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Biography

Biography

Born 1949 in Sydney, Australia
Currently lives and works in Ledbury
and London, United Kingdom

Education
1970–73
Bath Academy of Art, Bath, uk
1974–75
British Council Exchange Scholarship at Institul
de Arte Plastice ‘Nicolae Grigorescu’, Bucuresti,
Republica Socialista Romania

 

selected solo exhibitions
2014
Gallery Exhibition, London
Nicholas Pope: The Apostles Speaking in Tongues
Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury (uk)

 

  • The Apostle Speaking in Tongues

2013
New Art Centre, Roche Court Sculpture Park,
Salisbury, uk

39 Maple blocks, maple wood, height 60cm x 1830cm

 

2011
Then and Now (with Toon Verhoef ), Galerie
Onrust, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Dead Mum Surrounded by the Boys Epoxy resin, Height 88 cm
  • Mr & Mrs Pope lit From With in, Porcelain Electric light height 166cm
  • Brotherly Love, Epoxy Resin

 

2003
My Three Fates, Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London, uk

2001
The Ten Commandments in Flowing Light, Art &
Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands

The Ten Commandments in flowing lights. Porcelain, metal, cloth, polystyrene, aluminium foil                       300 x 600cm

 

 

 

1998
The Painted Room, Ledbury Poetry Festival,
Ledbury, uk

1998, Ernle’s Last Flight, Water Colour in Pastel and

 

1997
Art & Project, Slootdorp, The Netherlands

1996
Art Now: Nicholas Pope: The Apostles Speaking in
Tongues, Tate Gallery, London, uk

The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit By Their Own Lamps.                                                                                    Terracotta, metal, oil, wick and flames                                300x118cm

 

1992
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium

 

1986
Waddington Galleries, London, uk

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium1985

Hoos heigh 140cm, Silver birch, African Woods        26cm,  Ebony

 

Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1984
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Untitled Chalk & Soapstone 112cm hiegh

Waddington Galleries, London, uk

Maquette for an Unknown Landscape No5 and Maquette for an Unknown Landscape No1.

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium

1982
Nicholas Pope: Wax Drawings and Sculpture, John
Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton,
Southampton, uk

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium

1981
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo,
The Netherlands

Odd Elms, 214 x 6420cm Elms Wood

1980
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Long Larch Line

1979
Anthony Stokes Gallery, London, uk

Three wood Blocks, Hornbeam Wood, Thirty Wood Blocks, Tall Wood Blocks

1979
Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Seven odd Chalks, Four Thin Stones, Three odd Woods, Five odd Woods & Three Stone Slabs

 

Gallery A, Sydney, Australia

1976
Garage Gallery, London, uk

1976 Tall Chalk, Leaning Chalk, Stacked Lead, Small Chalk, height 120 cm. Leaning Column, Oak Tree Column.

 

1976 City of Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery,
Portsmouth, uk

Curved Stack heigh 64cm Lead & Bath Stone

Selected group exhibitions

Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics Leeuwarden Netherlands

2012
Multiple Market, Handel Street Projects,
London, uk
Crating, Mistaken Presence at The Greyfriars,
Lincoln, uk
The Stone of Folly, Down Stairs Gallery,
Great Brampton House, Madley, uk

2011
United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain
in the 1960s and 1970s, Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds, uk

2010
Super Farmers’ Market, Handel Street Projects,
London, uk

2008
Depot vbvr: Cragg, Flanagan, Gilbert & George,
Long, Lord, Pope, Rijksmuseum Twenthe,
Enschede, The Netherlands

2009
Clay, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, uk

2005
1979, Bloomberg Space, London, uk

2003
Ramen Windows, The Edams Museum, Edam,
The Netherlands
Mixed Exhibition, Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London, uk

2002
Slip: Artists in The Netherlands and Britain Working
with Ceramic, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,
Norwich, uk and Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem,
The Netherlands

2001
Simply British: Flanagan, Long and Pope,
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede,
The Netherlands

1999
Fine Edge, Leominster, uk

1998
Arkipelag, Stockholm, Sweden

1995
Sculpturen uit de collectie van Marlies en Jo Eyck,
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht,
The Netherlands

