100 Notable alumni of
Goldsmiths, University of London
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The Goldsmiths, University of London is 364th in the world, 127th in Europe, and 28th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Goldsmiths, University of London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Damon Albarn
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermulti-instrumentalistrecord producermusician
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Damon Albarn is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman, main vocalist, and lyricist of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Occupations
- film directorfilm producerartistphotographerdirector
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Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE is a British filmmaker. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of the Beatles' singer and songwriter John Lennon. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists.
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Princess Beatrice of York
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2008-2011 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in history of ideas and history
- Occupations
- philanthropistbusinesspersonsocialitefilm actor
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Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, she is ninth as of 2026.
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Kalki Koechlin
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- screenwriterstage actortelevision actorwriterfilm actor
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Kalki Koechlin is a French actress who works in films and stage. Known for her unconventional body of work, primarily in Hindi films, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award. Although a French citizen, she has been raised and lived most of her life in India.
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James Blake
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- singerrecord producercomposersinger-songwriterdisc jockey
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James Blake Litherland is an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his emotive, soulful light head voice and use of falsetto, he first gained recognition following the release of three extended plays—The Bells Sketch, CMYK and Klavierwerke—in 2010. He signed with A&M Records to release his self-titled debut album (2011) the following year, which was met with critical praise and peaked within the top ten of the UK Albums Chart.
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Steve McQueen
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- artisttelevision producerfilm producerscreenwritersculptor
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Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matters, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".
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Damien Hirst
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- film directorillustratorrestaurateurengraverinstallation artist
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Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist and art collector. He was one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
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Malcolm McLaren
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- conceptual artisttalent managerrecord producersongwritertalent agent
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Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English fashion designer, entrepreneur and music manager. He was a promoter and a manager for punk rock and new wave bands such as New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow, and was an early influencer of the punk subculture.
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Brian Molko
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- singerguitaristvocalistsongwriterexecutive producer
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Brian Molko is a Scottish-American musician who is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist of the band Placebo. He is known for his nasal voice and high registered vocals, feminine/androgynous appearance, aggressive guitar style and non-standard tunings.
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John Cale
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- Studied in 1960-1963
- Occupations
- experimental musicianmusic arrangerpianistfilm score composertelevision actor
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John Davies Cale is a Welsh singer, musician, composer, record producer and arranger. He is a founding member of the influential American rock band the Velvet Underground, with whom he recorded two studio albums. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles of rock and avant-garde music.
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Lucian Freud
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- graphic artistartistpainterarchitectural draftspersonprintmaker
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Lucian Michael Freud OM CH was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
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Tracey Emin
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- photographersalespersontextile artistarchitectural draftspersonprintmaker
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Dame Tracey Karima Emin DBE RA is an English artist known for autobiographical and confessional artwork. She produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn appliqué. Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.
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Benedict Taylor
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Benedict Taylor is a British avant-garde violist, violinist and composer.
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Mary Quant
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- Studied in 1955
- Occupations
- fashion designer
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Dame Barbara Mary Quant CH DBE FCSD RDI was a British fashion designer and icon. She became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fashion movements, and played a prominent role in London's Swinging Sixties culture. She was one of the designers who took credit for the miniskirt and hotpants. Ernestine Carter wrote: "It is given to a fortunate few to be born at the right time, in the right place, with the right talents. In recent fashion there are three: Chanel, Dior, and Mary Quant."
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Graham Coxon
- Occupations
- singerpaintersinger-songwritercomposerguitarist
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Graham Leslie Coxon is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter who came to prominence as a founding member of the British rock band Blur, of which he was the lead guitarist and secondary vocalist.
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Dave Myers
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- television celebrity chefmake-up artistchef
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David James Myers was an English television presenter, and one half of the Hairy Bikers, along with Si King. He also appeared on the BBC celebrity talent show Strictly Come Dancing. Together, Myers and King presented a number of television cookery series for the BBC. They also launched an online weight loss programme, 'The Hairy Bikers Diet Club'.
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Julian Clary
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- comedianwriternovelisttelevision presenterimproviser
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Julian Peter McDonald Clary is an English comedian, actor, novelist and presenter. He began appearing on television in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has also acted in films, on television and in stage productions, including numerous pantomimes. He was the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 10 in 2012.
