Raphael Appignanesi graduated with a First-Class Honours BA in Illustration (awarded Best Student in Narration and Illustration) from Sir John Cass, Metropolitan University, London (2013) and gained an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art (2018). He has worked at home and abroad as studio assistant to internationally renowned artists. He has exhibited and curated a printmaking show at the Mill End Art Pavilion, London (2013) and participated in several printmaking group shows at the CGP Gallery London 2017 and 2018 and at Bankside Gallery of the Royal society of Painter-Printmakers where he was awarded the Anthony Dawson RE Young Printmaker Award (second place) and is winner of the ELP prize at The National Original Print Exhibition. He has works currently exhibited in Lost in Europe: in the wake of Britain’s inner emigration, Open Space Gallery,Vienna.