peter Horbury
    Peter Horbury

    Peter Horbury is a British car designer currently in charge of all design for the North American Ford Motor Company, Lincoln , and Mercury . He is probably best known for his design work for Volvo Cars where he was Design Director during 1991 to 2002....
    , automotive designer (Ford)
  • Laurence Housman
    Laurence Housman

    Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator.The younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman, Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire....
    , playwright
  • Christian Hrabalek
    Christian Hrabalek

    Christian Hrabalek is an Austrian automotive designer and automotive strategy consultant and currently director of Fenomenon Ltd.Hrabalek was born in Vienna, Austria and obtained three university degrees in International Business , Marketing and Vehicle Design ....
    , automotive designer (Fenomenon)
  • R. B. Kitaj
    R. B. Kitaj

    Ronald Brooks Kitaj was an United States-born artist who spent much of his life in England....
    , artist
  • David Mach
    David Mach

    David Mach is a Scotland sculpture and installation artist.Mach's artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced found art objects....
    , 1988 Turner Prize nominee
  • Jeremy Marre
    Jeremy Marre

    Jeremy Marre is a television director, writer and producer who founded Harcourt Films and has worked extensively around the world. Many of his films are on musical subjects....
    , film director
  • Kenneth Martin
    Kenneth Martin

    Kenneth Martin was an England painter and sculptor who along with his wife Mary Martin and Victor Pasmore was a leading figure in the revival of Constructivism in Britain and America in the 1940s....
    , sculptor
  • Mary Martin
    Mary Martin

    Mary Virginia Martin was an Tony Award and Emmy Award winning actress. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music....
    , sculptor
  • Simon Martin, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar
  • David Mellor
    David Mellor (cutler)

    David Mellor, Order of the British Empire, Chartered Society of Designers, Royal Designers for Industry, is one of the best known designers in Britain....
    , cutler and industrial designer
  • Sam Messenger
    Sam Messenger

    Sam Messenger is an artist living and working in London. He received his Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art, London.He often works in pen and ink on paper....
    , artist
  • John W Mills, sculptor
  • Henry Moore
    Henry Moore

    Henry Spencer Moore Order of Merit Companion of Honour Federation of British Artists was an English artist and Sculpture. He is best known for his abstract art monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as Public art....
    , sculptor
  • Malcolm Morley
    Malcolm Morley

    Malcolm Morley is an England artist now living in the United States.Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled childhood, and did not discover art until serving a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison....
    , 1984 Turner Prize winner
  • Jasper Morrison
    Jasper Morrison

    Jasper Morrison is an England product and furniture designer.Morrison was born in London, England but brought up in New York, United States. He was educated at Bryanston School....
    , designer
  • Chris Ofili
    Chris Ofili

    Chris Ofili is a British Painting noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been a source of controversy....
    , 1998 Turner Prize winner
  • Marilene Oliver
    Marilene Oliver

    Marilene Oliver is a United Kingdom-based printmaker and sculptor.Marilene Oliver gained a BA in Fine Art Printmaking and Photomedia at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art , both in London....
    , sculptor
  • M. C. Oliver
    M. C. Oliver

    Mervyn C. Oliver MBE was a twentieth century British calligrapher and silversmith taught by Edward Johnston and an early Craft Member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators ....
    , calligrapher
  • Vaughan Oliver
    Vaughan Oliver

    Vaughan Oliver is a graphic designer based in Wandsworth, South West London.Oliver is most noted for his work with graphic design studios 23 Envelope and v23....
    , designer, graphic designer
  • Christopher Orr
    Christopher Orr

    Christopher Orr may refer to:* Chris Orr , English artist* Christopher Orr , Scottish painter* Christopher Orr , American actor...
    , artist
  • Brothers Quay
    Brothers Quay

    Stephen and Timothy Quay , are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animation....
    , stop-motion animators
  • Ceri Richards
    Ceri Richards

    Ceri Geraldus Richards , was a Wales painter.Richards was born the mining village of Dunvant, near Swansea. After studying drawing in his home town, he attended a summer school at Gregynog, where he became interested in modern art and drawn to the work of Claude Monet....
    , painter
  • 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
  • Zandra Rhodes
    Zandra Rhodes

    Zandra Rhodes, Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry, is a British fashion designer.Zandra Rhodes was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter in a Paris fashion house and a teacher at Medway College of Art....
    , fashion designer
  • Sir Ridley Scott
    Ridley Scott

    Sir Ridley Scott is a United Kingdom Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts winning film director and film producer known for his stylish visuals and an obsession for detail....
    , film director (brother of Tony)
  • Tony Scott
    Tony Scott

    Anthony D. L. "Tony" Scott is an England film director. His films include Top Gun , Days of Thunder, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Crimson Tide , Enemy of the State and Spy Game....
    , film director (brother of Ridley)
  • Uday Shankar
    Uday Shankar

    Uday Shankar was a world renowned Indian dance and choreographer from India.Born in Udaipur, Rajasthan to a Bengali people family with origins in Narail District , he was trained in the art in Bombay....
    , choreographer
  • Graham Smith
    Graham Smith (photographer)

    Graham Smith is a photographer from Middlesbrough, England, who was particularly active in photographing Middlesbrough and the northeast of England in the 1970s and 1980s....
    , photographer
  • Martin Smith
    Martin Smith (designer)

