Global InformationList of RWA Academicians information
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]
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.
| 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 |
- ^ "Bristol's RWA to undergo £3.8m restoration". BBC News. 28 May 2021. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023.
- ^ "Royal West of England Academy". Own Art. Archived from the original on 17 February 2023.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
RWAwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.