41 Notable alumni of University of the Arts London
Updated: June 18, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of the Arts London is 1510st in the world, 1st in North America, and 100st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from University of the Arts London sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of the Arts London won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Jane Boyd
1953-. (aged 73)
artist
Jane Boyd is a British artist. She is best known for her work in light-based installation and drawing and has been exhibiting internationally since 1986. Boyd was the first woman to be elected Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, a two-year fellowship (1981–83) awarded by Trinity College, Cambridge. Her work is represented in a number of public collections including the Victoria...
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2. Yuliya Polishchuk
1983-. (aged 43)
fashion designer
Yuliya Polishchuk is a London-based fashion designer who was born in Ukraine.
3. Shelagh Cluett
1947-2007 (aged 60)
sculptor
Shelagh Cluett was an artist and fine art lecturer working in London, England, from the late 1960s until 2007. Cluett became a recognised figure on the London art scene in the early 1980s with exhibitions of her large metal sculptures appearing internationally. She worked at Chelsea School of Art and Design as a lecturer, and after 25 years, took up...
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4. Sara Diamond
1954-. (aged 72)
academic administrator
university teacher
writer
video artist
television producer
Sara Louise Diamond, CM OOnt RCA is a Canadian artist, designer, researcher and academic administrator. She is President Emeritus of OCAD University, Canada.
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5. Gemma Morris
journalist
Gemma Evans is a British television presenter and journalist. She worked for Sky News from 2006 until 2018, reporting on current affairs and presenting Sky's weekly technology show, Swipe. Gemma was formerly the regular presenter for Channel 5's lunchtime and weekend TV news programmes.
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6. David Thorp
1947-. (aged 79)
curator
exhibition curator
David Thorp is a British artist, independent curator and director. He curated GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy of Arts and Wide Open Spaces at PS1 MoMA New York, among many others. He was Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Henry Moore Foundation and was also director of the South London Gallery, The Showroom and Chisenhale. He has been Associate...
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7. Lucy Cox
1988-. (aged 38)
contemporary artist
Lucy Cox in Chard, Somerset, UK, is a British abstract artist and curator.
8. Lorenzo Belenguer
1970-. (aged 56)
sculptor
Lorenzo Belenguer is a Spanish non-binary artist from Valencia who is active in London. Belenguer, who is resident in both Valencia and London, managed an art gallery for 6 years before deciding to become a full-time artist himself.
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9. Rohit K Dasgupta
1987-. (aged 39)
ethnographer
politician
university teacher
Rohit K. Dasgupta FRAS, FHEA is an Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a British Labour Party politician. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow where he remains as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow. In 2018...
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10. Ed Vere
1973-. (aged 53)
illustrator
Ed Vere is a British writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the Highland Children's Book Award in 2007 for his book, The Getaway and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for children's book illustration, recognizing his 2008 picture book Banana. His third book, Mr. Big was chosen by Booktrust as the official Booktime book for 2009 and...
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11. Parvathi Nayar
1964-. (aged 62)
artist
Parvathi Nayar is a New Delhi born visual artist and creative writer. She is best known for her creative videos, sculptures, paintings, bookmaking and photography. She was one of 70 artists selected to be part of B70, the historical 70th anniversary birthday show of Amitabh Bachchan. One of her works, a 20-foot-high drawn sculpture artwork, was installed at New Mumbai...
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12. Giovanni Aloi
1976-. (aged 50)
art theorist
art historian
university teacher
exhibition curator
editor-in-chief
Giovanni Aloi is an Italian author and curator specializing in the representation of nature in modern and contemporary art. He teaches art history and visual culture at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture and is the co-editor of the University of Minnesota...
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13. William Tempest
1987-. (aged 39)
fashion designer
William Tempest is a British fashion designer.
14. Marwa Arsanios
1978-. (aged 48)
video artist
filmmaker
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, researcher and filmmaker from Beirut.
15. Amali de Alwis
1980-. (aged 46)
business executive
Amali Chivanthi de Alwis MBE FRSA was the CEO of Code First: Girls. Replaced by Anna Brailsford. She is currently UK Managing Director of Microsoft for Startups. She is a board member of Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, and the Institute of Coding.
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16. Daniel Jouseff
1975-. (aged 51)
painter
Daniel Youssef is a Swedish-Palestinian artist based in Stockholm. He works with questions concerning identity and language in drawings, neon works and installations.
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17. Tasnim Nazeer
journalist
Tasnim Nazeer is a British journalist, author and Universal Peace Federation Ambassador for Peace Nazeer became Scotland's first hijab-wearing freelance TV reporter in July 2020. She has written for Al Jazeera, HuffPost, The Independent online, CNN, BBC News Online, The Guardian, TRT World, Middle East Eye and others. Nazeer was awarded The Muslim News Ibn Battuta Award for Excellence in...
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18. Andy Denzler
1965-. (aged 61)
painter
Andy Denzler is a Swiss artist. His distinctive technique of distorting the freshly applied surface of his paintings has shaped his entire oeuvre in painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing.
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19. Stephen Farthing
1950-. (aged 76)
painter
art historian
Stephen Farthing RA is an English painter and writer of art history.
20. Anne Carlisle
1956-. (aged 70)
academic
Anne Carlisle OBE is a British educator.
21. Keith Coventry
1958-. (aged 68)
exhibition curator
painter
sculptor
artist
Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.
22. Mary Flanagan
1969-. (aged 57)
designer
pedagogue
university teacher
electronic literature writer
interaction designer
Mary Flanagan is an American artist, author, educator, and designer in the field of game studies. She is the founding director of the research laboratory and design studio Tiltfactor Lab at Dartmouth College. She is the author of scholarly books from MIT Press, including Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Board Games, Values at Play in Digital...
