100 Notable alumni of
Royal College of Art
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The Royal College of Art is 282nd in the world, 98th in Europe, and 22nd in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal College of Art sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alan Rickman
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- graphic designerscreenwritertelevision actoractorstage actor
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman was an English actor and director. Known for his distinctive deep, languid voice, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing in modern and classical theatre productions. He played the Vicomte de Valmont in the RSC stage production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 1985, and after the production transferred to the West End in 1986 and Broadway in 1987, he was nominated for a Tony Award.
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Ridley Scott
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- film directorfilm producerproducerdirectortelevision producer
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Sir Ridley Scott is an English film director and producer. He directs films in the science fiction, crime, and historical drama genres, with an atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. He ranks among the highest-grossing directors, with his films grossing a cumulative $5 billion worldwide. He has received many accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III in 2024.
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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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David Hockney
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- artistarchitectural draftspersonscreenwritercollagistphotographer
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David Hockney is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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James Dyson
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- inventorindustrial designerentrepreneurdesignerfarmer
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Sir James Dyson is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2023, he is the fifth-richest person in the United Kingdom, with an estimated family net worth of £23 billion. As of March 2024, Forbes lists Dyson's net worth as $13.4 billion.
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Ian Dury
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- recording artistpaintersingeractorsinger-songwriter
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Ian Robins Dury was an English singer, songwriter and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He was the lead singer and lyricist of Kilburn and the High Roads, the Kilburns, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and Ian Dury and the Music Students.
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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
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- painteraristocratsculptorartist
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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll was the sixth child and fourth daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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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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Tracey Emin
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- artistsculptordraftspersoninstallation artistvideo artist
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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, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician.
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Minnie Weisz
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- photographer
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Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz is an English photographer and visual artist who specialises in the camera obscura technique. She is the younger sister of actress Rachel Weisz.
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Mary Martin
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- film actortelevision actorstage actorsinger
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Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman.
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Edwin Lutyens
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied architecture
- Occupations
- urban plannervisual artistarchitect
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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century".
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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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Storm Thorgerson
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- photographergraphic designerfilm directordesigner
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English art director and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other art for Led Zeppelin, Phish, Black Sabbath, 10cc, the Alan Parsons Project, the Mars Volta and the Cranberries.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1904-1906
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- journalistoil paintersuffragistanti-imperialistwomen's rights activist
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Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst welcomed the Russian Revolution and consulted in Moscow with Lenin. But as an advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik regime.
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Peter Blake
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- photographergraphic artistpainterdraftspersonartist
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Sir Peter Thomas Blake CBE RDI RA is an English pop artist. He co-created the sleeve design for the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other works include the covers for two of The Who's albums, the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette.
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Asif Kapadia
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- screenwriterfilm directordirectoractor
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Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker. Kapadia is best known for his trilogy of narratively driven, archive-constructed documentaries Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona.
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Zandra Rhodes
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- designerfashion designer
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Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes DBE RDI, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. She has also designed textiles for interiors, featuring her prints on furniture and homewares. In 2003 Rhodes founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
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Peter Schreyer
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- engineer
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Peter Schreyer is a German automobile designer widely known for his design contributions to the Audi TT. He has been the chief design officer at Kia Motors since 2006 and, on 28 December 2012, he was named one of three presidents of the company.
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Roger Dean
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- architectpainterdesignerillustrator
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William Roger Dean is an English artist, designer, and publisher. He began painting posters and album covers for musicians in the late 1960s. The groups for whom he did the most art are the English rock bands Yes and Asia.
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Thomas Heatherwick
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- architectsculptordesignerartist
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Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI HonFREng is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of more than 200 architects, designers and entrepreneurs from his studio in King's Cross, London.
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Sönke Wortmann
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- film produceractorassociation football playerscreenwriterfilm director
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Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.
