List of alumni of the Royal College of Art

The following is a list of alumni of the Royal College of Art, London, and of its predecessor schools before 1896: the Government School of Design or Metropolitan School of Design, the Normal Training School of Art and the National Art Training School.

Contents: 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z
• See also

A

• Kristian Aadnevik, fashion designer
• Faisal Abdu'allah, printmaker
• Gerald Abramovitz
• M. R. Acharekar, painter, art director
• Jane Ackroyd, sculptor
• Norman Ackroyd
• Mark Adams (designer)
• David Adjaye, architect
• Edgar Ainsworth (artist)
• Griselda Allan
• Charlie Allen (designer)
• Kathleen Allen
• W. H. Allen
• Anthea Alley
• Helen Allingham, painter
• Edward Allington
• Victor Ambrus, illustrator
• Hurvin Anderson
• Kay Anderson
• Marie Angel (artist)
• Peggy Angus
• Pascal Anson
• Lorenzo Apicella
• Leonard Appelbee, painter
• Billy Apple, artist and designer
• Val Archer, painter
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
• Audrey Arnott
• Pamela Ascherson
• Ruth Spencer Aspden
• Katerina Athanasopoulou, film maker and animation artist
• Jeremy Atherton Lin, writer
• Frank Auerbach, painter
• Robert Austin (artist)
• Maxwell Ayrton, architect

B

• Marjorie May Bacon
• Joseph Ridgard Bagshawe
• Fred Baier
• Christopher Bailey (fashion designer)
• Alfred Lys Baldry
• Barbara Banister
• Tom Barker (designer)
• Jonathan Barnbrook, typographer and graphic designer
• Brian Barnes (artist)
• Glenys Barton
• Michael Bartlett
• Pauline Baumann
• Lewis Baumer
• Edward Bawden
• Arlon Bayliss, visual artist
• John Beard (artist)
• Cressida Bell, textile designer
• Peter Bellamy
• John Bellany
• Sebastian Bergne, industrial designer
• Christine Berrie, illustrator
• Arthur Berry (playwright)
• Clara Billing, sculptor
• Dora Billington
• Helen Binyon
• Henry Bird, muralist
• Sutapa Biswas
• David Blackburn (artist), landscape artist
• William Kay Blacklock
• Doris Blair
• Peter Blake, painter
• Quentin Blake, cartoonist, author and illustrator
• Douglas Bliss
• Eric Boman, photographer
• Tord Boontje industrial designer
• Allen Boothroyd, industrial designer
• Nicholas Borden, painter
• Deirdre Borlase, painter
• Derek Boshier, painter
• Pauline Boty
• Doris Boulton-Maude
• Denis Bowen
• Moya Bowler
• Frank Bowling, painter
• William Bowyer (artist)
• Alan Boyson, muralist
• Boyd Webb
• John Bratby
• Kathleen Bridle
• John Frederick Brill
• Alison Britton
• Iris Brooke
• Jason Brooks (illustrator)
• Frederick Brown (artist)
• Percy Brown (art historian)
• Ralph Brown (sculptor)
• Sheilagh Brown, fashion designer
• William Kellock Brown, sculptor
• Kathleen Browne (artist)
• John Brunsdon
• Kenneth Budd
• John Bunting (sculptor)
• Victor Burgin, 1986 Turner Prize nominee
• Edward Burra
• James Butler (artist)

