Nicholas Pope Drawings | Book available from Corner House

Investigating material and form, Nicholas Pope’s vivid and energetic drawing has informed the artist’s sculpture throughout his career.

Having predominantly employed variations of circles and holes in graphite and charcoal throughout the 1970–80s, since the early 1990s Pope has introduced more complex and vibrant arrangements of colour in Indian ink, paint and biro.

Engaging with themes of ritual, religion and morality, the drawings coexist alongside the artist’s sculpture; developing out of other works as well as becoming a foundation for new ideas.

Accompanied by over 90 images of drawings spanning four decades, the volume includes a text by James Hamilton and an exchange between the artist and Jon Wood, which focuses on the drawings’ deployment of colour as well as their relationship to Pope’s sculpture.
James Hamilton is a writer, curator and lecturer based in Oxford. Jon Wood is Research Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art | 19 March – 18 June 2016

The Conundrum of the Chalices of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues. Nicholas Pope with James Maskrey. 2015 glass max height Anger 103cm. photo. David Williams

‘Baldock Pope Zahle’ presents a new sculptural installation by Jonathan Baldock, and newly commis-sioned work by Nicholas Pope and Maria Zahle in Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art’s spacious and newly opened up main gallery. The exhibition brings together artists of different generations who each explore an inquisitive relationship to materials and making. The show has been conceived as a conversation around shared formal and thematic approaches and, while the work is diverse, each artist makes sculpture that is resolutely unmonumental. In using materials such as glass, textiles and ceramics — Baldock, Pope and Zahle translate their own circumstances and lived experiences into exuberant and highly emotive work.

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art

The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues. 2015 oil bar on paper 102 x 150 or 150 x 102cm photo. Luke Unsworth

Yahweh and the Seraphim installed in The Sanctuary at Sunderland Minster March 2016. Displayed in front of the East window designed by Dorothy Marion Grant in 1950

BP Walk through British Art

Tate Britain: Display

A walk through British Art offers a circuit of Tate Britain’s unparalleled collection from its beginnings to its end. This ‘walk through time’ has been arranged to ensure that the collection’s full historical range, from 1545 to the present, is always on show. There are no designated themes or movements; instead, you can see a range of art made at any one moment in an open conversational manner.

For more information please visit the Tate website

Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986

1 April – 21 June 2015

Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The late 1970s and 1980s witnessed the emergence of a younger generation of artists working in the United Kingdom who began to receive international attention for practices which, although incredibly diverse, share a revived interest in the sculpted object, in materials, and in ideas around making. Making It is the first exhibition to survey this exciting moment in British sculpture. It shows how approaches to object making were reinvigorated by the breakthroughs in conceptual and performance art made by preceding generations and by sculptural and cultural inspirations from beyond these shores.

For more information please visit the YSP website

Fifteen Holes 1981 Elm wood Height: 92 cm | 36 in

National Museum of Wales

18 April–4 October 2015

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Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Gallery | August – November 2nd 2014

Nicholas Pope Scultpures and Drawings is an exhibition at the Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Gallery in Belgium.

Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Gallery, Gallery Knokke, Golvenstraat 11, 8300, Knokke-Heist, Belgium