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23. Janette Beckman
1959-. (aged 67)
photographer
Janette Beckman is a British documentary photographer who has worked in London, New York and Los Angeles. Beckman describes herself as a documentary photographer. While she produces a lot of work on location, she is also a studio portrait photographer. Her work has appeared on records for the major labels, and in magazines including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Glamour, Italian Vogue,...
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24. Paul Newham
1962-. (aged 64)
psychotherapist
Paul Newham is a retired British psychotherapist known for developing techniques used in psychology and psychotherapy that make extensive use of the arts to facilitate and examine two forms of human communication: the interpersonal communication through which people speak aloud and listen to others, and the intrapersonal communication that enables individuals to converse silently with themselves. His methods emphasise the...
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25. Sandra Becker
1967-. (aged 59)
video artist
sculptor
television producer
artist
photographer
Sandra Becker is a Berlin-based video artist.
26. Loyle Carner
1994-. (aged 32)
songwriter
rapper
singer-songwriter
Benjamin Gerard Coyle-Larner, known professionally as Loyle Carner, is an English hip-hop musician. He released his debut album, Yesterday's Gone, in 2017, which was nominated for the 2017 Mercury Prize. He released his second album, Not Waving, but Drowning, in April 2019, and his third, hugo, in October 2022. His fourth studio album, Hopefully!, was released in June 2025. Carner...
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27. Rankin
1966-. (aged 60)
fashion photographer
photographer
film director
John Rankin Waddell, known as Rankin, is a British photographer and director who has photographed, amongst other subjects, Björk, Kate Moss, Madonna, David Bowie and Queen Elizabeth II.
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28. Jacob Dudman
1997-. (aged 29)
actor
television actor
voice actor
Jacob Stanley Dudman is an English actor, writer and filmmaker. He is known for his roles in the Netflix programs The Stranger (2020), The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023), Medici (2019), Fate: The Winx Saga (2021–2022) and the BBC iPlayer series The A List (2018); as well as various Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions.
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29. Benjamin Hall
1982-. (aged 44)
journalist
war correspondent
Benjamin Hall is a British-American journalist who serves as a State Department correspondent for Fox News Channel. He has worked for The New York Times, BBC Radio, and Esquire Magazine.
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30. Philip Crowther
1981-. (aged 45)
journalist
Philip Crowther is a British-German-Luxembourgish-American journalist, notable for being a polyglot. He has publicly spoken in fluent French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, German, and Luxembourgish. He is the White House correspondent for France 24, international affiliate correspondent for the Associated Press, and is a member of the White House Correspondents' Association.
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31. Henry Holland
1983-. (aged 43)
journalist
fashion designer
Henry Holland is an English fashion designer, businessman and blogger from Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester.
32. Nick Gentry
1980-. (aged 46)
painter
Nicholas James Gentry is a British artist from London. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials. He states that through this process "contributor, artist and viewer come closer together". His art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology, identity and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media.
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33. Per Sundnes
1966-. (aged 60)
music journalist
television presenter
pedagogue
radio personality
Per André Sundnes is a Norwegian journalist and talk show host. He is often described as a trend and pop culture expert with a particular interest for music and fashion.
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34. Jon Baker
1960-. (aged 66)
music executive
Jon Baker is a music industry executive. He has worked as a fashion designer, promoter, and is currently co-owner of Geejam, a luxury resort and recording studio located in San San, near Port Antonio, Jamaica.
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35. Florence Welch
1986-. (aged 40)
singer
guitarist
singer-songwriter
drummer
composer
Florence Leontine Mary Welch is an English singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the indie rock band Florence and the Machine. The band's debut studio album, Lungs (2009), topped the UK Albums Chart and won the Brit Award for Best British Album. Their next five albums also achieved chart success. In 2018, Welch released...
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36. Sean Lock
1963-2021 (aged 58)
television presenter
film producer
comedian
television actor
actor
Sean Lock was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. In 2000, Lock won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005 to...
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37. Katie Leung
1987-. (aged 39)
film actor
actor
stage actor
Katie Leung is a Scottish actress. She began her career playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter film series. On television, she is known for her roles in the BBC series One Child (2014) and Annika (2021–2023), the ITV series Strangers (2018), and the Amazon Prime series The Peripheral (2022). She also voiced Caitlyn Kiramman in the Netflix animated series...
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38. Bonnie Wright
1991-. (aged 35)
director
film actor
child actor
voice actor
film director
Bonnie Francesca Wright is an English actress, filmmaker, and environmental activist. She is best known for her role as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series.
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39. Alaa Satir
1990-. (aged 36)
visual artist
draftsperson
Alaa Satir is a Sudanese visual artist, known for her illustrations, murals and cartoons presenting images relating to women's rights, the Sudanese revolution of 2018/19 and other social and political issues in contemporary Sudan. Since her first exhibition in Khartoum in 2017, and especially through her street art highlighting the importance of women in Sudanese society, she has gained international...
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40. Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan
1983-. (aged 43)
merchant
television presenter
Afia Serwaa Kobi Hemaa Osisiadan-Bekoe is a Ghanaian female entrepreneur, TV presenter and communication specialist. She has had a career in the media industry for over ten years. She is currently the head of corporate communication at Ghana Post Company Limited and the founder of Angeles Foundation an agency which focuses on boy-child empowerment and entrepreneurial skills.
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41. Nazir Tanbouli
1971-. (aged 55)
painter
Nazir Tanbouli is an Egyptian born artist. He was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt and studied at the University of Alexandria Faculty of Fine Arts. His uncle is the painter Ibrahim El-Tanbouli (b. 1954) and his great-uncle was the painter and Egyptologist Lotfy El-Tanbouli (1919–1982). He works in drawing and painting, especially mural painting.
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