25 Notable alumni of
University for the Creative Arts
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The University for the Creative Arts is 1528th in the world, 523rd in Europe, and 97th 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
- Occupations
- 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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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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Edd Gould
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- YouTubervoice actortelevision produceranimator
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Edward Duncan Ernest 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 and later Hargreaves.
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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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Billy Childish
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- composerwriterpoetpainterguitarist
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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 Pop Rivets, 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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Michaël Dudok de Wit
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- film directorwriterscreenwriterdirectorillustrator
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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 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Red Turtle (2016).
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Linda Barker
- Occupations
- 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 a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England. She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry. Gill uses social media to engage her audience and she has over 650,000 followers on Instagram, one of the most popular poets on the platform.
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Justina Vail Evans
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- film actoractor
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Justina Vail Evans is a British actress, life coach, author and hypnotherapist.
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Lasse Gjertsen
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- YouTuberfilm producermusiciananimatorfilm director
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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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- graphic designertelevision produceranimatortelevision 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 26)
- Occupations
- politician
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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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Mary Tourtel
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- comics artistcartoonistwriterillustrator
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Mary Tourtel was a British artist and creator of the comic strip Rupert Bear. Her works have sold 50 million copies internationally.
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Charles Thomson
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- poetpainterphotographerofficial
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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, academicand 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 is a contemporary British painter.
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Chris Shepherd
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- film directoranimatorscreenwriter
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Chris Shepherd is a double BAFTA nominated television/film writer and director. Born in Anfield, Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1967. He is mainly 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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- painterpoet
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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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- sculptorpainterprintmakeretcher
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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
- Occupations
- 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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- visual artistconceptual 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
- freelance journalistfilmmakerpoet
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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.