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John Foxx
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- photographersongwritergraphic designergraphic artistlecturer
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John Foxx is an English singer, musician, artist, photographer, graphic designer, writer, teacher and lecturer. He was the original lead singer of the new wave band Ultravox, before leaving to embark on a solo career in 1980 with the album Metamatic.
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Una O'Connor
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- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Una O'Connor was an Irish-born American actress who worked extensively in theatre before becoming a character actress in film and in television. She often portrayed comical wives, housekeepers and servants. In 2020, she was listed at number 19 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
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David Adjaye
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- architectfurniture designer
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Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect who has designed many notable buildings around the world, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.. Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to architecture. He received the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, making him the first African recipient and one of the youngest recipients. He was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2022.
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Uday Shankar
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- actorchoreographerscreenwriterfilm directordancer
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Uday Shankar was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was a pioneer of modern dance in India.
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Frank Auerbach
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1952-1955
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- draftspersonpaintergraphic designerartist
- Biography
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Frank Helmut Auerbach was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, both of whom were early supporters of his work.
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Oswald Chambers
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- writertheologian
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Oswald Chambers was an early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher who was aligned with the Holiness Movement. He is best known for the daily devotional My Utmost for His Highest.
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Douglas Stuart
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- writerfashion designer
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Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied at the Scottish College of Textiles and London's Royal College of Art, before moving at the age of 24 to New York City, where he built a successful career in fashion design, while also beginning to write. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain – which had initially been turned down by many publishers on both sides of the Atlantic – was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize. His second novel, Young Mungo, was published in April 2022.
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Ian Callum
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- engineercar designer
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Ian Stuart Callum is a British car designer who has worked for Ford, TWR, and Aston Martin. In 1999 he became the Director of Design for Jaguar Cars, later Jaguar Land Rover, a position he held until mid 2019.
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Steve Mackey
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- composerbassistrecord producermusicianguitarist
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Stephen Patrick Mackey was an English musician and record producer best known as the bass guitarist for the Britpop band Pulp, which he joined in 1989. As a record producer, he produced songs and albums by M.I.A., Florence + the Machine, The Long Blondes and Arcade Fire.
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Andrea Wulf
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- biographeropinion journalistgraphic novelistwriterhistorian
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Andrea Wulf is a German-British historian and writer who has written books, newspaper articles and book reviews.
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Philip Treacy
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- modistedesignerdressmaker
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Philip Anthony Treacy OBE is an Irish haute couture milliner, or hat designer, who has been mostly based in London for his career, and who was described by Vogue magazine as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows. He has won British Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards five times, and has received public honours in both Britain and Ireland. His designs have been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Deborah Nadoolman Landis
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- costume designer
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Deborah Nadoolman Landis is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Three Amigos, all of which credited her as Deborah Nadoolman. Landis served two terms as president of the Costume Designers Guild of which she has been a member for more than thirty years. She is married to director John Landis; their son is screenwriter Max Landis.
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Eric Ravilious
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- wood engraverpaintergraphic designerillustrator
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Eric William Ravilious was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs, Castle Hedingham and other English landscapes, which examine English landscape and vernacular art with an off-kilter, modernist sensibility and clarity. He served as a war artist, and was the first British war artist to die on active service in World War II when the aircraft he was in was lost off Iceland.
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Jozef Kabaň
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- engineerdesigner
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Jozef Kabaň is a Slovak automobile designer. He started his career as a designer at Volkswagen. In 2003 he moved to Audi as an exterior design assistant. In 2007 he advanced to the position of Chief of Exterior Design at Audi. He was exterior designer of the Volkswagen Lupo, SEAT Arosa, Bugatti Veyron and Škoda Octavia. He has been Chief of Exterior Design at Škoda Auto since 2008. In early 2017 he left Škoda for BMW to become its head of design replacing Karim Habib. In 2019 he changed position within BMW Group and headed design at its subsidiary Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. After half a year he decided to leave Rolls-Royce and BMW Group returning to VW in January 2020, this time for its main VW brand. In early 2023, Kabaň was dismissed from Volkswagen and replaced by Bentley designer Andreas Mindt after failing to impress VW's CEO. Bentley replaced Mindt with Tobias Sühlmann.