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John Illsley
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- singerguitaristbassist
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John Edward Illsley is an English musician, best known as bassist of the rock band Dire Straits. He has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award.
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Kae Tempest
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- singerwritercomposerrapperpoet
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Kae Tempest is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
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Antony Gormley
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- graphic artistartistscenographerpainterinstallation artist
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Sir Antony Mark David Gormley CH OBE RA is a British sculptor. His works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and Event Horizon, a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo (2012) and Hong Kong (2015–16).
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Huang Ching-ying
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- journalistpolitician
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Huang Ching-yin, nicknamed Hsueh-chieh, is a Taiwanese politician who has served as Taipei City Councillor for the 1st constituency since 2022.
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Neil Innes
- Occupations
- composerpianistactorcomediansongwriter
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Neil James Innes was an English writer, comedian and musician. He first came to prominence in the comedy rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later became a frequent collaborator with the Monty Python troupe on their BBC television series and films, and is often called the "seventh Python" along with performer Carol Cleveland. He co-created the Rutles, a Beatles parody/pastiche project, with Python Eric Idle, and wrote the band's songs. He also wrote and voiced the 1980s ITV children's cartoon adventures of The Raggy Dolls.
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Liz Fraser
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- actorfilm actor
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Elizabeth Joan Winch, known professionally as Liz Fraser, was a British film actress, best known for being cast in provocative comedy roles.
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A. G. Cook
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- composerrecording artistrecord producermusician
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Alexander Guy Cook is an English record producer. He first became known as founder of the influential record label PC Music in 2013; its signees included Hannah Diamond, GFOTY, Danny L Harle and felicita. The label's style of exaggerated pop tropes grew to serve as the foundation of the hyperpop genre, which Cook is credited for developing and popularising. He later became more widely known as executive producer for Charli XCX. He has released solo music under both his name and aliases like DJ Lifeline and DJ Warlord.
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Tessa Jowell
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- politician
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Tessa Jane Helen Douglas Jowell, Baroness Jowell, DBE, PC was a British Labour Party politician and life peer who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dulwich and West Norwood, previously Dulwich, from 1992 to 2015.
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Bernardine Evaristo
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo is an English author and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London. Her novel Girl, Woman, Other jointly won the Booker Prize in 2019 alongside Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, making her the first black woman to win the Booker. The novel won many other awards including two British Book awards (aka "Nibbies"). In 2025, Evaristo was selected from among all previous Women's Prize for Fiction winners and nominees as the recipient of the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award, a one-off literary honour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London (BUL) and served for four years as President of the Royal Society of Literature, the second woman and the first black person to hold the role since it was founded in 1820.
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Katy B
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- disc jockeysinger-songwriterrecording artistrecord producer
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Kathleen Anne Brien, known professionally as Katy B, is an English singer. She released her debut studio album, On a Mission, in 2011, which spawned two top five hits, "Katy on a Mission" and "Lights On". In 2014 she released her second studio album, Little Red, which produced her third top five hit, "Crying for No Reason". Her third studio album, Honey, was released in 2016.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson
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- singersongwriterwriterrecording artistpoet
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Linton Kwesi Johnson CD, also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist. In 2002, he became the second living poet, and the only black one, to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. His performance poetry involves the recitation of his own verse in Jamaican patois over dub-reggae, usually written in collaboration with reggae producer/artist Dennis Bovell.
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Chris Corner
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- singer-songwriterDJ producersingerrecord producer
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Christopher Anthony Corner is an English record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, singer and video artist. He was a founding member of the band Sneaker Pimps alongside Liam Howe, and is now active with his solo project IAMX.
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Suzanne Packer
- Occupations
- actor
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Suzanne Packer is a Welsh actress, known for playing the role of Tess Bateman in the BBC medical drama Casualty from September 2003 to August 2015. She later returned to the series as a guest for the 30th-anniversary episodes in 2016. Since departing from Casualty, she has appeared in various television series including Bang, In My Skin and The Pembrokeshire Murders.