1994
Festival Sculpture, International Garden Festival,
Liverpool, uk

1992
The Becht Collection at Arnolfini, Arnolfini,
Bristol, uk

1990
Kunst in de Polder, Art & Project, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

1988
Les Maîtres de Forme Contemporains, Brussels,
Belgium

1987
The Artist’s Notebook, Galerie Bernard Jordan,
Paris, France; Galerie Akiyama, Tokyo and
Atelier Nishinomiya, Nishinomiya, Japan
Carved Wood, Contemporary Applied Arts,
London, uk

1986
Focus on British Art, International Cultureel
Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium

1984
Groups VII, Waddington Galleries,
London, uk
The Becht Collection, Stedlijk Museum,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
London Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf,
London, uk

1983
Groups VI, Waddington Galleries,
London, uk
Woodworks, Plymouth Arts Centre,
Plymouth, uk
Drawing in Air, Sunderland Arts Centre,
Sunderland, uk

1982
Erwin Gross, Hans van Hoek, Mimmo Paladino,
A R Penck, Nicholas Pope, Waddington Galleries,
London, uk
The Sculpture Walk, Great Linford Arts Centre,
Milton Keyes, uk

1980
British Art Now: An American Perspective, Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, ny, us; San
Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, ca, us; Telfair
Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, ga, us;
University Art Museum, Austin, tx, us; and
Royal Academy of Art, London, uk
New Image, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy
Nature as Material, Arts Council of Great Britain
touring exhibition

1979
Sculptors’ Drawings, The Minories, Colchester, uk
First International Young Artist Triennial of
Drawing, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Second National
Exhibition, Castle Museum, Norwich;
Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Camden Arts
Centre, London and Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield, uk
Style in the Seventies, Arnolfini, Bristol, uk
British Art Now, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
Laing Gallery, Newcastle; Hatton Gallery,
Newcastle; Arnolfini, Bristol and Royal West of
England Academy, Bristol, uk

1978
A Critic’s Choice, Institute of Contemporary Art,
London, uk, Taranman Gallery, London, uk
A Free Hand, Arts Centre Gallery, Chester; Ikon
Gallery, Birmingham; Huddersfield Art Gallery,
Huddersfield; Great Yarmouth Exhibition
Centre, Great Yarmouth; Leicester Polytechnic,
Leicester and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, uk

1977
Stephanie Bergman and Nicholas Pope,
Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton and
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, uk
Carving: An Exhibition of Carved Wood and Stone
Sculpture, Brighton Festival, Brighton, uk
Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British
Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, uk
On Site, Arnolfini, Bristol, uk

1976
Summer Show 3, Serpentine Gallery, London, uk
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery,
London, uk

1975
The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery,
London, uk

1974
City Art Project: Portsmouth and Southsea,
Portsmouth City Museums, Portsmouth, uk

1973
Festival Gallery, Bath, uk

Public collections
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Arts Council Collection, London, uk
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht,
Maastricht, The Netherlands
bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon,
Portugal
Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
City of Edmonton Public Art Collection,
Edmonton, Canada
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, uk
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, uk
Portsmouth City Museum Collection,
Portsmouth, uk
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo,
The Netherlands
Rochdale Arts & Heritage Service,
Rochdale, uk
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, ny, us
Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch,
Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The British Council, London, uk
The British Museum, London, uk
The Tate Collection, London, uk
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, uk
University of Southampton, Southampton, uk
Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open-Air Museum, Ueda,
Japan

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, uk

Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, uk
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, uk

Residencies and Committees
1992
Visiting Artist, Victoria College, Melbourne,
Australia

1984–85
Artist in Residence, Oxford University,
Oxford, uk

1981
British Council Cultural Visitor to Zimbabwe
1979–81
Member of the Serpentine Gallery Committee
and Arts Council Art Panel

1978
British Representative Commonwealth Games
Sculpture Symposium, Edmonton, Canada

1976–81
Chairman and Member of Southern Arts
Association Art Panel

1976
British Council Cultural Visitor to Romania

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Romania, 1975

Mbawala, Ruvuma Valley, Tanzania, 1982

The artist surrounded by The Ten Commandments in Flowing Light, 1997, Much Marcle Studio
The Biennale Gardens, Venice, 1980