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Kate Greenaway
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- children's writerartistpainterwriterillustrator
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Catherine Greenaway was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of Art, the South Kensington School of Art, the Heatherley School of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning greetings card market, producing Christmas and Valentine's cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer Edmund Evans printed Under the Window, an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s.
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Elizabeth Emanuel
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- fashion designer
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Elizabeth Florence Emanuel is a British fashion designer who is best known for designing, with her former husband David Emanuel, the wedding dress worn by Lady Diana Spencer on her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981. Since then Elizabeth has developed her own label and worked in costume design for airlines, cinema, pop video and television productions, as well as providing a couture service to some of the world's most famous women.
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John Piper
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- artistphotographerdraftspersoncomposergraphic artist
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John Egerton Christmas Piper CH was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. His work often focused on the British landscape, especially churches and monuments, and included tapestry designs, book jackets, screen prints, photography, fabrics and ceramics. He was educated at Epsom College and trained at the Richmond School of Art followed by the Royal College of Art in London. He turned from abstraction early in his career, concentrating on a more naturalistic but distinctive approach, but often worked in several different styles throughout his career.
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Erdem Moralıoğlu
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- fashion designer
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Erdem Moralıoğlu is a Creative Director and founder of eponymous London-based fashion label Erdem, which he established in 2005.
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Gorden Wagener
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- designercar designer
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Gorden Wagener is a German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Mercedes-Benz Group AG. He was born in Essen.
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Gerry McGovern
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- car designer
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Gerard Gabriel McGovern OBE is a British car designer and the Chief Creative Officer for Jaguar Land Rover leading the Group’s Design Studio at Gaydon, Warwickshire, creating concepts and new models. A strong advocate of design's relevance to brand equity, he is a member of the Jaguar Land Rover board of Management.
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Jasper Morrison
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Graduated with Master of Design
- Occupations
- engineerindustrial designerfurniture designerwriterdesigner
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Jasper Morrison CBE RDI is an English product and furniture designer. He is known for the refinement and apparent simplicity of his designs. In a rare interview with the designer, he is quoted as saying: "Objects should never shout."
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Lubaina Himid
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- professorsculptorpainter
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Lubaina Himid CBE RA is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.
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Peter Sís
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- visual artistfilm directorgraphic artistanimatorwriter
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Peter Sís is a Czech-born American illustrator and writer of children's books. As a cartoonist his editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly. In 2012 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his "lasting contribution" as an illustrator of children's literature.
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Victor Ambrus
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- illustratorvisual artist
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Victor Ambrus FSA FRSA was a Hungarian-born British illustrator of history, folk tales, and animal story books. He also became known from his appearances on the Channel 4 television archaeology series Time Team, on which he visualised how sites under excavation may have once looked. Ambrus was an Associate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painters, Etchers and Engravers. He was also a patron of the Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors up until its merger with the Institute for Archaeologists in 2011.
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Hubert von Herkomer
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- university teacherpainterpoetsculptor
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Sir Hubert von Herkomer CVO RA was a Bavarian-born British painter, pioneering film-director, and composer. Though a very successful portrait artist, especially of men, he is mainly remembered for his earlier works that took a realistic approach to the conditions of life of the poor. Hard Times (1885; Manchester Art Gallery) showing the distraught family of a travelling day-labourer at the side of a road, is one of his best-known works.
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Albert Watson
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- photographerfashion photographer
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Albert Watson OBE is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel and Levis. Watson has also taken some well-known photographs, from the portrait of Steve Jobs that appeared on the cover of his biography, a photo of Alfred Hitchcock holding a plucked goose, and a portrait of a nude Kate Moss taken on her 19th birthday.
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Stephen Goldblatt
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- cinematographerfilm director
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Stephen Goldblatt, A.S.C., B.S.C. is a South African-born British cinematographer, noted for his work on numerous high-profile action films, including the first two entries in the Lethal Weapon series, as well as for his recent collaborations with director Mike Nichols and Tate Taylor.
