LONDON.- Acclaimed musician Nick Cave will receive an Honorary Doctorate from Chancellor of the Royal College of Art (RCA), Sir Jony Ive, in a ceremony at the iconic Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank on 23 September.

Every year, the RCA – the world’s leading art and design university – awards outstanding individuals with Honorary Doctorates and Honorary Fellowships. These awards are the highest recognition the College can bestow upon an individual and they celebrate exceptional accomplishments. Nick Cave’s Honorary Doctorate will be awarded during a Convocation ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall, alongside over a thousand students graduating from the RCA in the fields of Design and Communication.

Nick Cave was born in Warracknabeal, Australia. He lives between London and Brighton with his wife, designer Susie Cave.

Perhaps best known as lead singer and songwriter with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave’s artistic output is prolific and ever-evolving. Over a creative career that spans more than 40 years, Cave has worked across a diverse number of disciplines; as a solo and collaborative musician, a score composer, a writer of books, film scripts and his weekly mailer The Red Hand Files, and more recently as a ceramic artist. His work explores the dark and light of existence - raising questions about the nature of faith, the human condition, and the act of creation itself; often with shades of melancholy and his signature caustic humour.

Cave has been making music and performing live since the 1980s, originally with post-punk band The Boys Next Door, later The Birthday Party, then with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Outside of his writing and recording as a performing artist, Cave has also collaborated with Warren Ellis on numerous film & TV soundtracks.

Cave’s writing career spans a multitude of forms including novels, non-fiction, essays, scripts, and his website and The Red Hand Files. In 2022 Cave’s bestselling book written with Seán O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage was published to critical acclaim.

Cave was drawn to visual art from a young age, and although he abandoned his formal art education early on, he has continued to work with visual mediums such as drawing and painting throughout his life. In 2022 he presented his first body of work as a ceramic artist with a series of 17 ceramic sculptures, The Devil – A Life, inspired by the Victorian Staffordshire ‘flatback’ pottery figures of which he is a collector.