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Yinka Shonibare
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
- Occupations
- photographerinstallation artistsculptorpaintervideo installation artist
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Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, is a British artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. A hallmark of his art is the brightly coloured Ankara fabric he uses. As Shonibare is paralysed on one side of his body, he uses assistants to make works under his direction.
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Alex Zane
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- television presentercomedianjournalist
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Alex Zane is an English television presenter and DJ.
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Tadeusz Kościński
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- politicianbanker
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Tadeusz Kościński is a Polish politician. He served as Minister of Finance in the second cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki from November 2019, but resigned in February 2022 after a failed tax reform.
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Louise Casey
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- civil servant
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Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock, DBE, CB, is a crossbench peer and current British government official, where she serves as lead non-executive director. She was the deputy director of Shelter in 1992, the head of the Rough Sleepers' Unit (RSU) in 1999, a director of the national Anti-Social Behaviour Unit (ASBU) in 2003, head of the Respect Task Force in 2005 and the UK's first Victims' Commissioner in March 2010. She became director general of Troubled Families on 1 November 2011.
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Keir Simmons
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- journalist
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Keir Hardie Brennan-Simmons is an English journalist. He has been the chief international correspondent for the NBC morning show Today since December 2018. He also appears regularly on the evening broadcast NBC Nightly News, and fills in as an anchor on MSNBC.
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Sarah Lucas
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- performance artistartistinstallation artistsculptorvisual artist
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Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and found objects.
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Laurence Juber
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- guitaristsession musician
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Laurence Ivor Juber is an English musician, fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician. He played guitar in the rock band Wings from 1978 to 1981.
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Alex James
- Occupations
- bass guitarist
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Steven Alexander James is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the rock band Blur. He has also played with the bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.
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Hisham Matar
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- writerpoetnovelistessayist
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Hisham Matar is an American-born British-Libyan novelist, essayist, and memoirist. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize, and his memoir of the search for his father, The Return, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and several other awards. Matar's essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, and many other publications. He has also written several other novels.
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Gillian Wearing
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- film directorartisttelevision producerconceptual artistsculptor
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Gillian Wearing CBE, RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her statue of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett stands in London's Parliament Square.
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Tom Keating
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- painterart forgercharlatanrestorer
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Thomas Patrick Keating was an English artist, art restorer and art forger. Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, he claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings by more than 160 different artists of unprecedented scope—ranging from the Renaissance (Holbein, Titian, Tintoretto) to Modernism, Expressionism and Fauvism (Kandinsky, Klee, Matisse)—with heavy emphasis on English landscape Romanticists and the French Impressionists. Total estimated profits from his forgeries amount in today's value to more than $10 million.
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Dayne Walling
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- politician
- Biography
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Dayne Walling is an American politician who was the mayor of Flint, Michigan from 2009 to 2015. Although the Flint mayor's office is a nonpartisan position, Walling is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Paris Paloma
- Years
- 1999-.. (age 27)
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
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Paris Paloma is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. She gained prominence through the single "Labour" (2023). Her debut album, Cacophony, was released in 2024.
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Giselle Laronde
- Occupations
- modelbeauty pageant contestant
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Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde-West is a Trinidadian model, Stenographer and beauty queen who won Miss World 1986, representing Trinidad and Tobago. She became the second woman from that nation to win an international beauty pageant, after Janelle Commissiong Miss Universe 1977 and the only one to date, to win Miss World title. The pageant was held in London, UK at the Royal Albert Hall on November 13, 1986.
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Janice Koh
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- performing artistactorpolitician
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Janice Koh is a Singaporean actress and a former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.
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Molly Parkin
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- novelistfashion editorpainterautobiographerjournalist
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Molly Noyle Parkin was a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most well-known for her work on Nova magazine, newspapers and television in the 1960s.
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Kerry McCarthy
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Kerry Gillian McCarthy is a British politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol East since 2005. A member of the Labour Party, she was Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2016. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Climate from July 2024 to September 2025.
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Wade Elliott
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
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Wade Patrick Elliott is an English former professional footballer who was most recently head coach of EFL League One club Cheltenham Town. He played mainly as a right midfielder but could also play as a central midfielder.
