100 Notable alumni of
Royal College of Art
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The Royal College of Art is 275th in the world, 95th 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
- Occupations
- voice actorcharacter actorstage actoractortelevision 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 (RADA) in London and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), 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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- executive producerfilm producerscreenwriterdirectoractor
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Sir Ridley Scott, is an English filmmaker. He is best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime and historical drama genres. His work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. 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 and appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire by King Charles III in 2024.
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Tony Scott
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- directorscreenwriteractorfilm producerfilm director
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Anthony David Leighton Scott was an English film director and producer. He made his theatrical film debut with The Hunger (1983) and went on to direct highly successful action and thriller films such as Top Gun (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Days of Thunder (1990), The Last Boy Scout (1991), Crimson Tide (1995), Enemy of the State (1998), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006), and Unstoppable (2010).
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David Hockney
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- screenwriterdrawergraphic artistcollagistprintmaker
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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 century.
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James Dyson
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- entrepreneurindustrial designerinventorfarmerdesigner
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Sir James Dyson is a British inventor, industrial designer, farmer, and business magnate who founded Dyson. 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 UK, with an estimated net worth of £23 billion.
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Ian Dury
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- film actorsinger-songwriteractorsingerpainter
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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 Ian Dury and the Blockheads and previously Kilburn and the High Roads.
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Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
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- sculptoraristocratpainterartist
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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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- painterwatercoloristgraphic artistvisual artistillustrator
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Henry Spencer Moore 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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- photographerconceptual artistinstallation artistdrawervideo artist
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Tracey Karima Emin 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. She specialises in the camera obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras.
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Mary Martin
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- television actorstage actorsingerfilm actormusician
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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 plannerarchitectvisual artist
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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 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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- painterphotographerdrawerartistsculptor
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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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- designerfilm directorgraphic designerphotographer
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Storm Elvin Thorgerson was an English graphic designer 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, Wishbone Ash, Phish, Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Al Stewart, Scorpions, UFO, Peter Gabriel, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Yes, Kansas, Dream Theater, Muse, Audioslave, the Mars Volta, The Cranberries, Helloween, Ween, Shpongle and Catherine Wheel.
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Sylvia Pankhurst
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1904-1906
- Occupations
- women's rights activistoil painterjournalistanti-imperialisteditor
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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 advocate of workers' control, she rejected the Leninist party line and criticised the Bolshevik dictatorship.
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Peter Blake
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- painterphotographergraphic artistdrawerdesigner
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Sir Peter Thomas Blake 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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- film directorscreenwriteractordirector
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Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker.
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Peter Schreyer
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- international forum participantengineer
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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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Zandra Rhodes
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- fashion designerdesigner
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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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Roger Dean
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- designerpainterarchitectillustrator
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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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- designersculptorarchitectartist
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Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, 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 artisans from a studio and workshop in King's Cross, London.
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Sönke Wortmann
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- film directorscreenwriterassociation football playeractorfilm producer
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Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer.
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John Foxx
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- paintercomposerlecturergraphic artistgraphic designer
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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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David Adjaye
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- international forum participantarchitectfurniture designer
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Sir David Frank Adjaye is a Ghanaian-British architect. He is known for having 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 is the recipient of 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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Una O'Connor
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- film actorstage 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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Uday Shankar
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- dancerfilm directorscreenwriterchoreographeractor
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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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Oswald Chambers
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- theologianwriter
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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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- fashion designerwriter
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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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Frank Auerbach
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- graphic designerpainterdrawer
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Frank Helmut Auerbach is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
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Ian Callum
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- car designerengineer
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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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Andrea Wulf
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- historianwritergraphic novelistopinion journalistbiographer
- Biography
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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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- designermodistedressmaker
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Philip Anthony Treacy 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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Steve Mackey
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- guitaristmusicianrecord producerbassistcomposer
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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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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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Jozef Kabaň
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- designerengineer
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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 fired by 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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Eric Ravilious
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- graphic designerpainterwood engraverillustrator
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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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Kate Greenaway
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- writerpainterartistchildren's writerillustrator
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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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Erdem Moralıoğlu
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- fashion designer
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Erdem Moralıoğlu is a British fashion designer.
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Gorden Wagener
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- car designerdesigner
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Gorden Wagener is a German car designer, and is the chief design officer for Mercedes-Benz Group AG.
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Gerry McGovern
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- car designer
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Gerard Gabriel McGovern, 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
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- designerengineer
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Jasper Morrison 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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David Gentleman
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- artistwriterxylographerlithographerdesigner
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David William Gentleman is an English artist. He studied art and painting at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.
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Albert Watson
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- fashion photographerphotographer
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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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Victor Ambrus
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1960
- Occupations
- visual artistillustrator
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Victor Ambrus 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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Peter Sís
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- painterwriteranimatorgraphic artistfilm director
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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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Hubert von Herkomer
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- sculptorpoetpainteruniversity teacher
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Sir Hubert von Herkomer 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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Stephen Goldblatt
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- film directorcinematographer
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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
- sculptortranslatorwriter
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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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Geeta Kapur
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- art historianartist
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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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Alice Temperley
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- creative directorfashion designer
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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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Idris Khan
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- photographervisual artistartistsculptorvideo artist
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Idris Khan OBE is a British artist based in London.