The artist’s studio, Herefordshire,1986

The artist in his studio, Much Marcle, Herefordshire, 2013

Gallery

 

Covetousness 27cm h
Planting plan for the Chapel 1985 Graphite on paper 57 × 73 cm | 23 × 29 in
Yoo 1984 Charcoal on paper 73 × 57 cm | 29 × 23 in
Model for an Unknown Landscape No.1 1984 Stained and painted wood Height: 115 cm | 45 in
Tall Chalk 1975 Walnut wood and chalk Height: 350 cm | 138 in
Lust Marble 2010 Marble Height: 24 cm | 10 in
Three Black Lumps 1979 Charcoal on brown paper 225 × 270 cm | 89 × 106 in
Silver Washbasin with Drain 1995 Ink, watercolour, glitter on paper 80 × 120 cm | 32 × 47 in
Cosmic Bodies 1993 Porcelain Height: 35 cm | 14 in
Yahweh and the Seraphim 1995 Glazed and lustred ceramic Height: 430 cm | 169 in Installation view, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1995
Mr and Mrs Pope Melting 1991 Cast aluminium Height: 146 cm | 58 in
The Oxford Conversation 1985 Painted wood Height: 360 cm | 142 in
Bun Woolie 2004 Felted wool Height: 27 cm | 11 in
Prudence, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Odd Lumps 1981 Oil crayon on brown paper 212 × 392 cm | 84 × 154 in
Myself in Difficulty 1986 Painted wood Height: 158 cm | 62 in
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues Plasticised Menu Card 1998 Plastic and paper Four pages: 28 × 20 cm | 11 × 8 in (each) Edition of 250 Produced with Kevin Mount
Installation view with Maquette for an Unknown Landscape No.5 (1983) and Maquette for an Unknown Landscape No.1 (1983), Waddington Gallery, London, 1984
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues (interior) 2003 Digital virtual image with Broadway Malyan
Anger 103cm h
Heavenly Space 1991 Cast aluminium Height: 165 cm | 65 in
Pewter Pile 1977 Pewter, aluminium rod, cloth Height: 128 cm | 50 in
Walnut Wood Column 1974 Walnut wood Height: 174 cm | 69 in
Installation view, Art & Project. Slootdrop, 1993
Lust 33cm h
Linked Black Blocks 2013 Oil bar on paper 208 × 150 cm | 82 × 59 in
Gluttony 36cm h
Mr and Mrs Pope seen as the motorway system real and imaginary 2008 Ink and gouache on paper 84 × 59 cm | 33 × 23 in (each)
‘I believe or do I’ 1998 Watercolour, ink, glitter on paper 87 × 68 cm | 34 × 27 in
Silver Washbasin Prototype 2002 Glazed and lustred ceramic 62 × 59 cm | 24 × 23 in
Orange Washbasin Prototype 2002 Glazed ceramic 59 × 48 cm | 23 × 19 in
Long Tail Woolie 2003 Felted wool Height: 24 cm | 10 in
Sloth 19cm h
Seven Odd Chalks 1978 Chalk Height: 70 cm | 28 in
Norman, Virginia and Other Members of the Congregation 1986 Congregation 1986
Blue Five Holes 1981 Oil bar on paper 112 × 106 cm | 44 × 42 in
Model for Vrouwe Justitia 1997 Epoxy resin, glitter, glue Height: 27 cm | 11 in
The Large Chalk 1975 Lump chalk and silver birch wood 183 × 488 cm | 72 × 192 in
Big Black Balls 1981 Oil crayon on paper 195 × 470 cm | 77 × 185 in
Untitled Pink 1992 Glazed ceramic Height: 25 cm | 10 in
The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit By Their Own Lamps 1993–96 Terracotta, metal, oil, wick, flames Height: 300 cm | 118 in (approx.) Installation view, Tate Britain, 1996–97
Unreadable Commandment 2 2011 Gouache on paper 59 × 84 cm | 23 × 33 in
Envy Woolie 2004 Felted wool Height: 24 cm | 10 in