    Martin Smith is an automobile designer, currently Executive Design Director for Ford Motor Company....
    , automotive designer (Ford)
  • Peter Stevens, automotive designer
  • Linda Sutton
    Linda Sutton

    Linda Sutton is a United Kingdom Painting. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.She studied at Winchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1974....
     (painter), RCA 100' mural prize 1972
  • Storm Thorgerson
    Storm Thorgerson

    Storm Thorgerson is an English graphic designer....
    , photographer and designer
  • John Tunnard
    John Tunnard

    John Samuel Tunnard was an England surrealism and modernism designer and Painting. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard....
     artist
  • Charles Tunnicliffe
    Charles Tunnicliffe

    Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe was an internationally renowned naturalistic painter of Great Britain birds and other wildlife. He spent most of his working life on the isle of Anglesey....
    , painter
  • Sidney Tushingham
    Sidney Tushingham

    Sidney Tushingham was a Painting and etcher who specialised in rustic scenes of villages and small town life.He was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England, where he started his artistic career as a china painter....
    , painter and etcher
  • Lee Wagstaff
    Lee Wagstaff

    Lee Wagstaff is an England artist who spent four and half years acquiring all-over tattoos with designs based on cross-cultural geometrical symbols drawing on Religious symbolism influences from his Roman Catholic upbringing and Indian family members....
    , photographer performance artist
  • Richard Wentworth
    Richard Wentworth

    Richard Wentworth is a British Artist, curator and teacher currently based at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.Wentworth studied at Hornsey College of Art in North London from 1965 and then at the Royal College of Art where he was a contemporary of Bill Woodrow and Tony Cragg....
    , sculptor
  • Alison Wilding
    Alison Wilding

    Alison Wilding is an England sculpture.Born in Blackburn in Lancashire, Wilding studied at the Nottingham College of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in Chislehurst and, from 1970 to 1973, the Royal College of Art in London....
    , 1992 Turner Prize nominee
  • Christopher Williams (Welsh Artist 1873-1934)
  • Joash Woodrow
    Joash Woodrow

    Joash Woodrow was a recluse England artist.Woodrow was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, of Poland-Jewish parents, and was one of eight siblings....
    , painter
  • Jon Wozencroft
    Jon Wozencroft

    Jon Wozencroft is a graphic designer, author and instructor.Wozencroft founded Touch Music, an independent multimedia publishing company. Between 1982 and 1986 Touch "released around 15 products, concentrating on producing interactive, audiovisual magazines such as Feature Mist and Travel, both of which sold over 5000 copies without any ad...
    , graphic designer and cofounder of Touch Music
    Touch Music

    Touch is a United Kingdom audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. It is the main arm of the London-based multimedia publishing company Touch, established in 1982....
  • Carey Young
    Carey Young

    Carey Young is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and Installation art into her works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial....
    , 2003 Beck's Futures
    Beck's Futures

    Beck's Futures was a United Kingdom art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists....
     nominee
  • Sue Coe
    Sue Coe

    Sue Coe is an England artist and illustrator working primarily in drawing and printmaking, often in the form of illustrated books and comics. She grew up close to a slaughterhouse and developed a passion to stop cruelty to animals....
     political artist
  • David Tremlett
    David Tremlett

    David Tremlett is a Cornish people sculpture, installation artist and photography. He currently lives and works in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, Great Britain....
    , Artist, Turner Prize nominee 1992
  • Andrea Wulf
    Andrea Wulf

    Andrea Wulf is an acclaimed biographer. She is the author of The Brother Gardeners, published in April 2008. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize....
     History of Design 1999


21st century

  • Gillian Carnegie
    Gillian Carnegie

    Gillian Carnegie is an England artist.Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art.Nominated to the 2005 Turner Prize shortlist at Londons Tate Britain art gallery, her apparently traditional use of the oil paint medium prompted the Daily Telegraph headline: 'Turner Prize shocker: the favourite is a...
  • Idris Khan
    Idris Khan

    Idris Khan is an artist based in London.His work comprises digital photographs that superimpose iconic text or image sets into a single frame , or every Bernd and Hilla Becher spherical Gasometer....
  • Liz Neal
    Liz Neal

    Liz Neal is an artist based in London.Neal grew up in North Wales. She makes paintings and installations which reference sexual, consumer and fantasy imagery....
  • Suzie Templeton
    Suzie Templeton

    Suzie Templeton is an Academy Award-winning director, animator and writer of stop motion animation films. She is best known for her 2006 animated Film adaptation of Sergei Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf ....
    , director of animated films, winner of Academy Award
    Academy Award for Animated Short Film

    The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931-32, to the present....
     2008
  • Sophy Rickett
    Sophy Rickett

    Sophy Rickett is a visual artist, working with photography and video installation.Her work explores the competing forces of light and darkness in defining and articulating space, often using photography as a way of exploring the distinction between seeing and looking....
    , visual artist, awarded the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellowship, and the British School at Rome
    British School at Rome

    The British School at Rome was established in 1901 and granted a Royal Charter in 1912 as an educational institute culminating the study of awarded British scholars in the fields of archaeology, literature, music, and history of Rome and Italy of every period, and for the study of the fine arts and architecture....
    , Italy


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