17 Notable alumni of
Falmouth University
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Falmouth University is 2001st in the world, 672nd in Europe, and 115th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Falmouth University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ben Howard
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristsingermusician
- Biography
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Benjamin John Howard is an English singer-songwriter, musician and composer. His self-released debut extended play (EP) Games in the Dark (2008) was followed by two more EPs, These Waters (2009) and Old Pine (2010). Signed to Island Records, his debut studio album came in 2011 titled Every Kingdom. The album reached number four on the UK Albums Chart and was certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Howard later released two more EPs, Ben Howard Live (2011) and The Burgh Island E.P. (2012).
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Neil Harbisson
- Occupations
- lecturerexperimental artist
- Biography
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Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-raised British-Irish cyborg artist and cyborg rights advocate who has been widely portrayed as the world's first cyborg. International attention grew after he received permission to appear in his UK passport photo with an antenna implanted in his skull, a device he considers a new sensory organ. His artistic and activist work centres on expanded perception, the development of artificial senses and the rights of people with technologically extended bodies.
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Paul Martin
- Occupations
- television presenterdrummerpresenter
- Biography
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Paul Martin is an English antiques dealer, best known for being the presenter of various BBC television antiques programmes including Flog It!, Trust Me, I'm a Dealer and Paul Martin's Handmade Revolution. In his earlier life he was a professional drummer.
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Moon Ribas
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- dancerchoreographercyborg
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Moon Ribas is a Spanish cyborg activist and avant-garde artist best known for developing and implanting online seismic sensors in her feet that allow her to feel earthquakes through vibrations. Since 2007, international media have described her as the world's first cyborg woman or the world's first female cyborg artist. She is the co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that encourages humans to become cyborgs and promotes cyborgism as an art movement. She is also the co-founder of the Transpecies Society, an association that gives voice to people with non-human identities and offers the development of new senses and organs in community. Her choreography works are based on the exploration of new movements developed by the addition of new senses or sensory extensions to the dancer.
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Tacita Dean
- Occupations
- film directorartistconceptual artistpaintervideo artist
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Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA is a British visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Los Angeles, California.
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Hew Locke
- Occupations
- sculptorpaintervisual artist
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Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000, he won a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award. He grew up in Guyana, but has lived most of his adult life in London.
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Ben Rivers
- Occupations
- filmmaker
- Biography
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Ben Rivers is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in London, England. His work has been screened at film festivals and galleries around the world and have won numerous awards. Rivers' work ranges in themes, including exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portraits of real-life subjects.
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Liz Fuller
- Occupations
- television producermodelfilm directorbeauty pageant contestant
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Elizabeth Angela Fuller is a Welsh actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder known for being Miss Great Britain 1996–1997. Fuller is the former owner of the Miss Great Britain pageant from September 2009 to January 2011. She launched her own competition of the Miss British Empire beauty pageant in 2011. She married ex snowboarding superstar Phil Clarke in May 2024 at a reception at Hensol castle, South Wales.
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Paul Newham
- Enrolled in Falmouth University
- Studied in 1981-1985
- Occupations
- psychotherapist
- Biography
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Paul Newham is a retired British psychotherapist known for developing techniques used in psychology and psychotherapy that make extensive use of the arts to facilitate and examine two forms of human communication: the interpersonal communication through which people speak aloud and listen to others, and the intrapersonal communication that enables individuals to converse silently with themselves. His methods emphasise the examination of traumatic experiences through literary and vocal mediums of expression, including creative writing, storytelling, and song. He is cited by peers as a pioneer in recognition of his original contribution to the expressive therapies.
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Julie Umerle
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Julie Umerle is an American-born abstract painter who lives and works in London.
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Jago
- Occupations
- illustrator
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Jago is a British children's book illustrator. He attended Falmouth College of Art from 2000 to 2003. He has produced digital illustrations for a variety of publishers: Barefoot Books, Oxford University Press, Mantra Lingua and Zondervan.
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Laurence Anholt
- Occupations
- illustratorwriter
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Laurence Anholt is an English author and illustrator of more than 200 books in over 30 languages, covering a wide age range, from picture books to adult fiction. Anholt's picture books are notable for their upbeat and humorous approach to important issues for young children, often based on his own family experience and typified by a quirky, hand drawn pen and watercolour style. In recent years, Anholt has turned to writing for an older age range, including The Hypnotist a novel for a Young Adult readership published by Penguin Random House, about race and civil rights set in the Deep South of America in the early 1960s. The novel was officially endorsed by Amnesty International and in 2017 won the Historical Association's Young Quills Award. In July 2019, Anholt's first title in the Mindful Detective series featuring Buddhist cop, Vincent Caine, Art of Death was published by Constable / Little, Brown. Laurence Anholt lives in Devon, Southwest England.
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Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
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- photographerphotojournalist
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Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, also known as M R Hasan, is a Bangladeshi journalist, documentary photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker and visual artist. He has made black and white photographs about climate change, political violence and the Rohingya refugee crisis. He has also been practicing fine art photography and digital art for many years.
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Tim Shaw
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Tim Shaw RA is a Belfast-born sculptor and contemporary visual artist working in Cornwall UK. Tim Shaw was elected to be a Royal Academician in 2013 and won the Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2015.
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Petra Kuppers
- Enrolled in Falmouth University
- In 1999 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- university teacherperformance artistartist
- Biography
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Petra Kuppers is a community performance artist and a disability culture activist. She is a professor of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Theater and Dance, and Art and Design, teaching mainly in Performance Studies and Disability Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and she served on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA program in Interdisciplinary Arts for over a decade until the program ended.
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Hamish Mackie
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Hamish Mackie is a British wildlife sculptor who works in bronze, silver and any other castable metal using the lost-wax casting method. He is considered to be one of the world's foremost wildlife sculptors. Largely self-taught, Mackie captures his subjects - ranging from livestock to birds via wild animals - by observation in a natural environment, taking detailed photographs and sometimes modelling in plasticine. From this he creates a highly accurate anatomical core covered with a loose, almost impressionistic skin that captures the essence of the animal's personality. He has won numerous commissions including works for Jilly Cooper, Charles Saatchi, Ronnie Wood (private) and RSPCA, National Trust, Woburn Abbey, Merrill Lynch, Hiscox and most recently the Berkeley Group Holdings (public). He has travelled to places including Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, Australia, across Africa, and the United Arab Emirates in search of subjects.
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Paul McGowan
- Occupations
- painter
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Paul McGowan is an artist, fashion designer and formerly the artist in residence at the Eden Project. He is a former student of the Falmouth School of Art, and had his first exhibition in St Ives while still a student.