Small Arch 1973 Wooden blocks and rope Radius: 183 cm | 72 in
Judas Basin 1995 Oil pastel, gouache, ink, glitter on paper 80 × 120 cm | 32 × 47 in
Ten Commandments Speedo Urinal (Prototype Male Urinal) 2001 Glazed ceramic 84 × 71 cm | 33 × 28 in
Dead Mum with Boys 16.5.07 2007 Gouache on paper 55 × 77 cm | 22 × 30 in
Hoos 1981 Silver birch wood Height: 140 cm | 55 in
White on Black 1985 Woodcut 112 × 180 cm | 44 × 71 in Edition of 7
Pedestal Washbasin Prototype 2002 Glazed ceramic Height: 93 cm | 37 in
Yoo Hoo Too 1981 Pine wood Height: 153 cm | 60 in Neatham Mill Studio, Alton
Moving Into Auto Destruct 1989 Chalk and ink on paper 75 × 54 cm | 30 × 21 in
Blue Two Holes 1981 Oil bar, paper on canvas 197 × 204 cm | 78 × 80 in
Unreadable Commandment ‘Neither shalt thou commit adultery’ 2020 Hand Knotted carpet 118 x 318 cm
Mr and Mrs Pope Spiked and Holed 1987 Painted wood Height: 225 cm | 89 in
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
Maquette for an Unknown Landscape No.1 1983 Wellingtonia wood 240 × 375 cm | 95 × 148 in
Stacked Clay 1976 Wet clay and sticks Height: 183 cm | 72 in
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
Sin 2 2011 Ink and gouache on paper 54 × 75 cm | 21 × 30 in
Leaning Chalk 1975 Lump chalk and stick Height: 183 cm | 72 in
Flying Sculpture 1984 Graphite on paper 57 × 73 cm | 23 × 29 in
Red Ball 1981 Woodcut 130 × 165 cm | 51 × 65 in Artist proof, 1 of 3 editions
Long Larch Line (installation view)1978 British Pavilion, Venice, 1980
Faith 35cm h
Suicide Woolie 2003 Felted mohair Height: 29 cm | 11 in
Unreadable Commandment 1 2011 Gouache on paper 59 × 84 cm | 23 × 33 in
Fifteen Holes 1981 Elm wood Height: 92 cm | 36 in
Mr and Mrs Pope Spiked and Holed h 225 cms painted wood
Dum Dum 1982 Beech wood Height: 160 cm | 63 in
Judas Lips Prototype Washbasin 2002 Glazed ceramic 67 × 60 × 43 cm | 26 × 24 × 17 in
Installation view with The Vicar (1997), Norman, Virginia and Other Members of the Congregation (1986) and The Oxford Conversation (1985) at the artist’s studio, Herefordshire, 1986
Installation view with Three Wood Block (1978), Thirty Wood Block (1978) and Tall Wood Block (1978), Anthony Stokes Gallery, London, 1979
Five Odd Woods 1978 Silver birch wood Height: 23 cm | 9 in
Tongue of Fire 1991 Oil pastel and gouache 118 × 155 cm | 47 × 61 in
Wilderness Block 1980 Forest of Dean stone Height: 42 cm | 17 in
Temperance 45cm h
Model for The Oratory of Heavenly Space 1992 Porcelain Height: 21 cm | 8 in
Model for an Unknown Landscape 1985 Alabaster and painted wood Height: 85 cm | 34 in
Planting plan for the Forest of Dean No.1 1985 Graphite on paper 57 × 73 cm | 23 × 29 in
Three Stone Slabs(installation view) 1978 British Pavilion, Venice, 1980
White Arch (1979) and Large White Column (1979) British Pavilion, Venice, 1980
Ten Commandment Pots 1992 Terracotta Height: 25 cm | 10 in [approx.]
Turn Right 2013 Oil bar on paper 105 × 150 cm | 41 × 59 in
Stacked Lead 1976 Lead, birch wood, bath stone Height: 122 cm | 48 in
Installation view with First Black Wax (1981), Four Wilderness Stones (1980), Odd Elms (1981), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1981
Special Vessels 1973 Paired glass vessels with corks with booklet of letters of production Langly-Dome Enterprises Box size: 10 × 13 × 6 cm | 4 × 5 × 2 in Edition of 50