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John Akomfrah
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- film screenwritertheoristinstallation artistfilmmakerfilm director
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Sir John Akomfrah CBE RA is a Ghanaian-born British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator of Ghanaian descent, whose "commitment to a radicalism both of politics and of cinematic form finds expression in all his films".
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Jon Caramanica
- Occupations
- journalistmusic critic
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Jon Caramanica is an American journalist and pop music critic who writes for The New York Times. He is also known for writing about hip-hop music.
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Laure Prouvost
- Occupations
- videographerperformance artistinstallation artistsound artistartist
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Laure Prouvost is a French artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media installation Deep See Blue Surrounding You.
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Merlyn Rees
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Merlyn Merlyn-Rees, Baron Merlyn-Rees, PC was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament from 1963 until 1992. He served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1974–1976) and Home Secretary (1976–1979).
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Michael Landy
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- photographerdraftspersoninstallation artistsculptorpainter
- Biography
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Michael Landy CBE RA is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project (2010) at the South London Gallery. On 29 May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
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Liam Gillick
- Occupations
- painterconceptual artistsculptorartistinstallation artist
- Biography
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Liam Gillick is a British artist. In the 1990s he was one of the informal Young British Artists group; like many of them, he took a degree in fine art from Goldsmiths' College, in London. He was among the artists included in the Traffic exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux in Bordeaux in 1996, where Nicolas Bourriaud's concept of relationality was first proposed. Gillick lives in New York.
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Mark Wallinger
- Occupations
- video artistsculptorartistinstallation artistphotographer
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Mark Wallinger is an English artist. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Labyrinth (2013), a permanent commission for Art on the Underground, was created to celebrate 150 years of the London Underground. In 2018, the permanent work Writ in Water was realized for the National Trust to celebrate where Magna Carta was signed at Runnymede.
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Monty Oxy Moron
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- 1993-1995 studied art
- Occupations
- keyboardist
- Biography
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Monty Oxymoron is a keyboardist for the English punk rock group the Damned.
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Matthew Strachan
- Occupations
- lyricistcomposersinger-songwriter
- Biography
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Matthew Strachan was an English composer and singer-songwriter. Matthew Strachen died on September 8th, 2021 in Twickenham, London, England. Matthew Strachen was just 50 years old.
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Rob da Bank
- Occupations
- journalistdisc jockey
- Biography
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Robert John Gorham, known by the pseudonym Rob da Bank, is an English DJ and co-founder of music festivals Bestival, originally on the Isle of Wight and now moved to Lulworth, Dorset and Camp Bestival, also in Lulworth. He presented a show on BBC Radio 1 which focused on promoting new left-field music. Examples of artists featured on his show include Tipper, Moloko and a host of unsigned acts.
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Denton Welch
- Occupations
- writerpainternovelistdiarist
- Biography
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Maurice Denton Welch was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.
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Tom MacRae
- Occupations
- science fiction writerscreenwritercomposer
- Biography
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Tom MacRae is an English television writer, author, playwright, lyricist, television producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the creator of the television series Threesome and the book writer and lyricist of the Olivier nominated stage musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie.
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Kanya King
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Kanya King, CBE, is a British entrepreneur who founded the MOBO Awards.
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Bob and Roberta Smith
- Occupations
- painterphotographerartist
- Biography
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Patrick Brill OBE RA, better known by his pseudonym Bob and Roberta Smith, is a British contemporary artist, writer, author, musician, art education advocate, and keynote speaker. He is known for his "slogan" art, is an associate professor at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University and has curated public art projects such as Art U Need. He was curator for the 2006 Peace Camp and created the 2013 Art Party to promote contemporary art and advocacy. His works have been exhibited and are in collections in Europe and the United States. Brill co-founded The Ken Ardley Playboys and hosts the Make Your Own Damn Music radio show.
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Fiona Mactaggart
- Occupations
- philanthropistteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Fiona Margaret Mactaggart is a British politician and former primary school teacher who has been chair of the Fawcett Society since 2018. A member of the Labour Party, she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Slough from 1997 to 2017.
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John Craxton
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- painterlithographerscenographer
- Biography
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John Leith Craxton RA, was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".