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Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
- Years
- 1887-1963 (aged 76)
- Occupations
- translatorsculptorwriter
- Biography
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Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge was a British sculptor and translator. She is best known as the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness.
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Alice Temperley
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- fashion designercreative director
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Alice Temperley MBE is an English fashion designer based in Ilminster, Somerset, England. Her fashion label, Temperley London, was launched in 2000.
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Geeta Kapur
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- art historiancuratorartistart critic
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Geeta Kapur is a noted Indian art critic, art historian and curator based in New Delhi. She was one of the pioneers of critical art writing in India, and who, as Indian Express noted, has "dominated the field of Indian contemporary art theory for three decades now". Her writings include artists' monographs, exhibition catalogues, books, and sets of widely anthologized essays on art, film, and cultural theory.
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Edward Bawden
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- war artistart educatorartistdesignerdraftsperson
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Edward Bawden, CBE RA was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had been a student, worked as a commercial artist and served as a war artist in World War II. He was a fine watercolour painter but worked in many different media. He illustrated several books and painted murals in both the 1930s and 1960s. He was admired by Edward Gorey, David Gentleman and other graphic artists, and his work and career is often associated with that of his contemporary Eric Ravilious.
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Idris Khan
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- artistvisual artistphotographervideo artistsculptor
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Idris Khan OBE is a British artist based in London.
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Helen Allingham
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- illustratorpainter
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Helen Allingham RWS was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.
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Lucienne Day
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- textile designerdesigner
- Biography
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Désirée Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day OBE RDI FCSD was one of the most influential British textile designers of the 1950s and 1960s. Day drew on inspiration from other arts to develop a new style of abstract pattern-making in post-war British textiles, known as 'Contemporary' design. She was also active in other fields, such as wallpapers, ceramics and carpets.
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Richard Deacon
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- artistdraftspersonuniversity teachersculptorjewelry designer
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Richard Deacon CBE RA is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.
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Edward Burra
- Occupations
- draftspersongraphic artistprinterpainterartist
- Biography
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Edward John Burra CBE was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s.
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Leslie Green
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Leslie William Green was an English architect. He is best known for his design of iconic stations constructed on the London Underground railway system in central London during the first decade of the 20th century, with distinctive oxblood red faïence blocks including pillars and semi-circular first-floor windows, and patterned tiled interiors done in the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style).
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Jonathan Barnbrook
- Occupations
- graphic designerdesigner
- Biography
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Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London.
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Anthony Finkelstein
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City St George's, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021.
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Rose Wylie
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Rose Wylie OBE RA is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.
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Billy Apple
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1959-1962
- Occupations
- visual artistconceptual artistpaintersculptor
- Biography
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Billy Apple ONZM was a New Zealand artist whose work is associated with the London, Auckland and New York schools of pop art in the 1960s and NY's Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He worked alongside artists like Andy Warhol and David Hockney before opening the second of the seven New York Not-for-Profit spaces in 1969. His work is held in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, National Gallery of Australia, Te Papa, Auckland Art Gallery, the Christchurch Art Gallery, the University of Auckland, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Belgium.
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Gavin Turk
- Occupations
- photographerpainterartistprintmakersculptor
- Biography
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Gavin Turk is a British artist from Guildford in Surrey, and was considered to be one of the Young British Artists. Turk's oeuvre deals with issues of authenticity and identity, engaged with modernist and avant-garde debates surrounding the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work of art.
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Laurence Housman
- Occupations
- biographerwriterplaywrightautobiographernovelist
- Biography
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Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman.
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Jean Jullien
- Occupations
- illustrator
- Biography
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Jean Jullien is a French graphic designer and illustrator.
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Robin Day
- Occupations
- furniture designervisual artistdesignerindustrial designer
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Robin Day, OBE, RDI, FCSD was one of the most significant British furniture designers of the 20th century, enjoying a long career spanning seven decades. An accomplished industrial and interior designer, he was also active in the fields of graphics and exhibitions.