‘Where are we now’ or stranded in the Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues overlooking the Malvern Hills 1998 Watercolour, ink on paper 93 × 59 cm | 37 × 23 in
Stone Pile 1976 Bath stone Height: 120 cm | 47 in
Elm Wood Column 1974–75 Elm wood Height: 183 cm | 72 in
Small White Lump 1979 Lump chalk Height: 35 cm | 14 in
‘Reredos for the Oratory of Heavenly Space’ Yahweh and the Seraphim digitally superimposed on a wax drawing of the Oratory of Heavenly Space interior 1998 Digital plotter 90 × 128 cm | 35 × 50 in
‘Oblivion’ (detail) Recycling Plant à la Ledoux or A Section ‘106’ Regeneration Project 1999 Watercolour, ink, collage, fake fur on paper 150 × 126 cm | 59 × 46 in
Birch Wood Line 1979 Birch wood Height: 138 cm | 54 in
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues (from above) 2003 Digital virtual image with Broadway Malyan
Small Wall Terracotta 1977 Fired clay Height: 55 cm | 22 in
Flat Pink Dead Dad with Green Sons 2010 Dyed carved and laminated wood Height: 13 cm | 5 in
John the Baptist Pointing the Way Lit by His Own Light 1993–96 Terracotta, metal, oil, wick, flame Height: 235 cm | 93 in
Prudence 36cm h
Anger, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Needles and Pins Searchers 1988 Charcoal on paper 52 × 76 cm | 21 × 30 in
Red Holes 1985 Woodcut 165 × 110 cm | 65 × 44 in Edition of 7
Lust, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Planting plan for the forest No.3 1985 Graphite on paper 57 × 73 cm | 23 × 29 in
Envy Marble 2010 Marble Height: 24 cm | 10 in
The Arch 1973 Oak wood Radius: 274 cm | 108 in Installation view, City of Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery
Virtue 5 2012 Chalk on paper 59 × 84 cm | 23 × 33 in
Yellow, Red, Pink and Black Knitting Pattern2013 Oil bar on paper 192 × 150 cm | 76 × 59 in
I Am Sad Today, Very, Very Sad (Prototype Female Urinal) 2001 Glazed ceramic 50 × 75 cm | 20 × 30 in
Small Flying Sculpture 1984 Biro, watercolour on paper 80 × 120 cm | 31 × 47 in
Covetousness, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Model for an Unknown Landscape No.9 1984 Alabaster and painted wood 55 × 120 cm | 22 × 47 in
Three Dots 2012 Gouache on paper 80 × 54 cm | 32 × 21 in
Hermaphroditic 1992 Oil, chalk, ink on paper 56 × 73 cm | 22 × 29 in
Fortitude, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Black Landscape 1985 Woodcut 163 × 130 cm | 64 × 51 in Edition of 7
Untitled 1982 Chalk polyphant stone Height: 112 cm | 44 in
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues Plasticised Menu Card 1998 Plastic and paper Four pages: 28 × 20 cm | 11 × 8 in (each) Edition of 250 Produced with Kevin Mount
Love, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Pedestal Washbasin 1995 Ink, watercolour, glitter on paper 80 × 120 cm | 32 × 47 in
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues (exterior) 2003 Digital virtual image with Broadway Malyan
Untitled 1978 Graphite on paper 56 × 76 cm | 22 × 30 in
Justice, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Installation view with Tall Chalk (1975), Leaning Chalk (1975), Stacked Lead (1976), Small Chalk (1975), Leaning Column (1975) and Oak Tree Column (1973), Garage Gallery, London, 1976
