Artists
With the help of Bloomberg and our generous Deckchair Dreams artists, the Royal Parks Foundation’s dream to create a range of designer deckchairs was made possible.
Since the launch of Deckchair Dreams in 2006, some of the top artists from the worlds of art and drama, illustration, cartoon, fashion design and taxidermy have kindly donated their fabulous designs, including:
- Tracey Emin
- Alexander McQueen
- Phillip Treacy
- Marc Quinn
- Damien Hirst
- Polly Morgan
- Sir Peter Blake
- Ben Fogle
- Raymond Briggs.
Since then, we’ve continued to attract a wide range of deckchair designers and incorporated an education programme in London and Shanghai, resulting in a community and education collection.
Explore all the artists involved below and their designs which you can now purchase via our online shop.
Alex Williams
Alex Williams is a film animator and cartoonist based in London and Los Angeles. He was born in 1967, grew up in Notting Hill and was educated at Westminster, Camberwell and Merton College Oxford.
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Ronald Searle
Widely acknowledged as an influential English artist and cartoonist, Ronald Searle was born in Cambridge in 1920. He became a regular contributor to the Cambridge Daily News aged 15 and subsequently put himself through art school.
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Simon Gudgeon
Simon Gudgeon is an acclaimed British sculptor, whose unique style conveys the movement and emotions of nature in smooth forms and lines.
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Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy was born in 1966 in a tiny village called Ahascragh in County Galway, in the West of Ireland. He started sewing when he was about five, making dresses and hats for his sister’s dolls.
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Rob Kesseler
Rob Kesseler is a visual artist and Professor of Ceramic Art & Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Born in 1951 in Solihull, sandwiched between the industrial heartlands of the midlands.
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Wu Ching-ju
Wu Ching-ju was born in the tranquil rural setting of Fonglin, Taiwan. She grew up fascinated by the ancient traditions of China and after secondary school soon became interested in the traditional art of flower arranging.
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Shanglin
Born in Beijing in 1948, Shanglin lived in Shanghai during his early years and then moved to Hong Kong in the late 1970s where he works in business and commercial design.
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Qiu Zhijie
Qiu Zhijie was born in 1969 in Fujian and is one of China’s most versatile artists. He is a conceptual photographer known also for his paintings, calligraphy, installations and video. Qiu’s works are intensely philosophical and quirky.
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Lou Shenghua
Lou Shenghua (born 1966, Zhejiang, China) was a doctor before he entered Zhejiang Academy of Fine Art (now China Academy of Art) in 1988 and got his master degree in 2001.
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Wang Chao
Wang Chao was born in 1974 in Shandong province, China and graduated from the China Academy of Art in 1998. He received his masters degree in 2007 and is currently Director of the printmaking department’s Purple Bamboo Studio.
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Hu Xiangcheng
Hu Xiangcheng was born in Shanghai in 1950. After graduating from the Stage Design Department of Shanghai Theatre Academy, he taught at Tibet University for ten years.
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Cai Jin
Cai Jin was born in 1965 in Tun Xi in Anhui Province, China. In 1982 she studied fine art at Anhui University, which she funded by drawing illustrations for China’s Women and Youth Literature magazines.
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Mat Collishaw
Mat Collishaw was born in Nottingham in 1966. He went on to study at the Trent Polytechnic between 1985-86, and in 1989 graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London.
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John Hubbard
John Hubbard was born in the USA in 1931 and was educated at Harvard University. In his early 20's, he completed, three years service in the military, based in Japan.
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Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin's art is one of disclosure, using her life events as inspiration for works ranging from painting, drawing, video and installation, to photography, needlework and sculpture.
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Michaela Edwards
Michaela Edwards is a London based designer within Cube-d, the global in-house creative team at Bloomberg. From New Zealand, Michaela studied Media Arts at Wintec in the Waikato. Michaela has lived and designed in London since 1999.
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Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley was born in India and educated in the Far East and Sussex. During the Sixties, she was a photographic model which led her into the acting career she had always longed for.
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Paul Morrison
Paul Morrison was born in Liverpool in 1966. In 1998 he graduated with a Postgraduate DIP and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College of Art. He lives and works in Sheffield and London.
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