C

• Charles William Cain, artist
• Joyce W. Cairns
• Ian Callum
• Moray Callum
• Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
• David Carpanini, painter and printmaker
• Henry Carr, painter
• George Bertram Carter
• Michelle Cartlidge, illustrator
• James Castle (sculptor)
• Catherine Dean (artist)
• Patrick Caulfield, 1987 Turner Prize nominee
• Joseph Hermon Cawthra, sculptor
• George Chakravarthi, artist
• Jack Bridger Chalker, painter
• Catherine Chalmers
• Lu Chao
• Charles Chaplin (artist)
• Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2003 Turner Prize nominees
• Malvina Cheek, artist
• Bernard Cheese
• Marvin Gaye Chetwynd
• Gordon Cheung
• Emma Chichester Clark
• Madeleine Child
• Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia, 1990–1997
• John Clappison, ceramic and glass designer
• Ossie Clark, fashion designer
• Bob Carlos Clarke
• Sir George Clausen, painter
• Benjamin Clemens, sculptor
• Clarice Cliff, ceramic designer, modeller and sculptor
• Sue Coe, political artist
• Ernest A. Cole, sculptor and printmaker
• Freda Coleborn
• Cecil Collins
• Elisabeth Collins
• Richard Cook, painter
• Jean Cooke, artist
• May Louise Greville Cooksey, painter
• Eileen Cooper
• Susie Cooper, ceramic designer
• Marcus Cornish
• Lucy Cousins
• Jack Coutu, printmaker and sculptor
• Jenny Cowern
• Raymond Teague Cowern
• Hilda Cowham
• Raymond Coxon, painter
• Roderick Coyne, sculptor
• Stuart Craig, production designer
• Tony Cragg, 1988 Turner Prize winner
• Andrew Cranston
• Reed Crawford
• Keith Critchlow
• Stella Rebecca Crofts
• Edward Cronshaw
• Neisha Crosland, textile designer
• Victoria Crowe
• Robert Crowther (author), children's book author and paper engineer
• Bill Culbert, painter, sculptor, photographer
• Frederick Cuming (artist)
• Michael Cumming, director, filmmaker
• Charles Cundall, war artist

D

• Anna Dabis
• Dexter Dalwood
• Jill Daniels
• Leonard Daniels
• Adam Dant, 2002 Jerwood Prize winner
• Frances Darlington
• Leslie Davenport, artist and teacher
• Alki David
• Shezad Dawood
• David Dawson (painter)
• Lucienne Day
• Robin Day (designer)
• Richard Deacon, sculptor, 1987 Turner Prize winner
• Roger Dean (artist)
• Len Deighton, historian and author
• Elise D'Elboux
• Thomas Derrick (artist)
• Mukul Dey, painter, engraver
• Ted Dicks
• Emilia, Lady Dilke, art historian
• Jane Dillon, designer and artist
• Emmy Dinkel-Keet
• Austin Dobson, poet
• Christopher Dresser, designer
• Conrad Dressler, sculptor and potter
• Lilian Dring
• Barry Driscoll
• William Harold Dudley
• Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
• Evelyn Dunbar, artist
• Jacqueline Durran
• Ian Dury, musician, singer
• James Dyson, designer

E

• Harry Eccleston
• Mildred Eldridge
• Nabil El-Nayal
• Frederick Vincent Ellis
• Tom Ellis (architect)
• David Emanuel (fashion designer)
• Joseph Emberton
• Benoit Pierre Emery, fashion designer
• Tracey Emin, artist, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
• Nora England
• Grace English
• Arthur John Ensor, artist and industrial designer
• Helen Escobedo
• Vincent Evans

F

• Wilfred Fairclough
• Steve Fairnie
• Sara Fanelli
• Stephen Farthing
• Cathie Felstead, illustrator
• Sir Luke Fildes, painter
• Anthony Finkelstein
• Archie Fisher (painter)
• Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
• Marion Foale, fashion designer
• Juan Fontanive
• Elizabeth Forbes (artist)
• Michael Foreman (author/illustrator)
• Gordon Forsyth
• John Foxx
• Barnett Freedman
• Henry Charles Innes Fripp, artist, stained glass maker, illustrator
• Elizabeth Fritsch, ceramic artist, potter
• George Fullard
• Ron Fuller (artist)
• Hamish Fulton
• Holly Fulton
• John Furnival (1933–2020), poet
• Anton Furst, production designer