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Jeffrey Gibson
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistpainter
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Jeffrey A. Gibson is an American Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee painter and sculptor. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York; Hudson, New York; and Germantown, New York.
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Hamish Fulton
- Occupations
- photographerartistland artistvisual artistconceptual artist
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Hamish Fulton is an English walking artist. Since 1972 he has only made works based on the experience of walks. He translates his walks into a variety of media, including photography, illustrations, and wall texts. His work is contained in major museums' collections, such as the Tate Britain and MoMA. Since 1994 he has been creating group walks for the public. Fulton argues that "walking is an artform in its own right" and argues for wider acknowledgement of walking art.
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David Mellor
- Occupations
- lighting designer
- Biography
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David Rogerson Mellor CBE FCSD RDI was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.
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Helen Escobedo
- Occupations
- curatorpainterinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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Helen "Elena" Escobedo was a Mexican sculptor and installation artist who has had work displayed all over the world from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, and Canada to the United Kingdom, (Germany), as well Israel and New Zealand.
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Joseph Rykwert
- Occupations
- university teacherarchitecture criticarchitectural theoreticianarchitectarchitectural historian
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Joseph Rykwert CBE was a British architectural historian and writer. He was the Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and the United States. He taught the history and theory of architecture at several institutions in Europe and North America. Rykwert is the author of many influential works on architecture, including The Idea of a Town (1963), On Adam's House in Paradise (1972), The Dancing Column (1996) and The Seduction of Place (2000). All of his books have been translated into several languages.
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Elizabeth Forbes
- Occupations
- painterartist
- Biography
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Elizabeth Adela Forbes was a Canadian painter who was primarily active in the UK. She often featured children in her paintings and School Is Out (painted in Newlyn) is one of her most popular works. She was friends with the artists James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Walter Sickert, both of whom influenced her work. Her etchings in particular are said to show the influence of Whistler.
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Jessie Lipscomb
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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Jessie Lipscomb, later Jessie Elborne, was an English sculptor of the human figure. She worked in Paris in a shared studio workshop in the late 1800s with French sculptor Camille Claudel and two fellow alumni from the Royal College of Art: Amy Singer and Emily Fawcett.
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Charles Sargeant Jagger
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ARA was a British sculptor who, following active service in the First World War, sculpted many works on the theme of war. He is best known for his war memorials, especially the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station. He also designed several other monuments around Britain and other parts of the world.
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Hew Locke
- Occupations
- sculptorpaintervisual artist
- Biography
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Hew Donald Joseph Locke OBE RA 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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David Mach
- Occupations
- artistinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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David Mach RA is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines, vicious teddy bears, newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces.
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Clare Shenstone
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Clare Noel Shenstone is an English artist. She is considered notable for her cloth relief heads and her figure drawings. Her portraits hang in some major British collections including the National Portrait Gallery and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
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Christopher Raeburn
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Christopher Raeburn, is a British fashion designer who reworks surplus fabrics and garments to create menswear, womenswear and accessories.
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Thomas Thwaites
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- In 2009 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- inventorartistdesignerwriterinteraction designer
- Biography
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Thomas Thwaites is a British designer and writer. He describes himself as "a designer, interested in technology, science, futures research & etc."
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Joe Tilson
- Occupations
- artistdraftspersonprintmakergraphic artistsculptor
- Biography
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Joseph Charles Tilson RA was a British visual artist and fellow of the Royal Academy. He was involved in the Pop Art movement in the 1960s; he made paintings, prints and constructions.
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James Jebusa Shannon
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- visual artistpainter
- Biography
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA was an Anglo-American artist. In 1886 he married Florence Mary Cartwright (d. 1948), with whom he had an only child, the illustrator Kitty Shannon (1887–1974).
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Mary Fraser Tytler
- Occupations
- ceramicistpainterarchitect
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Mary Seton Fraser Tytler was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer.
