List of RWA Academicians

This is a partial list of Royal West of England Academicians also known as RWA Academicians. The academicians of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), the oldest public art gallery in Bristol^[1] and the UK’s only regional Royal Academy of Art.^[2]

Royal West of England Academy of Art

Academicians have post-nominals: RWA, PRWA, PPRWA, VPRWA or HonRWA (depending on their membership type). A full list is available on the web pages of the RWA's website.^[3]

Note. Associate RWA membership has been discontinued and successful candidates are elected directly to full RWA Academician status.

List of Academicians of the Royal West of England Academy of Art (RWA)

Name	Elected ARWA	Elected RWA	Elected HonRWA	Served as VPRWA	Served as PRWA	Retired to PPRA	Notes
Lidija Antanasijevic
Diana Armfield							Married to Bernard Dunstan PPRWA RA
Malcolm Ashman
Peter Amos
Lucy Austin
Becky Buchanan
Bronwen Bradshaw
Basil Beattie
Clive Blackmore
Elizabeth Blackadder
Iain Biggs
Denis Baxter
Derek Balmer
David Backhouse
Louise Balaam
Frank Bowling			2021
Jon Buck
James Bruges
June Berry
James Beale
John Butler
Olwyn Bowey
Martin Bentham
Nicola Bealing
Vera Boele-Keimer
Peter Blake
Ian Chamberlain		2022
Peter Clegg
Eileen Cooper			2022
Dorcas Casey
Beth Carter
Amanda Chambers
Denis Curry
Dallas Collins
Gerald Cains	1970	1978
Jessica Cooper
Jane Carpanini
Nigel Casseldine
David Carpanini
P J Crook
Yvonne Crossley
Thomas Coates
Trevor Challinor
Susan Caines
Ros Cuthbert
Chris Dunseath
Adelaide Damoah		2019					In 2019, Damoah became the first black artist to be elected an academician of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA).
Katie Davies
Leslie Glenn Damhus
Patrick Daw
Philomena Davidson							In 1990 Davidson became the Royal Society of Sculptors first female President, a post she held for six years.
Richard Dack
Sara Dudman
Susan Derges
Toni Davey
Seyed Edalatpour
Anthony Eyton							Anthony Eyton retired as an active member of the RWA in December 2004, becoming an RWA (Emeritus).
Karen Edwards
John Eaves
Gareth Edwards
Wendy Elia
Gareth Fisher			2022				Elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy in 2022. Ex officio HonRWA.
George Ferguson
Peter Ford
Peter Folkes
Susan Foord
Terry Flaxton
Ros Ford
Anna Gillespie
Christopher Glanville
Frances Gynn
Paul Gough
Sarah Gillespie
Stewart Geddes
Simon Garden
Ashley Hold
Andrew Hardwick
Elizabeth Hunter
John Huggins
Jennifer Harris
Moira Huntly
Ken Howard
Stephen Hoskins
Michael Hitchings
Tim Harrisson
Trevor Haddrell
Simon Hitchens
David Inshaw
Donald Insall
Sax Impey
Luke Jerram			2020
Judith Jones
Kurt Jackson
Robert Jennison
Stephen Jacobson
Alan Kingsbury
Janette Kerr
Nicky Knowles
Amy Krauss							Painter and Potter
Juliette Losq
Angela Lizon
Allan Laycock
Debbie Locke
Cynthia Lear
Margaret Lovell
Jason Lane
Richard Long			2000				Former RWA student, who 'made a plaster path through the college studio to “explore relative movement, using the body as a moving object over still things”...But the RWA staff were less than impressed and, after informing his parents that their son was “mad”, promptly expelled him'.[4] Elected HonRWA in 2000
Sonia Lawson			2005
Warren & Mosley							Artist and Architect Collaboration comprising Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley
Bridget McCrum
Andrew Muñoz
Alice Mumford
Ian Middleton
John Maine
Will Maw
Lawrence Nash
Rachael Nee
Midge Naylor
Camilla Nock
Martin Parr
Jane Pascoe
Ione Parkin
John Palmer
Dione Page
Giles Penny
Charlotte Price
Mark Prescott
Michael Porter
Sandra Porter
Howard Phipps
Simon Quadrat
Tom Russell
Anne Rothenstein
Carol Robertson
Fiona Robinson
Mike Richards
Maxine Relton
Peter Randall-Page
Nik Ramage
Rosalind Robinson
Karl Singporewala		2022					Architect
Rebecca Salter
Tim Shaw
Carl Swanson
Christopher Shurrock
Ann Scampton
Diana Bourdon Smith
Emma Stibbon
Howard Silverman
Dawn Sidoli
Laurie Steen
Terry Setch
Barrington Tabb
George Tute
Elizabeth Turrell
Paul Thirkell
John Taulbut
Nicholas Turner
Patricia Volk
Susan Whale
Amanda Wallwork
Gordon Ward
Janet Watson
Deborah Westmancoat
Lucy Willis
Glo Williams
Anthony Whishaw
Lisa Wright
Hamish Young

See also

• List of Royal Academicians

References

1. "Bristol's RWA to undergo £3.8m restoration". BBC News. 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023.
2. "Royal West of England Academy". Own Art. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023.
3. "RWA Academicians". Bristol: Royal West of England Academy of Arts.
4. Hudson, Mark (15 November 2022). "'I've drunk from every river on Dartmoor': land artist Richard Long on changing the face of art". Guardian. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023.

External

• Royal West of England Academy (RWA) — Official Website
• Paintings at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), on the Art UK site