G

• Jeremy Gardiner
• Margaret Garland
• David Gentleman
• Geoffrey Clarke
• Walter Sykes George, architect
• Bill Gibb
• Evelyn Gibbs, artist
• Jean Gibson, sculptor and teacher
• Jeffrey Gibson
• John Gillard, teacher of advertising and design
• Ernest Gillick
• Mary Gillick, sculptor
• John Gilroy (artist)
• Edna Ginesi
• Gerald Gladstone
• Keith Godwin
• Mick Gold
• Stephen Goldblatt
• Grace Golden, artist
• John Goldschmidt, film director and producer
• João Gonzalez, animator
• Noémie Goudal, photographer
• James Henry Govier, painter, etcher and engraver
• Margaret Green, painter^[1]
• Kate Greenaway, illustrator
• Eileen Greenwood, artist and printmaker^[2]
• Ernest Greenwood,^[3] painter of watercolours
• Helen Frances Gregor
• Eleanor Gribble
• John Griffiths
• Kate Groobey, painter
• Sunil Gupta^[4]
• Karen Guthrie
• Richard Guyatt

H

• Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
• Reginald George Haggar
• Henry Haig
• Lorna Hamilton-Brown
• William Harbutt, sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
• George Hardie (artist)
• Anne Hardy
• Sophie Harley, jewellery designer
• Chris Harrison (photographer)
• Max Hattler, visual artist and animator
• Raymond Hawkey, designer and author
• Thomas Heatherwick, designer and sculptor
• John Hedgecoe, photographer
• Keith Helfet
• Guy Hendrix Dyas, production designer
• Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
• Hubert von Herkomer painter, composer, film maker
• Hilda Hewlett, aviator
• Gert Hildebrand
• Adrian Hill
• Rose Hilton
• Lubaina Himid
• Edith Mary Hinchley
• David Hockney, painter
• Rayner Hoff
• Eileen Hogan, painter
• Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook
• Nigel Holmes
• Sigrid Holmwood
• Gerald Holtom
• Peter Horbury
• Percy Horton
• Kathleen Horsman
• Laurence Housman, playwright
• Hitomi Hosono, ceramicist
• Albert Houthuesen, artist
• Ken Howard (artist)
• Erlund Hudson, artist
• Robert Alwyn Hughes
• Mustafa Hulusi
• Angus Hyland

I

• Kamala Ibrahim
• Bryan Ingham, etcher, painter and sculptor
• Judy Inglis
• James Irvine (designer)
• Keith Irvine
• Runa Islam

J

• Alison Jackson
• Charles Sargeant Jagger
• Apu Jan, fashion designer
• Merlin James, artist, critic
• Jannuzzi Smith
• James Jarvis (illustrator)
• Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer
• Travis Jeppesen, writer
• Chantal Joffe, painter
• Jasper Joffe, artist
• Laurel Johannesson, painter, multimedia
• Claude Johnson
• Alfred Garth Jones, illustrator
• Allen Jones, artist
• Barbara Jones (artist)
• Lucy Jones (artist)
• Lily Delissa Joseph
• Betty Jukes, sculptor
• Jagannath Panda painter, sculptor

K

• Jozef Kabaň, car designer
• Asif Kapadia, film director
• Geeta Kapur
• John Francis Kavanagh Diploma in Sculpture 1928
• Daniel Kearns (designer)
• Patrick Keiller
• Flora Kendrick
• Jonathan Kenworthy, sculptor
• Morris Kestelman
• Idris Khan
• Rajan Khosa
• Ian Kiaer
• Orla Kiely
• Katharine Kimball
• Ada Florence Kinton
• John Kirby, painter
• R. B. Kitaj, artist
• Alan Kitching, typographer
• Linda Kitson
• Afroditi Krassa
• Henry Krokatsis

L

• Edwin La Dell
• Simon Larbalestier, photographer
• Nora Fry Lavrin
• Geoff Lawson (designer)
• Noel Leaver, painter
• Gilbert Ledward
• Lee Jinjoon, artist
• Lawrence Lee
• Dante Leonelli, artist
• Audrey Levy, designer
• Jessie Lipscomb
• Elizabeth Jane Lloyd
• Mark Lloyd, car designer
• Fiona Lloyd-Davies
• John Hodgson Lobley
• Hew Locke
• Bernard Lodge, graphic designer
• Edwin Lutyens, architect

