Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, England. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution, offering the degrees of M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D.. The College is housed in a number of buildings in South Kensington and Battersea, including the Darwin Building at Kensington Gore, and Stevens Building nearby in Jay Mews. The Battersea campus includes the Sculpture School at Howie St.
The college was founded in 1837, and was then known as the Government School of Design. It became the National Art Training School in 1853, with the Female School of Art in separate buildings, and in 1896 received the name The Royal College of Art. It was often informally referred to as the South Kensington Schools during the 19th century. See Richard Burchett, an early Headmaster, for more details on this period. After 130 years in operation, the RCA was granted a Royal Charter in 1967, which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees.
Its Royal Charter specifies that the objects of the College are "to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce."
The average age of its postgraduate students, studying at Master’s and Doctoral levels, is twenty-six. Some come to the Royal College of Art direct from their undergraduate courses, others later in their careers as artists. According to the latest statistics on all graduate destinations from the Royal College of Art’s fine art courses between 1992 and 1996, from a total cohort of over 300 graduates an average of 93.9% gained work in directly related employment and at the right level. To qualify, they had to be professional, exhibiting artists.
The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking fine art, applied art, design, communications and humanities courses.
The Rector of the RCA is the historian and critic Sir Christopher Frayling.
The Royal College of Art played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s, with students including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s with students including Peter Blake and David Hockney.
The college also has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of automotive design, photography, industrial design and interior design, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing. Degrees in the History of Design and Conservation are offered in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, while an MA in Industrial Design Engineering is offered jointly with Imperial College, both close to the college.
Also close by are the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Geographical Society, Royal College of Music, Imperial College and Hyde Park.
19th century
 HRH The Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, Duchess of Argyll
Sir George Clausen, painter
Christopher Dresser, designer
Conrad Dressler, sculptor and potter
Sir Luke Fildes, painter
Kate Greenaway, illustrator
William Harbutt, sculptor and inventor of Plasticine
Hubert von Herkomer painter
Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer
Edwin Lutyens, architect
Elizabeth Thompson (Lady Butler), painter
20th century
Victor Ambrus, illustrator
Frank Auerbach, painter
Christopher Bailey (fashion designer), Creative Director for Burberry
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Furniture and Industrial Designers, founders of BarberOsgerby
Tom Barker, technologist, design engineer, a professor at RCA.
Jonathan Barnbrook, typographer and graphic designer, one of the 'Young British Artists'
Nina Beier, artist
John Bridgeman (sculptor), winner of the Otto Beit Medal
Cressida Bell, textile designer
Peter Blake, painter
Quentin Blake, cartoonist, author and illustrator of Roald Dahl's books
Victor Burgin, 1986 Turner Prize nominee
Ian Callum, Design Director (Jaguar cars)
Moray Callum, automotive designer (Ford)
Gillian Carnegie, 2005 Turner Prize nominee
Benedict Carpenter, 2001 Jerwood Sculpture Prize winner
Patrick Caulfield, 1987 Turner Prize nominee
Betty Churcher, Director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997
John Clappison, ceramic and glass designer
Ossie Clark, fashion designer
Jack Coutu, printmaker and sculptor
Alki David, Writer, Actor, Director, Philanthropist, Explorer and Businessman.
Jake and Dinos Chapman, 2003 Turner Prize nominees
Benjamin Clemens, sculptor
Susie Cooper, ceramic designer
Tony Cragg, 1988 Turner Prize winner
Robin Day, designer
Richard Deacon, 1987 Turner Prize winner
Roger Dean, artist
Len Deighton, historian and author
Ian Dury, musician, singer
James Dyson, vacuum cleaner designer
Benoit Pierre Emery, silk scarf fashion designer
Tracey Emin, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
Cathie Felstead, illustrator
Mary Gillick, sculptor
James Henry Govier painter etcher and engraver.etching Demonstrator
Raymond Hawkey, designer and author
Thomas Heatherwick, designer and sculptor
Barbara Hepworth, sculptor
Hilda Hewlett, pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur
David Hockney, painter
Albert Houthuesen, artist
Peter Horbury, automotive designer (Ford)
Laurence Housman, playwright
Christian Hrabalek, automotive designer (Fenomenon)
R. B. Kitaj, artist
David Mach, 1988 Turner Prize nominee
Jeremy Marre, film director
Kenneth Martin, sculptor
Mary Martin, sculptor
David Mellor, cutler and industrial designer
John W Mills, sculptor
Henry Moore, sculptor
Malcolm Morley, 1984 Turner Prize winner
Jasper Morrison, designer
Chris Ofili, 1998 Turner Prize winner
Marilene Oliver, sculptor
M. C. Oliver, calligrapher
Vaughan Oliver, designer, graphic designer
Christopher Orr, artist
Brothers Quay, stop-motion animators
Tony Pettman, Automotive Designer Graduate 1989 (Winner of Triplex/Pilkington Award)
Ceri Richards, painter
Bridget Riley, artist
Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
Sir Ridley Scott, film director (brother of Tony)
Tony Scott, film director (brother of Ridley)
Jerszy Seymour, designer
Uday Shankar, choreographer
Graham Smith, photographer
Martin Smith, automotive designer (Ford)
Peter Stevens, automotive designer
Linda Sutton (painter), RCA 100' mural prize 1972
Storm Thorgerson, photographer and designer
John Tunnard artist
Charles Tunnicliffe, painter
Sidney Tushingham, painter and etcher
Lee Wagstaff, photographer performance artist
Richard Wentworth, sculptor
Alison Wilding, 1992 Turner Prize nominee
Christopher Williams (Welsh Artist 1873-1934)
Joash Woodrow, painter
Jon Wozencroft, graphic designer and cofounder of Touch Music
Carey Young, 2003 Beck's Futures nominee
Sue Coe political artist
David Tremlett, Artist, Turner Prize nominee 1992
Andrea Wulf History of Design 1999
External links
Royal College of Art website
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