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Edward Bawden
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- drawerdesignerartistart educatorwar artist
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Edward Bawden, 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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Helen Allingham
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- painterillustrator
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Helen Allingham was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era.
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Frank Bowling
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- paintervisual artist
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Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling, known as Frank Bowling, is a British artist who was born in British Guiana. He is particularly renowned for his large-scale, abstract "Map" paintings, which relate to abstract expressionism, colour field painting and lyrical abstraction. Bowling has been described as "one of Britain’s greatest living abstract painters", as "one of the most distinguished black artists to emerge from post-war British art schools" and as a "modern master". British cultural critic and theorist Stuart Hall situates Bowling’s career within a first generation, or “wave” of post-war, Black-British art, one characterised by postwar politics and British decolonisation. He is the first black artist to be elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Lucienne Day
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- designertextile designer
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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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- university teacherdrawerartistjewelry designersculptor
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Richard Deacon is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.
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Billy Apple
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- Studied in 1959-1962
- Occupations
- paintersculptorconceptual artist
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Billy Apple 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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Jonathan Barnbrook
- Occupations
- designergraphic designer
- 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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Edward Burra
- Occupations
- graphic artistpainterdrawerprinter
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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
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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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Rose Wylie
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Rose Wylie is a British painter. She is an artist known for creating large paintings on unprimed canvas.
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Gavin Turk
- Occupations
- printmakerartistpainterphotographerconceptual artist
- 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
- novelistautobiographerplaywrightwriterbiographer
- 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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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, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021.
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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
- industrial designerdesignervisual artistfurniture designer
- Biography
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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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Helen Escobedo
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistpaintercurator
- 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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Hamish Fulton
- Occupations
- conceptual artistphotographerillustratorland 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 was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.
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Elizabeth Forbes
- Occupations
- painter
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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
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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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David Mach
- Occupations
- sculptorinstallation artistartist
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David Mach 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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Charles Sargeant Jagger
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
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Charles Sargeant Jagger 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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Joseph Rykwert
- Occupations
- architectarchitectural theoreticianarchitectural historianarchitecture critic
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Joseph Rykwert CBE is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America. He has 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 his books have been translated into several languages.
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Jeffrey Gibson
- Occupations
- painterinstallation artistsculptor
- Biography
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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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Christopher Raeburn
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Christopher Raeburn is a British fashion designer, known for reworking surplus fabrics and garments to create menswear, womenswear and accessories.
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Hew Locke
- Occupations
- paintersculptorvisual artist
- Biography
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Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000 he won a Paul Hamlyn Award and the EASTinternational Award. He grew up in Guyana, but lived most of his adult life in London.
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Joe Tilson
- Occupations
- painterprintmakergraphic artistdrawersculptor
- Biography
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Joseph Charles Tilson 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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Thomas Thwaites
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Enrolled in the Royal College of Art
- In 2009 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- designerwriter
- 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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Clare Shenstone
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- 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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James Jebusa Shannon
- Occupations
- paintervisual artist
- Biography
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon was an Anglo-American artist.
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Christopher Williams
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Christopher David Williams was a Welsh artist.
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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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Mary Fraser Tytler
- Occupations
- painterceramicistarchitect
- Biography
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Mary Seton Fraser Tytler was a symbolist craftswoman, designer and social reformer.
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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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Mark Adams
- Occupations
- designercar designerengineer
- 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 makerpainteractivistcomedian
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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. Thom has also made numerous appearances on British television, notably an interview on Russell Howard's Good News which has garnered more than 995,000 YouTube views as of August 2019, and was reported on by The Independent and Metro newspapers.
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Mortimer Menpes
- Occupations
- painterdrawerillustratoretcher
- Biography
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Mortimer Luddington Menpes was an Australian-born British painter, author, printmaker and illustrator.
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Thomas Huber
- Occupations
- conceptual artistpainterperformance artistprintmakerinstallation 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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Edward Allington
- Occupations
- sculptorpainter
- 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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Shezad Dawood
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Shezad Dawood is an artist born and based in London.
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Mary Gillick
- Occupations
- sculptormedalist
- Biography
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Mary Gaskell Gillick 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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Sin Wai Kin
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Sin Wai Kin is a Canadian visual artist who uses "speculative fiction within drag performance, moving image, writing and print to refigure attitudes towards gender, sexuality and historical discourses of identity." They are known for their immersive performance art and drag artistry, a practice which they use to "interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification."
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Dexter Dalwood
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Dexter Dalwood is a British artist based in London.
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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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Barbara Jones
- Occupations
- painterwriterillustrator
- 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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Anthea Hamilton
- Occupations
- painterinstallation artistvisual artist
- Biography
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Anthea Hamilton is a British artist who graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University (Leeds Beckett University) and the Royal College of Art and was one of four shortlisted for the 2016 Turner Prize. Hamilton was responsible for the show's most popular exhibit Project for a Door (After Gaetano Pesce) depicting a doorway consisting of large naked buttocks which reworks a proposal by Italian architect Caetano Pesci, dating from the early 1970s. She is known for creating strange and surreal artworks and large-scale installations.
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Ezra Orion
- Occupations
- sculptoreducatorpoet
- Biography
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Ezra Orion was an Israeli sculptor.
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Eric Parry
- Occupations
- designeruniversity teacherarchitect
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Eric Owen Parry 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.