M

• Frances Macdonald, painter
• Julien Macdonald
• David Mach, 1988 Turner Prize nominee
• Kirsteen Mackay
• Steve Mackey, musician
• Ian Mackenzie-Kerr
• Steve Mackey
• Thomas MacLaren
• Jane McAdam Freud
• Charles Mahoney
• Kate Malone studio potter
• Peter Jacob Maltz, sculptor
• Melanie Manchot
• Edna Mann
• Mick Manning
• Jeremy Marre, film director
• Walter Marsden
• Robert Burkall Marsh
• Kenneth Martin, sculptor
• Mary Martin
• Mary Martin (artist)
• Penny Martin
• Simon Martin (Mayanist)
• Enid Marx
• Benedict Mason
• Robin Mason
• Arthur Max
• Donald Maxwell, artist and illustrator
• Hannah Maybank
• Enda McCallion
• Gerald McCann (fashion designer)
• Christopher McDonnell
• David McFall
• Gerry McGovern
• Colin McNaughton
• Carol McNicoll
• Chris Meigh-Andrews
• Ellen Meijers
• David Mellor, cutler and industrial designer
• Zoë Mendelson
• Mortimer Menpes, artist
• Kobena Mercer
• Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe
• Percy Metcalfe
• Katharine Meynell
• Hilary Miller
• John W. Mills, sculptor
• Russell Mills, multimedia artist and musician
• Dhruva Mistry
• Crawford Mitchell
• Maggie Mitchell, sculptor
• Ursula Mommens
• Henrietta Montalba, sculptor
• Esther Moore, sculptor
• Henry Moore, sculptor
• Raymond Moore (photographer)
• Erdem Moralioğlu, fashion designer
• Katy Moran
• Harry Morley, artist and illustrator
• Malcolm Morley, 1984 Turner Prize winner
• Jasper Morrison, designer
• Mary Morton, sculptor^[5]
• Colin Moss, artist and teacher
• Charles Mozley
• Matthieu Muller, industrial designer
• Sophie Muller
• Charlie Murphy (artist)
• Alison Murray
• William Grant Murray
• Peter Musson, silversmith
• Lawrence Mynott

N

• Deborah Nadoolman Landis
• Vera Neubauer
• Rhoda Holmes Nicholls
• Simon Nicholson
• Mike Nuttall
• Charlotte Newman

O

• Una O'Connor, actor
• Chris Ofili, 1998 Turner Prize winner
• Lucille Oille
• Laura Oldfield Ford
• Marilene Oliver, sculptor
• M. C. Oliver, calligrapher
• Vaughan Oliver, designer and graphic designer
• Peter Olley, English printmaker
• Chris Orr, English artist
• Christopher Orr, Scottish artist
• Jay Osgerby, designer
• Thérèse Oulton
• Graham Ovenden
• Roy Oxlade, painter
• Lawson Oyekan

P

• Tom Palin, painter
• Lilian Parker, sculptor
• Susan Parkinson, ceramic artist
• Eric Parry
• Stephen Partridge
• John Pasche
• Alicia Paz
• Muriel Pemberton
• Graham Percy
• Peter Phillips (artist)
• Cathie Pilkington
• Michael Pinsky
• John Piper (artist)
• Keith Piper (artist)
• Vivian Pitchforth, painter
• Platon (photographer)
• John Platt (artist)
• Michael Please
• Fergus Pollock
• Constance Mary Pott
• Cherry Potter
• Edward Poynter, artist
• Jane Price, painter
• Margaret Priest
• Simon Pummell
• William Pye (sculptor)

Q

• Brothers Quay, stop-motion animators

R

• Fiona Raby
• Alma Ramsey
• Tissa Ranasinghe
• Eric Ravilious
• Raymond Ray-Jones
• Ruth Raymond
• Mary Remington
• Alan Reynolds (artist)
• Lis Rhodes
• Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
• Ceri Richards, painter
• Frances Richards (British artist)
• Sophy Rickett, visual artist
• Alan Rickman, actor
• Arthur Dewhurst Riley
• Bridget Riley, artist
• Michael Rizzello
• John Romer (Egyptologist)
• Frank Roper
• Johnny Rozsa, photographer
• Frank Runacres
• Joseph Rykwert

