- David Hockney
David Hockney, CH, RA, (born July 9, 1937) is an English artist, based in Los Angeles, California, United States. An important contributor to the British Pop Art of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
- Peter Blake
Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born June 25, 1932, in Dartford, Kent) is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.
- Henry Moore
Sir Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA, (30 July 1898 - 31 August 1986) was a British artist and sculptor. The son of a mining engineer, born in the Yorkshire town of Castleford, Moore became well known for his larger-scale abstract cast bronze and carved marble sculptures. Substantially supported by the British art establishment, Moore helped to introduce a particular form of modernism into the United Kingdom.
- Frank Auerbach
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a German-born British painter. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of mainly female models, or scenes around London, especially Camden Town, where his studio is located.
- Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July, 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). She has succeeded in equalling, if not surpassing, Damien Hirst among the YBAs in terms of notoriety among the general public. A drunken outburst on a Channel 4 TV discussion, and "My Bed" — an installation in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition, …
- Chris Ofili
A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Manchester born Chris Ofili came to prominence in the early 1990s with his densely orchestrated paintings. He won the Turner prize in 1998 and has exhibited in many international institutions over the past decade. He was selected to represent Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in June 2003 where he presented his ambitious exhibition Within Reach. Ofili's paintings exalt in the power of colour, decoration and sexuality.
- Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk (born 1967) is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people. He was born in Guildford, near London, and went to the Royal College of Art. However, in 1991, the tutors refused to give him the final degree because of his show, called "Cave", which consisted of a whitewashed studio space, …
- Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (January 10, 1903 - May 20, 1975, christened Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth) was a major British sculptor and artist of the twentieth century. Although not as renowned, she is generally considered as great a sculptor as her contemporary and friend Henry Moore. Hepworth was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, attended Wakefield Girls High School, and studied at the Leeds School of Art (where she met Moore) and the Royal College of Art.
- Ridley Scott
Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is a English film director and producer.
- R. B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (born October 29, 1932) is an American-born artist. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and studied at Cooper Union in New York City and, after a short stint in the United States Army, at The Ruskin (1958-59) and the Royal College of Art (1959-61) in London. He subsequently settled in England, and through the 1960s taught at the Ealing Art College, the Camberwell School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991.
- James Dyson
Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth is said to be just over £1 billion (about $2 billion)
- Len Deighton
Leonard Cyril Deighton (born February 18, 1929, Marylebone, London) is a British historian and author of spy fiction and historical novels. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. His first four novels featured an anonymous anti-hero, named "Harry Palmer" in the films, and portrayed by Michael Caine. The first trilogy of his "Bernard Samson" novel series was made into a twelve-part television series by Granada Television in 1988, shown only once, …
- Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a leading 20th century British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses and was instrumental in the design and building of New Delhi (known as "Lutyens' Delhi"). He was born and died in London. He was named after a friend of his father's, the painter and sculptor, Edwin Landseer.
- Mary Martin
Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 - November 3, 1990) born in Weatherford, Texas, was a Tony Award winning American star of (mainly stage) musicals. Among the roles she originated were Nellie Forbush in "South Pacific" and Maria in "The Sound of Music". She was also a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989.
- Mary Martin
Mary Martin (born 16 January 1907, Folkestone; died 9 October 1969, London) was a British sculptor best known for her work with her husband Kenneth Martin. Mary Blanford studied at Goldsmiths College, London in 1925–9 and at the Royal College of Art 1929–32 where she met and married Kenneth Martin in 1930. Exhibited at the A.I.A. from 1934, mainly as a still-life and landscape painter, using her maiden name, Mary Balmford.
- Ian Dury
Ian Dury (May 12, 1942 - March 27, 2000) was an English rock and roll singer, songwriter, and bandleader who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. He is best known as founder and lead singer of the British band Ian Dury and the Blockheads, though he began his musical career in pub-rock act Kilburn and the High Roads.
- Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips is an English artist who is one of the pioneers of the Pop Art movement. His work ranges from oils on canvas to multi-media compositions and collages to sculptures and architecture. As one of the originators of Pop Art, Peter got his start at the Royal College of Art with his fellow students David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj and others of the British Pop Art Movement. When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship he moved to New York, …
- Tony Cragg
Cragg was born in Liverpool ; following a period of work as a laboratory technician he first studied art on the foundation course at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design , Cheltenham and then at the Wimbledon School of Art 1969-1973. During this period he was taught by Roger Ackling , who introduced him to the sculptors Richard Long and Bill Woodrow . He completed his studies at Royal College of Art 1973-1977 where he was a contemporary of Richard Wentworth .
- Moray Callum
Moray Callum (1958-) is an automobile designer from Scotland, currently design director for Ford's North American brands' passenger cars. He is the younger brother of Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum.
- Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon CBE (born 15 August 1949) is a British sculptor. Born in Bangor in Wales, Deacon was educated at Plymouth College and then studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, St Martin's School of Art in London and the Royal College of Art, also in London. He left the Royal College in 1977, and went on to study part time at the Chelsea School of Art. Deacon's first one man show came in 1978 in Brixton.
- Quentin Blake
Quentin Blake was born in 1932 and he has drawn ever since he can remember. His first drawing was published in a magazine for adults called 'Punch' when he was only 16. Later, he went to Downing College, Cambridge where he read English and after that he did a training course to teach at the University of London. This was followed by a part-time course at Chelsea Art School.
