- Nicholas Monro
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Nicholas Monro Born 1936 Nationality English Alma mater Chelsea School of Art Occupation - Sculptor
- Print-maker
- Art teacher
Employer Chelsea School of Art Style Pop art Nicholas Monro (born London,[1] 1936[1]) is an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher.[2] He is notable for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture[2] and is known for his use of fibreglass.[2]
Monro studied art at the Chelsea School of Art[2] from 1958-1961.[1] After graduating he began teaching at Swindon School of Art,[2] then returned to Chelsea School of Art in 1968.[2]
In 1969 he received an Arts Council Award[3] and was included in the exhibition Pop Art Re-Assessed at the Hayward Gallery.[3]
His work was included in the 2004 pop art retrospective "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow" at Tate Britain,[1] and Birmingham Gas Hall[4] and, in the same year, "British Pop Art 1956-1972" at the Galleria Civica di Modena.[2]
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Public Collections
Monro's works are in the collections of the Berardo Collection Museum, Tate Modern and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.[2]
Key works
The repaired and repainted Statue of King Kong, at Penrith, in April 2008
- Money Bags, painted fibreglass (1965)[5]
- Flock of Sheep, painted fibreglass, (1968) - now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany[6]
- Statue of King Kong, painted fibreglass, (1972)[7]
- The Sand Dancers (a statue of Wilson, Keppel and Betty), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.[8]
- Bust of Max Wall, painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christies, London, on 23 August 2011[9]
References
- ^ a b c d "Nicholas Monro Biography". http://www.richardsaltoun.com/nicholas-monro-biography/. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Nicholas MONRO (British, b.1936)". http://www.alanwheatleyart.com/awa_artists_bio.php?id=156&catid=0. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ a b "University of Warwick Art Collection - Artists - Nicholas Monro". University of Warwick. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/nicholasmonro/. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ Chare, Sara (2004-07-05). "Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow At Tate Britain". Culture24. http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/west+midlands/birmingham/art22940. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ "London in the 60's". Art49. http://www.art49.com/art49/art49london.nsf/0/6A91BC0DEEB46FE7C12571F800663639?OpenDocument&lang=CH. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ "Von der Heydt-Museum zeigt Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart". Musenblätter. http://www.musenblaetter.de/artikel.php?aid=4193. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ Noszlopy, George T. (1998). Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield. Public Scupture of Britain. 2. Liverpool University Press. p. 170. ISBN 0853236828.
- ^ "Nicholas Monro". http://www.superhumanism.eu/art-collection/nicholas-monro/. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ "Sale 2019, Lot 309". Christies. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5466962. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
External links
Categories:- 1936 births
- Pop artists
- English sculptors
- Alumni of Chelsea College of Art & Design
- Art educators
- English educators
- Living people
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