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Simon Toyne
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Simon Toyne is a British writer of thriller fiction, including the Sanctus Trilogy and Solomon Creed series.
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Henry Bond
- Occupations
- exhibition curatorwriterphotographer
- Biography
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Henry Bond, FHEA is an English writer, photographer, and visual artist. In his Lacan at the Scene (2009), Bond made contributions to theoretical psychoanalysis and forensics.
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Owen Hatherley
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Owen Hatherley is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture.
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Iiris
- Occupations
- actorsingercomposer
- Biography
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Iiris Vesik, better known as simply Iiris, is an Estonian singer, songwriter, and stage actress. Her debut album, The Magic Gift Box, was released in March 2012 under EMI Music Finland. She is also a member and the main singer of the group Night Tapes.
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Walter Landor
- Occupations
- graphic designerdesigner
- Biography
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Walter Joseph Landor was a brand designer and the founder of Landor & Fitch. He was a proponent of branding and consumer research techniques widely used to this day. Landor, the company he founded as Landor Associates in 1941, has offices around the world.
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Nouneh Sarkissian
- Occupations
- children's writerphilologistpolitician
- Biography
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Nouneh Sarkissian is an Armenian art historian and author. She is the wife of former Armenian President Armen Sarksyan and is the former First Lady of Armenia.
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Anthony Joseph
- Occupations
- science fiction writerpoetnovelistjazz musician
- Biography
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Anthony Joseph FRSL is a British/Trinidadian poet, novelist, musician and academic. In 2023, he was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize for his book Sonnets for Albert.
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Beatie Wolfe
- Born in
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United Kingdom - Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2006-2009 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterguitaristartistsinger
- Biography
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Beatie Wolfe is an Anglo-American conceptual artist and composer described as a "musical weirdo and visionary" known for seeing music differently and creating new formats for music and art in the digital era. These projects include a space broadcast via the Holmdel Horn Antenna, the world's first 360° AR live-stream, a visualization of 800,000 years of CO2 levels and a "visceralisation" of methane data set against Big Oil advertisements. Wolfe was selected to reboot the historic Bell Labs program Experiments in Art and Technology which began with John Cage and Andy Warhol. Wolfe's work has been featured internationally at United Nations COP26, the Nobel Prize Summit, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The New York Times Climate Summit, the London Design Biennale, TEDMED, Somerset House, SXSW, Museum of Science, MIT Media Lab, Cent Quatre, Ars Electronica museum, and the Barbican. Wired selected Wolfe as one of 22 changing the world, she is a winner of Prix Ars Electronica's Golden Nica Award, two Anthem Awards, a Falling Walls finalist and UN Women chose Wolfe as one of nine innovators for a global campaign for International Women's Day. Wolfe is also the co-founder of a "profound" research project looking at the Power of Music for people living with dementia. The artist has collaborated with experimental artists Brian Eno, Mark Mothersbaugh, Laraaji, Michael Stipe, Allee Willis and producer Linda Perry.
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Laura Bettinson
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Laura Bettinson, also known by her stage names Femme and Lau.ra, is an English singer, songwriter, producer and DJ. She started writing music at 16, gigging around the Midlands area before moving to London to study Bmus Popular Music at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Simon Hale
- Occupations
- film score composercomposermusician
- Biography
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Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist.
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Cathy Jamieson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Catherine Mary Jamieson is a Scottish business director, currently a director at Kilmarnock Football Club and former politician. She served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 2000 to 2008. She previously served in the Scottish Executive as Minister for Justice from 2003 to 2007 and Minister for Education and Young People from 2001 to 2003. Jamieson was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley from 1999 to 2011 and was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock and Loudoun from 2010 to 2015.
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Corrie Corfield
- Occupations
- announcer
- Biography
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Coriona Kear Ware Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.
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Assaf Gavron
- Occupations
- rock musicianwritertranslatorliterary editorjournalist
- Biography
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Assaf Gavron is an Israeli writer, novelist, translator, and musician. Formerly a journalist and hi-tech worker, his books have been translated to several languages and won awards such as the Bernstein Prize for The Hilltop (2013), Prix Courrier International (France) for Croc Attack (2012), "Ein Buch für die Stadt" (Cologne, Germany) for the same novel (2012), and the Israeli Prime Minister Award for authors (2011).
