Nicholas Pope

Born 1949 Sydney, Australia
Lives and works in Ledbury and London, UK

 

Education

1973 Bath Academy of Art, Bath, UK,
1975 British Council Exchange Scholarship at Institul de Arte Plastice 'Nicolae Griorescu'

Bucuresti, Republica Socialista Romania

 

Selected solo exhibitions

Portraits of a Marraige, Holburne Museum, Bath, UK 2021

Heavenly Space, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK, 2021

Take Off, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2021

Frieze London with The Sunday Painter, UK 2019

Sins and Virtues, The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2018

Nicholas Pope, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK 2014

Nichoals Pope: The Apostled Speaking in Tongues, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, UK 2014 

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

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

My Three Fates, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK 2003
The Ten Commandments in Flowing Light, Art & Project, Slootdorp, Netherlands 2001

The Painted Room, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Ledbury, UK 1998
Art & Project, Slootdorp, Netherlands 1997
Art Now: Nicholas Pope: The Apostles Speaking in Tongues, Tate Britian, London, UK 1996

Art & Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1992

British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT, 1989
Waddington Galleries, London, UK 1986
Art & Project, Amsterdam, NL, 1985

Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Waddington Galleries, London, UK, 1984

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium 1984

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

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium 1982

Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1981

Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands, 1981

Anthony Stokes Gallery, London, UK 1979

Art & Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1979

Anthony Stokes Gallery, London, UK 1979
Art & Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1979

Gallery A, Sydney, Australia 1979

Garage Gallery, London, UK 1976
City of Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, UK 1976

 

Selected group exhibitions

Frieze London with The Sunday Painter, London, UK 2023

Dirty Work, Art Station, Saxmundham, UK 2022

Sticky Intimacy, Chapter, Cardiff, UK 2016

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

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

Super Farmers' Market, Handel Street Projects, London, UK 2010

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

Clay, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK 2009

1979, Bloomberg Space, London, UK 2005

Ramen Windows, The Edams Museum, Edam, Netherlands 2003

Mixed Exhibition, Bernarnd Jacobson Gallery, London, UK 2003

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

Simply British: Flanagan, Long and Pope, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands 2001
Fine Edge, Leominster, UK 1999
Arkipelag, Stockholm, Sweden 1998
Sculpturen uit de collectie van Marlies en Jo Eyck, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands 1995

Festival Sculpture, International Garden Festival, Liverpool, UK 1994

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

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

Les Maîtres de Forme Contemporains, Brussels, Belgium 1988

The Artist's Notebook, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France 1987

Galerie Akiyama, Tokyo and Carved Wood, Contemporary Applied Arts, London, UK 1987

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

Groups VII, Waddington Galleries, London, UK 1984
The Becht Collection, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1984

London Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf, London, UK 1984

Groups VI, Waddington Galleries, London, UK 1983

Woodworks, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK 1983

Drawing in Air, Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland, UK 1983

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

British Art Now: An American Perspective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, US, 1980

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA 1980

Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, GA, USA 1980

University Art Museum, Austin, TX, USA; and Royal Academy of Art, London, UK, 1980
New Image, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy 1980

Nature as Material, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition, UK 1980

Sculptors' Drawings, The Minories, Colchester, UK 1979
First International Young Artist Triennial of Drawing, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany 1979
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Second National Exhibition, Castle Museum, Norwich;

Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Camden Arts Centre, London and Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 1979

Style in the Seventies, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 1979

British Art Now, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1979

Laing Gallery, Newcastle; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Arnolfini, Bristol and Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK,1979

A Critic's Choice, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK, 1978

Taranman Gallery, London, UK, 1978

A Free Hand, Arts Centre Gallery, Chester; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1978

Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK 1978

Great Yarmouth Exhibition Centre, Great Yarmouth, UK 1978

Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK 1978

Stephanie Bergman and Nicholas Pope, Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK 1977
Carving: An Exhibition of Carved Wood and Stone Sculpture, Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK 1977

Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, UK, 1977

On Site, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 1977
Summer Show 3, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 1976

Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 1976
The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 1975
City Art Project: Portsmouth and Southsea, Portsmouth City Museums, Portsmouth, UK 1974

Festival Gallery, Bath, UK 1973

 

Residencies and Committees
Visiting Artist, Victoria College, Melbourne, Australia 1992
Artist in Residence, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 1984-85
British Council Cultural Visitor to Zimbabwe 1981
Member of the Serpentine Gallery Committee and Arts Council Art Panel 1979-81
British Representative Commonwealth Games Sculpture Symposium, Edmonton, Canada 1978

Chairman and Member of Southern Arts Association Art Panel 1976-81
British Council Cultural Visitor to Romania 1976

 

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, USA
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
Wakefield Art Gallery, Wakefield, UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK