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)
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
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