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Meet the RA Schools staff
Our permanent faculty are all practising artists. Our visiting faculty include leading contemporary artists, thinkers and academics.
Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts
Cathie Pilkington RA
Curator & Director, Royal Academy Schools
Eliza Bonham Carter
Executive Assistant to Keeper of the Royal Academy and Director of RA Schools
Jemima Fitzjohn
Senior Lecturers
Margarita Gluzberg
Brian Griffiths RA Elect
Richard Kirwan
Head of Fine Art Processes
Mark Hampson
Academic Registrar
Sara Doherty
Programme Administrator
Gwendolen Jones
Student Services Administrator
Geraldine Vaughan
Sculpture Workshop Manager
Richard Elliott
Sculpture Workshop Technician
Martha Todd
Rachael Barker
Digital Print Tutors
Guler Ates
Madalina Zaharia
Printmaking Tutors
Leigh Clarke
Katherine Van Uytrecht
Digital Media Instructor
James Irwin
Professor of Anatomy
Michael Clark
Professor of Architecture
Peter St John (Adam Caruso and Peter St John RA)
Professor of Chemistry
Bronwyn Ormsby
Professor of Computer Vision
Roberto Cipolla
Eranda Professor of Drawing
Michael Armitage RA
Professor of Painting
Lisa Milroy RA
Professor of Perspective
Ryan Gander RA
Professor of Sculpture
Eva Rothschild RA
Visiting Professors
Neil Walton
Daphne Wright
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About the RA Schools
The RA Schools has been a key part of the Royal Academy since its foundation in 1769. We offer a full-time, three-year programme to 10–17 postgraduate students each year. We charge no fees.