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Guy Hendrix Dyas
- Occupations
- scenographer
- Biography
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Guy Hendrix Dyas is a British-American production designer known for his collaboration with directors such as Pablo Larraín, Danny Boyle, Christopher Nolan, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg.
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Christopher Williams
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Christopher David Williams RBA was a Welsh artist.
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Monster Chetwynd
- Occupations
- performance artistinstallation artistpainter
- Biography
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Monster Chetwynd is a British artist known for reworkings of iconic moments from cultural history in improvised performances. In 2012, she was nominated for the Turner Prize.
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Astrid Sampe
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1933
- Occupations
- designertextile artist
- Biography
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Astrid Sampe was a Swedish textile designer who for a large part of her professional life was affiliated with the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet but also worked for several other textile producers.
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Mortimer Menpes
- Occupations
- draftspersonpainteretcherillustrator
- Biography
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Mortimer Luddington Menpes was an Australian-born painter, author, printmaker and illustrator.
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Mark Adams
- Occupations
- engineercar designerdesigner
- Biography
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Mark Adams is an English car designer. He is current senior car designer at Opel Automobile and has worked as for brands including Cadillac, Buick and Opel.
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Jess Thom
- Occupations
- theatre makeractivistpaintercomedian
- Biography
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Jessica Thom is a British theatre-maker and comedian who established Touretteshero, an alter-ego and project aimed at increasing awareness of Tourette syndrome, the neurological condition which she was diagnosed with in her early twenties. The first Touretteshero production, Backstage in Biscuit Land debuted at Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014. The show won critical acclaim and has since toured across the UK and internationally, including various performances across North America and Australia.
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Alison Jackson
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Alison Jackson is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work explores the theme of celebrity culture. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes.
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Thomas Huber
- Occupations
- installation artistprintmakerperformance artistpainterconceptual artist
- Biography
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Thomas Huber is a Swiss artist who lived and worked in Mettmann near Düsseldorf for several years and is currently resident in Berlin.
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Shezad Dawood
- Occupations
- visual artistpaintermultimedia artistvideo artist
- Biography
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Shezad Dawood is a British visual artist. He is based in London.
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Mary Gillick
- Occupations
- medalistsculptor
- Biography
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Mary Gaskell Gillick OBE was a sculptor and medallist, best known for her effigy of Elizabeth II used on coinage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere from 1953 to 1970.
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Edward Allington
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Edward Thomas Allington was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement.
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Dexter Dalwood
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Dexter Dalwood is a British artist now based in Mexico City.
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Rhoda Carleton Holmes Nicholls
- Occupations
- art educatorpainterillustrator
- Biography
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Rhoda Holmes Nicholls was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls of Port Elizabeth area's scenery, wildlife and architecture. She lived there on her brothers' 25,000-acre ostrich farm for one year.
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Barbara Jones
- Occupations
- writerpainterartistillustrator
- Biography
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Barbara Mildred Jones was an English artist, writer and mural painter. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).
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Alice Bolingbroke Woodward
- Occupations
- scientific illustratorpainterdesignerillustrator
- Biography
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Alice Bolingbroke Woodward was an English artist and illustrator. She was one of the most prolific illustrators at the turn of the 20th century and is known mainly for her work in children's literature, and secondarily for her scientific illustrations.
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Eric Parry
- Occupations
- university teacherdesignerarchitect
- Biography
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Eric Owen Parry RA is a British architect, designer, writer and educator. Parry is the founder and principal of Eric Parry Architects established in London in 1983. His built work includes the restoration and renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holburne Museum in Bath, 50 New Bond Street, 23 Savile Row, One Eagle Place in Piccadilly, Aldermanbury Square by London Wall, 30 Finsbury Square in London, and the London Stock Exchange. His projects also include a number of residential developments. Eric Parry's architectural work and design has been shown internationally on major exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Arts, the British School at Rome, and the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
