25 Notable alumni of
University for the Creative Arts
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The University for the Creative Arts is 1534th in the world, 530th in Europe, and 98th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 25 notable alumni from the University for the Creative Arts sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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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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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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Edd Gould
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- animatortelevision producervoice actorYouTuber
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Edward Duncan Ernest "Edd" Gould was a British animator, artist, and voice actor. He was best known for creating Eddsworld, a media franchise consisting of flash animations and web comics featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and others. After Gould's death in 2012, production of Eddsworld was passed on to Ridgewell who directed a run of further episodes under the title of Eddsworld: Legacy. Following Ridgewell's departure from the series in 2016, it was passed to Hargreaves and Gould's family, returning in 2020 as Eddsworld Beyond.
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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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Billy Childish
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- guitaristpainterpoetwritercomposer
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Billy Childish is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer, and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing, and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk, and surf, and releasing more than 100 albums.
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Nymphia Wind
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- costume designdrag queen
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Leo Tsao, known professionally as Nymphia Wind (Chinese: 妮妃雅‧瘋), is a Taiwanese-American drag performer and dressmaker. In 2024, Nymphia Wind was crowned the winner of season 16 of RuPaul's Drag Race, becoming the first East Asian winner of the franchise.
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Michaël Dudok de Wit
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- directorscreenwriterwriterfilm directorpainter
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Michaël Dudok de Wit is a Dutch animator, director and illustrator based in London. He won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Father and Daughter (2000) and was nominated in the same category for The Monk and the Fish (1994) as well as for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Red Turtle (2016).
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Linda Barker
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- television presenter
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Linda Barker is an English interior designer and television presenter.
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Nikita Gill
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- poet
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Nikita Gill is an Irish-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England. She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry and is one of the most followed poets on Instagram.
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Justina Vail Evans
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- actorfilm actor
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Justina Vail Evans, previously credited as Justina Vail, is a British actress, life coach, author and hypnotherapist.
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Lasse Gjertsen
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- animatormusicianfilm producerYouTubertelevision producer
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Lasse Gjertsen is a Norwegian animator, musician, and videographer. He is best known for his short pieces "Hyperactive" and "Amateur", big hits in the early years of YouTube, which strung together short clips of video to create a unique form of video akin to stop-motion animation. His "Hyperactive" video has over 8.9 million views and his "Amateur" video has over 16 million views.
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Martin Lambie-Nairn
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- animatortelevision producergraphic designertelevision director
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Martin John Lambie-Nairn was an English designer. He was the founder of his branding agency Lambie-Nairn and was the creative director of branding agency ML-N. He is recognised for having redefined television brand identity design, being the first to embrace computer technologies to apply branding to screen-based media.
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Lily Madigan
- Years
- 1998-.. (age 27)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lily Madigan is an activist within the British Labour Party. She was the first openly trans woman to hold the position of Constituency Labour Party Women's Officer, having been elected in November 2017 by the Labour Party in the constituency Rochester and Strood. Madigan's election as a Women's Officer was controversial within the Labour Party. A complaint by Madigan alleging transphobia against women's officer Anne Ruzylo was not upheld, but led Ruzylo to stand down. In 2019, Madigan was elected the national women's officer for Labour Students.
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Charles Thomson
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- photographerpainterpoetofficial
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Charles Thomson is an English artist, poet and photographer. In the early 1980s he was a member of The Medway Poets. In 1999 he named and co-founded the Stuckists art movement with Billy Childish. He has curated Stuckist shows, organised demonstrations against the Turner Prize, run an art gallery, stood for parliament and reported Charles Saatchi to the OFT. He is frequently quoted in the media as an opponent of conceptual art. He was briefly married to artist Stella Vine.
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Jason Pomeroy
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- architect
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Jason Pomeroy is an architect, academic and author. He is the founder of sustainable design firm Pomeroy Studio and sustainable educator Pomeroy Academy.
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Humphrey Ocean
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- painter
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Humphrey Ocean RA is a contemporary British painter.
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Chris Shepherd
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- animatorfilm directorscreenwriter
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Chris Shepherd is a double BAFTA nominated British television/film writer, graphic novelist and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool in 1967, he is known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature.
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Philip Absolon
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- painter
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Philip Absolon is a British artist and a founder member of the Stuckists art group, exhibiting in the group shows, including The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery in 2004, and taking part in Stuckist demonstrations against the Turner Prize. He has had long-term unemployment problems, depicted in his work with imagery of skeletons; his other main subject is cats, which he studies and depicts in motion.
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Bill Lewis
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- poetpainter
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William Lewis is an English artist, story-teller, poet and mythographer. He was a founder-member of The Medway Poets and of the Stuckists art group.
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Richard Spare
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- paintersculptoretcherprintmaker
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Richard John Spare is a British artist and master printmaker known primarily for his drypoints, etchings and oil paintings. He is based in London.
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Charles Williams
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- painter
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Charles Williams is a British artist. He is a founding member of the Stuckist art group and a member of the New English Art Club.
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Ken Grant
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- photographer
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Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area. He is a lecturer in the MFA photography course at the University of Ulster.
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Tamsyn Challenger
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- conceptual artistvisual artist
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Tamsyn Challenger is a British artist, curator and lecturer.
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Wana Udobang
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Nigeria - Occupations
- filmmakerpoetfreelance journalist
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Wana Udobang, also known as Wana Wana, is a Nigerian writer, poet, journalist, filmmaker, and television personality. Her work has appeared on the BBC, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, BellaNaija, and The Guardian, She has been described as "one of the biggest champions of our new spoken word renaissance is taking a leap into the void."
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Jayson Lilley
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United Kingdom - Occupations
- contemporary artist
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Jayson Lilley is a contemporary British artist recognised for producing paintings of urban scenes and iconic architecture of the United Kingdom. Lilley was born in Plymouth, Devon and grew up in the small coastal village of Wembury.