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Tiziana Terranova
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- writerresearchersociologistlecturer
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Tiziana Terranova is an Italian theorist and activist whose work focuses on the effects of information technology on society through concepts such as digital labor and commons. Terranova has published the monograph Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches, and appeared as a keynote speaker in several conferences. She lectures on the digital media cultures and politics in the Department of Human and Social Sciences, at the University of Naples, 'L'Orientale'.
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Gerry Judah
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- sculptor
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Gerald David Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.
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Stuart Pigott
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- journalistwriter
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Stuart Pigott is a British wine critic and author who has lived in Berlin since 1993. Pigott mostly writes in German, and focuses on German wine. He writes for the specialist magazines Feinschmecker and Weingourmet as well as the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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Bozhidar Bozhanov
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- software developersoftware engineerpolitician
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Bozhidar Plamenov Bozhanov is a Bulgarian programmer, entrepreneur politician and co-leader of the Yes Bulgaria! party. He is the Minister of Electronic Governance from 13 December 2021 to 2 August 2022. He is a member of the 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, and the 51st National Assembly.
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Michael D. Ford
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- art directorillustratorproduction designer
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Michael Dickins Ford was an English film art director and set decorator.
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Rachel Howard
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- painter
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Rachel Howard is a British contemporary artist and painter, who has exhibited nationally and internationally and whose works are held in several private and public collections.
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Ajay Chabra
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- actortelevision actor
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Ajay Chhabra is a British television and theatre actor, director, producer and comedian of Indo-Fijian heritage, who is best known for playing Anil in The Basil Brush Show, The Vicar, Suresh Mattai in the BBC Radio series The Archers and the Defense Barrister George Karnad in Holby City. Ajay, and Simmy Gupta are co-Artistic Directors of Nutkhut, and founder of the London Mela (Europe's largest South Asian festival).
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Quilla Constance
- Enrolled in the Goldsmiths, University of London
- Graduated with Master of Fine Arts
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- television producerfilm directorlecturerartist
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Jennifer Allen, known professionally as Quilla Constance, is a British contemporary interdisciplinary artist and lecturer, born in Birmingham, 1980.
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Heather Jansch
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- visual artistsculptor
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Heather Jansch was a British sculptor notable for making life-sized sculptures of horses from driftwood. Jansch reported that she struggled in her youth academically, but had a passion for drawing and writing. She attended Walthamstow Technical College for her Foundation year and from there gained a place at Goldsmith's. This proved a great disappointment, as figurative art was greatly derided there at the time. She left after the first year.
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Alison Hume
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- screenwriterscience fiction writertelevision producerpolitician
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Alison Louise Hume is a British Labour Party politician and television writer who has been Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby since 2024. In television she is known for her work as creator and executive producer of the CBBC series The Sparticle Mystery and the BBC drama Rocket Man.
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Simon Patterson
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- painterconceptual artistartistvisual artistphotographer
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Simon Patterson is an English artist and was born in Leatherhead, Surrey. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1996 for his exhibitions at the Lisson Gallery, the Gandy Gallery, and three shows in Japan. He is the younger brother of the painter Richard Patterson.
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Lijia Zhang
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- journalistwriter
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Lijia Zhang is a rocket-factory-worker turned Chinese writer, columnist and public speaker. She describes herself as a communicator between China and the world and has given talks at conferences and institutions about contemporary China. She has lectured at many universities around the world including Stanford University, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University in the U.S., Monash University, the University of Sydney in Australia, and Leeds and the University of Nottingham in England.
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Darren Johnson
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- politician
- Biography
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Darren Paul Johnson is a former English politician who was a prominent member of the Green Party of England and Wales. He represented the Green Party on the London Assembly from 2000 to 2016 and was a Green councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham. He is now a writer and has had several rock music biographies published.
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Goldierocks
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- television presenterdisc jockeyjournalist
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Samantha Louise Hall, better known as Goldierocks, is a British DJ, broadcaster, journalist and voice over artist.