- Patrick Caulfield
Patrick Caulfield, CBE (30 January, 1936 - 29 September, 2005) was an English painter and printmaker known for his bold pop art canvases. Caulfield studied at the Chelsea School of Art in the late 1950s, and at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1963, where his fellow pupils included David Hockney and R. B. Kitaj. After he left he returned to Chelsea as a teacher. In 1964 he exhibited at the "New Generation" show at London's Whitechapel Gallery, …
- Tony Scott
Tony Scott (born July 21, 1944) is an English film director. He is the brother of director Ridley Scott.
- Richard Wentworth
Richard Wentworth (born Samoa 1947) is a British Artist, curator and teacher currently based at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. Wentworth studied at Hornsey College of Art in North London from 1965 and then at the Royal College of Art where he was a contemporary of Bill Woodrow and Tony Cragg. As a student Wentworth worked for Henry Moore and at the gallery owned by Robert Fraser and claims that Yoko Ono took his bicycle for a piece of work and has never reimbursed him.
- Anton Furst
Anton Furst (May 6, 1944 as Anthony Francis Furst - November 24, 1991) was a distinguished production designer who won an Oscar for designing the Batmobile and the "noirish" nightmare version of Gotham City in Tim Burton's "Batman" (1989). Trained at the Royal College of Art, London, he gained high praise for his work on Neil Jordan's "The Company of Wolves" (1984). Furst went on to create convincing Vietnam War settings, without leaving England, …
- Christopher Bailey
Christopher Bailey is Design Director of the largest British luxury goods brand, Burberry. Born in 1971, Bailey graduated from the BA Fashion Design course at The University of Westminster in 1990, before going on to attend London's Royal College of Art, graduating with a Masters in Fashion in 1994. Moving to New York, he worked for Donna Karan before becoming Senior Designer for Gucci womenswear in 1996.
- Christopher Bailey
Christopher Bailey is a lecturer of English at the University of Brighton and is an occasional screenwriter for television. He wrote the script for the "Doctor Who" serial "Kinda" in 1982. This script drew heavily on his own Buddhist faith and incorporated classic Buddhist terms such as "dukkha", "panna", "karuna", "devaloka" and "Mara" — indeed, "the Mara" was the name of the villain of the piece.
- Alan Fletcher
Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by "The Daily Telegraph" as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific".
- John Piper
John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (December 13, 1903 – June 28, 1992) was a well-known 20th century English painter and printmaker who lived for many years at Fawley Bottom near Henley-on-Thames.
- Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born April 24, 1931 in London) is an English painter who is one of the foremost proponents of op art, art that exploits the fallibility of the human eye. Bridget was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College; she studied art first at Goldsmiths College and later at the Royal College of Art, where her fellow students included artists Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. She left college early to look after her ailing father, …
- Charles Sargeant Jagger
Charles Sargeant Jagger MC (1885-1934) 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, including the Memorial for First Battle of Ypres at Horse Guards Parade, the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner and the Great Western Railway War Memorial in Paddington Railway Station, all in London.
- Alison Wilding
Alison Wilding (born July 7, 1948) is an English sculptor. Born in Blackburn in Lancashire, Wilding studied at the Nottingham College of Art, the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in Chislehurst and, from 1970 to 1973, the Royal College of Art in London. She rose to prominence around the late 1970s, about the same time as Richard Deacon, Tony Cragg, Bill Woodrow and others.
- Jasper Morrison
Jasper Morrison is an English product and furniture designer. Morrison was born in London, England but brought up in New York, USA. He was educated at Bryanston School. He received a Bachelor of Design degree from Kingston Polytecnic Design School in 1982 and a Masters degree in Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1985. He also studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, formerly the Hochschule der Künste (HdK).
- Kam Tang
Kam Tang is an illustrator living and working in Brixton, London. After earning his degree from the University of Brighton he went on to do a masters at the Royal College of Art. Since graduating he has worked as a freelance creative. His first major commission was for GTF (Graphic Thought Facility), who called upon him to illustrate the journey from start to finish of a Royal College of Art student for the RCA prospectus.
- Eric Ravilious
Eric Ravilious (22 July 1903 - November 1942) was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver.
- Ian Callum
Commenting on the award Ian Callum said: -To gain such recognition from fellow members of the design community is an enormous privilege for me, particularly from a faculty that is not directly involved in the car business. This distinction is a testament to the value of car design and the role that car designers play in the motoring industry.
- Peter Horbury
Peter Horbury is a car designer currently in charge of all design for the North American Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury brands. He was named UK magazine Autocar’s Designer of the Year in 1998 and during his 30+year career has been actively involved in the design of more than 50 cars as well as trucks, buses and motorcycles.
- Dhruva Mistry
Dhruva Mistry, (b 1957) is a sculptor, born in Kanjari, Gujarat, India and who, having worked in Great Britain between 1981 and 1997, returned to Vadodara. He studied at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in Vadodara from 1974 to 1981 then the Royal College of Art in London from 1981 to 1983 on a British Council Scholarship. He is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts (1991) and Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (1993).
- Susan Weber Soros
Susan Weber Soros (born 1954, New York City, USA) is the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the decorative arts, design, and culture in New York City. She was married to George Soros. Susan Weber was born in Brooklyn and studied at Barnard College, New York, the Parsons School of Design, New York and the Royal College of Art where she gained her PhD in 1998 with a thesis on the furniture of E.W. Godwin.
- David Adjaye
David Adjaye is recognised as one of the leading young architects of his generation in the UK. He formed a partnership in 1994 and quickly built a reputation as an architect with an artistry vision. The architectural community and the wider public have a high regard for his bespoke design, ingenious use of materials, and showcasing light. He reformed his studio in 2000 as Adjaye/Associates and he has gone on to win a number of prestigious commissions.