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 20091979, 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