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Sarah Gillespie
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- singerpaintersinger-songwriterguitaristsongwriter
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Sarah Gillespie is a British-American singer-songwriter, poet and producer known for her blend of poetic lyrics with folk, blues, and jazz influences. She has released five albums, which have received critical acclaim. Gillespie has collaborated with prominent jazz musicians including Chris Montague, Mercury prize nominated Kit Downes, Laura Jurd, James Maddren, and Ruth Goller. Her style is often compared to Bob Dylan and Tom Waits. Her work extends into arts education and advocacy: she founded the Create Now Academy in 2020 to mentor women in songwriting and creativity, and in 2025 launched the non-profit initiative She Writes Songs, with events in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Suki Chan
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- artist
- Biography
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Suki Chan is an artist and filmmaker whose work uses light, moving image and sound to explore our perception of reality. She is drawn to light as a physical phenomenon, and the role it plays in our constantly shifting daily experience of our environment, be it urban or rural. Her pieces vary from photography, film installation to mixed-media sculptures.
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Nick Petford
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- academicgeologist
- Biography
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Nick Petford is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northampton. Previously he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Bournemouth University and before that Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Kingston University. He has also worked for BP and on academic and commercial research projects throughout the world. As an academic he is known for his expertise in magmatic systems and volcanology. His publicly available Google Scholar Nick Petford account records over 200 journal articles, pieces of journalism, published abstracts and book chapters in this and other fields. He is a deputy lieutenant for Northamptonshire and in 2021 was granted Freedom of the City of London.
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Max Hattler
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- composerfilm editorproduction designercinematographerfilm producer
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Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animation loops "Sync", "1923 aka Heaven" and "1925 aka Hell" (2010).
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Patsy Widakuswara
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- journalist
- Biography
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Patsy Widakuswara is an Indonesian–American radio and broadcast journalist in the United States who covers the White House and U.S. politics. She is the White House Bureau Chief of Voice of America. An incident following VOA news director Robert R. Reilly's interview of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo resulted in her removal from the White House beat and subsequent reinstatement 11 days later. Widakuswara was a lead plaintiff in a successful case to overturn a Presidential order that the Voice of America should be shut down in March 2025.
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Bill Burns
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- artist
- Biography
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Bill Burns is a Canadian artist.
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Marco Donnarumma
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- new media artist
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Marco Donnarumma is an Italian performance artist, sound artist, new media artist, inventor and theorist based in Berlin. His work addresses the relationship between body, politics and technology. He is widely known for his performances fusing sound, computation, robotics and biotechnology. He designs and builds body-related technologies, such as robotic prostheses powered by AI and musical instruments that use the body’s acoustic signals to create sound. Ritual, shock and entrainment are key elements to his aesthetics. Donnarumma is often associated with cyborg and posthuman artists and is acknowledged for his contribution to human-machine interfacing through the unconventional use of muscle sound and biofeedback. From 2016 to 2018 he was a Research Fellow at Berlin University of the Arts in collaboration with the Neurorobotics Research Lab at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin. In 2019, together with bioartist Margherita Pevere and media artist Andrea Familari, he co-founded the artists group for hybrid live art Fronte Vacuo. Since 2022, he is an Associate Researcher at the Intelligent Instruments Lab, Reykjavik. In 2022-2023 he was a Medienkunst Fellow at medienwerk.nrw. Donnarumma was named by Der Standard a pioneer in the field of performing arts with advanced technologies.
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Vaughan Grylls
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- artist
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Vaughan Grylls is a British artist, photographer, and author. Known for his fine art photography and sculptures, Grylls first received recognition for his 1960s pun-sculptures and, later, for his 1980s photography and panoramic photo collages.
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Manuel Mathieu
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- painter
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Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian contemporary visual artist recognized as a painter of abstract works that suggest figurative forms within ambiguous spaces. Mathieu draws from Haitian visual cultures and from Western art movements such as expressionism and existentialism. His practice weaves together formal techniques, Haitian contemporary art movements to explore phenomenologies of human relations as they relate to power dynamics, loyalty, love, nature, subjective experience, history writing. Mathieu’s work reflects on the intersection of individual and historical identity, examining how personal histories resonate within larger socio-political contexts.