Mr and Mrs Pope knitted, shrunk and hung 2012 Felted mohair Height: 135 cm | 53 in
Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues (interior) 2003 Digital virtual image with Broadway Malyan
Round Pile 1979 Cypress wood Height: 112 cm | 44 in
Fortitude 20cm h
Liar Liar 2007–09 15 unglazed ceramic figures Height: 73 cm | 29 in (approx.)
Oak Wood Column 1973 Oak wood Height: 171 cm | 67 in
Red, Yellow, Pink, Blue and Black Knitting Pattern 2013 Oil bar on paper 118 × 150 cm | 47 × 59 in
Mary’s Font 1995 Glazed ceramic Height: 150 cm | 59 in
Red Eight Holes 1981 Oil bar on paper 204 × 335 cm | 80 × 132 in
Envy 42cm h
Blue Shape 1985 Woodcut 164 × 128 cm | 65 × 50 in Edition of 5
Yoo Hoo Too 1981 Pine wood Height: 153 cm | 60 in Neatham Mill Studio, Alton
Lust Woolie 2003 Felted wool Height: 22 cm | 9 in
Installation view with Five Elm Lumps (1981), Big Balls (1981), Many Black Holes (1981) and Three Black Lumps (1979), John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, 1982
Pride, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Mrs and Mrs Pope in the Garden Surrounded By the Ten Commandments or Are They Clouds 1991 Cast aluminium Height: 17 cm | 7 in
Flying Sculpture 1985 Biro on paper 172 × 218 cm | 68 × 86 in
Temperance, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Silver Dreams 1987 Painted wood Height: 215 cm | 85 in
Sloth, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Installation views with Hoos (1981), Maquette for an Unknown Landscape (1982), African Woods (1982), Model for an Unknown Landscape No. 2 (1983) and Untitled (1983), Galerij S65, Aalst, 1983
Gluttony, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Four Thin Stones 1978 Forest of Dean stone Height: 85 cm | 33 in
Believers 1998 Pastel, watercolour and collage on paper 150 × 93 cm | 59 × 36 in
Odd Elms 1981 Elm wood 198 × 63 × 21 cm | 78 × 25 × 8 in
Installation views with Hoos (1981), Maquette for an Unknown Landscape (1982), African Woods (1982), Model for an Unknown Landscape No. 2 (1983) and Untitled (1983), Galerij S65, Aalst, 1983
Faith, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Installation view with Wilderness Block (1980), Three Large Wilderness Stones (1980) and Large Charcoal Lump (1980) Art & Project, Amsterdam, 1981
All Lost In Space, 2020 Hand Knotted carpet 200x200cm
Judas Font 1995 Glazed ceramic Height: 75 cm | 30 in
The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit by Their Own Lamps 1993–96 Terracotta, metal, oil, wick and flames Height: 300 cm | 118 in (approx.) Installation view, Archipelag Ferdinand Boberg’s Power Station, Skansen, Stockholm, 1998
Hope, 102×150, oil bar, 2015
Unisex Pyramid Pissing or a Ponzi Piss at the msa 1997 Pastel, watercolour, glitter on paper 69 × 49 cm | 27 × 19 in
Long Larch Line 1978 Larch wood Height: 170 cm | 67 in
Yellow and Green should Never be Seen 2020 480 x 315 cm
Vrouwe Justitia 1998 Fibre concrete, dye, steel Height: 27m | 89 ft Installation view, Utrecht Court House Square, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Drooping Column 1975 Wood and rope Height: 183 cm | 72 in
Black and White Spotted 1992 Porcelain Height: 33 cm | 13 in
Pride 74cm h