S

• Astrid Sampe
• Kenneth Sandford
• Janek Schaefer, composer
• Tony Scherman
• Herbert Gustave Schmalz
• Peter Schreyer
• Ridley Scott, film director
• Tony Scott, film director
• Florian Seidl
• Uday Shankar, choreographer
• George Shaw (artist), Turner Prize nominee 2011
• Elaine Shemilt
• Clare Shenstone
• Marjorie Sherlock
• Simon Shore
• Stefan Sielaff
• Norman Sillman, coin designer
• John William Simpson
• Lilian Simpson
• Peter Sís, artist and illustrator
• Yvonne Skargon, wood engraver and illustrator
• Mary Annie Sloane
• Walter Smith (art educator)
• Arthur Smith (illustrator)
• Graham Smith (milliner)
• Graham Smith (photographer)
• Jack Smith (artist)
• Martin Smith (designer)
• Martin Smith (potter)
• Paul M. Smith (photographer)
• Richard Smith (artist)
• Walter Smith, industrial art educator
• Susan Weber Soros
• Alan Sorrell, archaeological reconstruction artist
• Ruskin Spear
• A. B. S. Sprigge
• Henry Stannard
• Mary Stainbank
• Julian Stair
• Cecil Stephenson, artist
• Peter Stevens (car designer)
• Stuart Stockdale, fashion designer
• Susan Stockwell
• Tim Stoner
• Paul Stopforth
• Mike Stott
• Madeleine Strindberg
• Linda Sutton, painter, RCA 100 mural prize 1972
• Charles Robinson Sykes

T

• Abdul Rahman Taha
• Kam Tang
• Jeremy Tankard
• Eric Taylor
• Leonard Campbell Taylor
• Alice Temperley
• Suzie Templeton, director of animated films, winner of Academy Award 2008
• Patrick Thomas (graphic artist)
• Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), painter
• Storm Thorgerson, photographer and designer
• Jake Tilson, artist
• Joe Tilson, artist
• Sue Timney
• Carl Toms
• Martin Travers, designer, stained glass artist
• Philip Treacy
• David Tremlett, artist, Turner Prize nominee 1992
• Newbury Abbot Trent
• Helen Mabel Trevor
• Ernest William Tristram
• John Tunnard, artist
• Charles Tunnicliffe, painter
• Gavin Turk, artist
• Richard Turner (artist)
• Sidney Tushingham, painter and etcher
• Alice Twemlow
• Mary Fraser Tytler

U

• Michael Upton

V

• Marjan van Aubel
• Dirk van Braeckel
• Katrina van Gruow
• Paul Vanstone
• Markus Vater
• Eugenia Vronskaya

W

• Paul Wager, painter and sculptor
• Janice Wainwright (fashion designer)
• Ray Walker, mural artist, 1945–1984
• Melanie Walsh, children's book illustrator
• Suling Wang, artist
• Albert Watson (photographer)
• Robert Welch (designer)
• Richard Wentworth, sculptor
• David Wheatley (director)
• Fred Whisstock, illustrator
• Valerie Wiffen, painter
• David Wightman (painter)
• Alison Wilding, 1992 Turner Prize nominee
• Christopher Williams (Welsh artist), 1873–1934
• Garth Williams
• Eli Marsden Wilson
• John David Wilson
• Joash Woodrow, painter
• Alice B. Woodward
• Ernest Worrall
• Sönke Wortmann
• Jon Wozencroft, graphic designer
• Run Wrake, animator
• Andrea Wulf
• Jan Wurm, painter
• Rose Wylie, painter
• Cerith Wyn Evans
• Althea Wynne, sculptor^[6]

Y

• Carey Young, artist
• Yuan Cai and Jian Jun Xi

Z

• Astrid Zydower

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4. "Sunil Gupta on his life, his work, and gay-rights since the sixties". British Journal of Photography. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
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