22 Notable alumni of
Leeds Arts University
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Leeds Arts University is 1892nd in the world, 633rd in Europe, and 111th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from Leeds Arts 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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Tony Scott
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- directorfilm directorfilm producer
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Anthony David Leighton Scott was a British film director and producer.
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Damien Hirst
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- paintervisual artistfilm directorillustratorrestaurateur
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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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Leigh Francis
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- screenwriterprogram hosttelevision actorcomedian
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Leigh Izaak Francis, who is often known by the name of a character he plays, Keith Lemon, is an English television presenter, comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for creating and starring in Channel 4's sketch comedy show Bo' Selecta! (2002–2009) and presenting the ITV shows Celebrity Juice (2008–2022) and Through the Keyhole (2013–2019). His other comedy shows include Lemon La Vida Loca (2012–2013), The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (2015–2016), and The Keith & Paddy Picture Show (2017–2018).
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Henry Moore
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- watercoloristgraphic artistsculptorillustratorbandmaster
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Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore also produced many drawings, including a series depicting Londoners sheltering from the Blitz during the Second World War, along with other graphic works on paper.
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Barbara Hepworth
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- photographerpainterdraftspersonartistsculptor
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Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
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Frankie Vaughan
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- actorsinger
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Frankie Vaughan CBE DL was an English singer and actor who recorded more than 80 easy listening and traditional pop singles in his lifetime. He was known as "Mr. Moonlight" after his signature song "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl". Two of Vaughan's singles topped the UK Singles Chart – "The Garden of Eden" (1957) and "Tower of Strength" (1961). He starred in several films, including a role opposite Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love (1960).
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Anthony Browne
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- graphic designerdraftspersonwriterartistchildren's writer
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Anthony Edward Tudor Browne CBE is a British writer and illustrator of children's books, primarily picture books. Browne has written or illustrated over fifty books, and received the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2000. From 2009 to 2011 he was Children's Laureate.
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Michael Chapman
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- singer-songwriterguitarist
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Michael Chapman was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist who released 58 albums, displaying a "fusion of jazz, rock, Indian and ragtime styles made him a cult hero". He began playing with jazz bands, mainly in his home town of Leeds, and became well known in the folk clubs of the late 1960s, as well as on the progressive music scene. Having celebrated fifty years as a professional musician in 2016, he continued to regularly tour the UK, Europe and US.
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Gina Martin
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- activist
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Gina Martin is a British political activist and author. She is known for her case to make upskirting illegal in England and Wales, which resulted in the Voyeurism Act 2019. Martin also authored a book, Be the Change: A Toolkit for the Activist in You, and rejected a nomination for an award of an Order of the British Empire in 2020.
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Kenneth Armitage
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- sculptorlithographer
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William Kenneth Armitage CBE was a British sculptor known for his semi-abstract bronzes.
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Diz Disley
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- jazz guitaristjazz musician
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William Charles "Diz" Disley was an Anglo-Canadian jazz guitarist and banjoist. He is best known for his acoustic jazz guitar playing, strongly influenced by Django Reinhardt, for his contributions to the UK trad jazz, skiffle and folk scenes as a performer and humorist, and for his collaborations with the violinist Stéphane Grappelli.
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Glen Baxter
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- painterpoetcaricaturistlithographerwriter
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Glen Baxter is an English draughtsman and artist, noted for his absurdist drawings and an overall effect often resembling literary nonsense.
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Ria Sharma
- Years
- 1992-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Ria Sharma is a social activist and the first Indian to receive the UNICEF Global Goals Awards for 2017.
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Jacob Kramer
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- 1892-1962 (aged 70)
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- painter
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Jacob Kramer was a Russian-born painter who spent all of his working life in England.
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Victor Sloan
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- photographer
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Victor Sloan MBE is a Northern Irish photographer and artist.
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Paul Clark
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- musician
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Paul Clark is an English musician best known as the keyboard player of post-punk band the Bolshoi. As a solo electronic artist, he released a digitally remixed collection of analog four-track recordings originally recorded between 1989 and 1991 titled Starship Oak, and is currently working on a new album with producer Mick Glossop titled Merciana.
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Peter Murphy
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- painter
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Peter Murphy is a British artist working in traditional egg tempera and gold leaf techniques, and a member of the Stuckist art movement.
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Henry Carr
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- painter
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Henry Marvell Carr, RA RP RBA, was a successful British landscape and portrait painter who served as a war artist during World War II.
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Bernard Schottlander
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- designersculptor
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Bernard Schottlander was a British, German-born designer and sculptor. His archive is located at the University of Brighton Design Archives.
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Vera Scarth-Johnson
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- conservationistbotanistbotanical illustrator
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Vera Scarth-Johnson OAM was a noted botanist and botanical illustrator who is also remembered for her continual efforts to teach others to treasure the flora and environment of Australia and, in particular, the botanically rich region of Cooktown and the Endeavour River Valley, on Cape York Peninsula, in far northern Queensland.
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John Philip Busby
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- visual artistteacherpainterwriterillustrator
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John Philip Busby RSW RSA was an influential artist whose close observation of nature and dedication to drawing from life inspired several generations of leading wildlife artists.
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Joseph Hermon Cawthra
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- sculptor
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Joseph Hermon Cawthra, was an English monumental sculptor. During his lifetime he was considered among the leading classical sculptors working in Britain and received several commissions for public monuments, war memorials and architectural sculptures.