Four Yellow Holes on Red 1982 Watercolour on paper 120 × 80 cm | 47 × 31 in
Two Stacks 1976 Lead, bath stone Height: 96 cm | 38 in
left to right: Judas Font 1995,Glazed ceramic, Height: 75 cm | 29 in Apostles Piss Font 1995, Glazed ceramic, Height: 150 cm | 59 in Hermaphroditic Font 1995, Glazed ceramic, Height: 125 cm | 49 in
Installation view with Seven Odd Chalks (1978), Four Thin Stones (1978), Three Odd Woods (1978), Five Odd Woods (1978) and Three Stone Slabs (1978), Art & Project, Amsterdam, 1978
‘The Mountains were bored through with Monstrous orifices’ Woolie 2002 Felted mohair 33 × 103 cm | 13 × 41 in
Mr and Mrs Pope Lit from Within 2009 Porcelain and electric light Height: 166 cm | 46 in
Eight Black Holes 1981 Oil bar on paper 206 × 160 cm | 81 × 63 in
Gluttony 2007 Porcelain Height: 27 cm | 11 in
Nine Pines 1981 Pine wood Height: 89 cm | 35 in
Mr and Mrs Arnolfini 1978 Forest of Dean stone Height: 153 cm | 60 in
Gold and White Shapes 1985 Woodcut 111 × 182 cm | 44 × 72 in Edition of 7
The mountains were bored through with monstrous orifices 1998 Pastel, watercolour, ink on paper 117 × 150 cm | 46 × 59 in
The Ten Commandments in Flowing Light 1996–97 Porcelain, metal, cloth, polystyrene, aluminium foil 300 × 600 cm | 118 × 236 in
Yellow, Black and Pink Knitting Pattern 2012 Oil bar on paper 150 × 226 cm | 59 × 89 in
Dead Mum Surrounded By Her Sons 2009 Epoxy resin Height: 88 cm | 35 in
Black Holes White Dots 2010 Ink and gouache on paper 150 × 127 cm | 59 × 50 in
Medlar Woolie 2003 Felted wool Height: 25 cm | 10 in
Hope 33cm h
39 Maple Blocks 1978 Maple wood Overall: 60 × 1830 cm | 24 × 721 in
Suicide Marble 2009 Marble Height: 22 cm | 9 in
Apostle Tree 1991 Cast aluminium Height: 152 cm | 60 in
The Church, The Village and Myself 1986 Painted wood Height: 226 cm | 89 in
Installation view with Odd Lumps (1981), Stone Pile (1976), Apple Pie (1978), Three Large Wilderness Stones (1980) and Two Red Holes (1981), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1981
Model for a Small Landscape 1984 Soapstone and wood Height: 95 cm | 37 in
Justice 35cm h
Two Points 2 1979 Lump chalk Height: 41 cm | 16 in
Eight Red Holes with Dots 2010 Gouache on paper 59 × 84 cm | 23 × 33 in
Ten Commandment Pots (King James Version, kitchenware) 1994 Raku-fired ceramic Height: 103 cm | 41 in
The Vicar 1997 Carved and painted wood Height: 280 cm | 110 in
Model for Unknown Landscape No.7 1984 Soapstone and walnut wood Height: 125 cm | 49 in
Thirty Wood Block 1978 Silver birch wood Height: 84 cm | 33 in
Mr and Mrs Pope with Holes 1985 Painted wood Height: 75 cm | 30 in
Friendly Urinal Six Pisser (Prototype Male Urinal) 2001 Glazed ceramic 80 × 45 cm | 32 × 18 in
Tongues of Fire from Heaven to Earth 1992 Porcelain Height: 55 cm | 22 in
Mr and Mrs Pope vased and flowered 2016 glass h.41cm
Love 17cm h
Small Ten Commandments in Flight 1992 Porcelain Height: 42 cm | 17 in
Installation view with White Arch (1979), Large White Column (1979), Bent White Lump (1979), Tall Wood Block (1978), Round Pile (1979) and Apple Pile (1978), Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1979
Oak Tree Column 1973 Oak wood Height: 213 cm | 84 in
Envy, 150×102, oil bar, 2015
Envy 2007 Porcelain Height: 39 cm | 15 in

