Kent Institute of Art & Design - Notable Alumni and Tutors

Notable Alumni and Tutors

  • Wale Adeyemi, fashion designer
  • Billy Childish, foundation 1977 (who was banned from the Rochester site at Fort Pitt in the Medway Towns in 1981 for publishing 'obscene' poetry)
  • David Shaw, painter, silk-screener, tutor
  • Toni del Renzio, artist and writer
  • Tracey Emin, 1999 Turner Prize nominee
  • Tony Kaye, director
  • Bob Holness, broadcaster
  • Lasse Gjertsen, videographer
  • Tony Hart, TV personality
  • Jackie Hatfield, artist and writer
  • Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer
  • Madeleine Press, fashion designer
  • Karen Millen, fashion designer
  • Wendy Dagworthy, fashion designer
  • Roger Dean, artist
  • Jayne Parker, artist
  • Stass Paraskos, artist and founder of the Cyprus College of Art
  • Will Robson, mosaic artist
  • John Joseph Haldane, philosopher, broadcaster
  • Mary Tourtel, creator and illustrator of Rupert Bear
  • James Mayhew, writer and illustrator of children's books
  • Andrew Kötting, film maker, writer, artist
  • Mike Chavez-Dawson, artist, curator and publisher
  • Stuckist artists: Charles Thomson, Bill Lewis, Philip Absolon, Charles Williams, Sanchia Lewis
  • Humphrey Ocean, artist
  • Babette Cole, children's writer and illustrator
  • Gordon Frickers, marine artist
  • Tony Duggan-Smith, artist, film maker, luthier and co-leader of Canadian cult band Pukka Orchestra

Past tutors include: Roland Piche, Alan Denman, Ian Dury, Stephen Farthing, David Hall and David Hockney. Artist Mike Chaplin was a technician in the early 1970s.Quentin Crisp was a model at the Maidstone College.

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