Nicholas Monro

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Nicholas Monro
Born 1936
Nationality English
Alma mater Chelsea School of Art
Occupation
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]

In the early 1970s, he had a studio at Hungerford.[4]

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[5] and, in the same year, "British Pop Art 1956-1972" at the Galleria Civica di Modena.[2]

Public collections

Monro's works are in the collections of the Berardo Collection Museum, Tate Modern and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.[2]

Key works

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The repaired and repainted Statue of King Kong, at Penrith, in April 2008
  • Money Bags, painted fibreglass (1965)[6]
  • Flock of Sheep, painted fibreglass, (1968) - now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany[7]
  • Statue of King Kong, painted fibreglass, (1972)[8]
  • The Sand Dancers (a statue of Wilson, Keppel and Betty), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.[9]
  • Bust of Max Wall, painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christie's, London, on 23 August 2011[10]
  • Statue of Eric Morecombe & Ernie Wise, in painted fibreglass, commissioned in 1977 by the Arts Council, this statue was to form part of the British Genius exhibition at Battersea Park, London[11]

References

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