 

 

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Nicholas Pope

Nicholas Pope (b. 1949) is one of a generation of talented British sculptors who acquired national and international prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Like others, such as Tony Cragg (b. 1949), Richard Deacon (b 1948), Bill Woodrow (b. 1947), Antony Gormley (b. 1951) and Edward Allington (b. 1951), Pope was interested in making sculpture that departed from the boxy geometrical object orders of American Minimalism and resulted from a direct, physical and emotional engagement with materials.

He worked on both large and small scale, carving wood, chalk and stone, whilst also working in lead and terracotta. He soon became known for his compelling lumpen forms, as well as for his columns and arches. In these works, he explored the precariousness of stacking, using rope to coordinate his sculptures’ gravity-defying logic and heighten the inbuilt tension of their compositions.

Pope was student of Bath Academy at Corsham (1970-73) and soon travelled on a number of scholarships abroad, including to Romania in 1974 and 1975, where his passion for Brancusi’s heritage further developed. Pope’s Oak Wood Column was included in The Condition of Sculpture (1975) at the Hayward Gallery in London, selected by the sculptor William Tucker, and Pope’s sculptures were shown in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1980. That year Pope’s work was also shown across the USA in the British Art Now: An American Perspective touring exhibition.

In the early 1980s Pope’s life changed when, after visiting the Mbawala sculptors in the Ruvuma Valley in Tanzania, he contracted an encephalitic virus. Pope gradually came through this debilitating disease, looking determinedly ahead and learning again how to draw and write, think and make. Working on paper took on new meaning and, as well as making drawings and woodcuts, he carved some models for unknown landscapes in wood and alabaster.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Pope produced some of the most extraordinary artwork that he had made in his career up to that point. Eschewing the natural palette of his early work, he made works that were bright and bold, amorphous and effusive, crude and unabashed, as he took matters of life, sex and death head on – with a passion and a vengeance. Narrative acquired new importance as he explored the power of belief, reshaping its forms and translating its religious iconographies into ceramic, epoxy resin and oil pastel. He revisited its established allegories with newer story-lines that take us at once into the heart of the family home and out onto the open road. Amongst his works from these recent years, we find his ‘Motorway Service Station of the Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Virtues’. We also watch as he embarks on new sculptures within his ongoing ‘Mr & Mrs Pope’ series of works, in which he depicts both himself and his late wife Janet together – and in different guises and diverse materials – across their married life, from the 1970s into the present.

Nicholas Pope is presently working on a series of new exhibitions staged in the summer of 2021 at The Holburne Museum in Bath, the New Art Centre at Roche Court and The Sunday Painter in Stockwell. Pope has also just completed a commission for Hellens Manor in his home village of Much Marcle, The commission “Weird” was made during the pandemic and inaugurates a biennial sculpture commission at Hellens for young artists. This mirrors Hellens Music Festival’s established tradition of fostering young musicians.

Nicholas Pope’s book is available now….

Liar Liar 2007–09 15 unglazed ceramic figures Height: 73 cm | 29 in (approx.)

Liar Liar 2007–09
15 unglazed ceramic figures
Height: 73 cm | 29 in (approx.)

The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit By Their Own Lamps 1993–96

The Apostles Speaking in Tongues
Lit By Their Own Lamps 1993–96
Terracotta, metal, oil, wick, flames
Height: 300 cm | 118 in (approx.)
Installation view, Tate Britain, 1996–97

Pentecost: The Apostles Speaking in Tongues

Pentecost: The Apostles Speaking in Tongues

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Salisbury Cathedral | May 24th to August 3rd

Exhibition has now ended

Pentecost: The Apostles Speaking in Tongues is a group of 33 dramatic terracotta figures last seen in the UK in 1996 as part of the Tate’s Art Now series.

The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit By Their Own Lamps can be seen at Salisbury Cathedral from Saturday 24 May until Sunday 3 August. Recommended viewing times are Monday-Saturday 9.30am – 5.00pm and Sunday 12.00noon – 4.00pm (services are held at 8.00am, 9.15am, 10.30am and 4.30pm).  The lamps will be lit three times daily.

Salisbury Cathedral, 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2EF

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New Art Centre

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Nicholas Pope: Works and Days

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New Art Centre
Exhibition has now ended

The exhibition will be opened at 12.30pm by
Professor Andrew Causey and Richard Deacon, CBE

Roche Court
East Winterslow
Salisbury, Wiltshire
SP5 1BG

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A One Day Walk

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‘A One Day Walk’

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At the Kroller Muller Mueseum

Under the title A One Day Walk, which derives from a work by Hamish Fulton,
the museum will exhibit around fifty works by Anthony Caro, Philip King,
Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, Nicholas Pope, Barry Flanagan, Tony Cragg and Bill Woodrow.

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Kröller-Müller Museum
Houtkampweg 6
6731 AW Otterlo

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Nicholas Pope: 5 x 5

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Nicholas Pope: 5 x 5

University of the arts London
LVMH Lecture Theatre
Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, London
N1C 4AA

06 Mar 2014 18:30

A panel discussion studies five groups of works by celebrated British artist Nicholas Pope
with William Cobbing, Mark Dunhill, Fedja Klikovac, Frances Morris and Dr Joy Sleeman.

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