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Nicholas Monro

Nicholas Monro (born London,[1] 1936,[1] died 2022) was an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher.[2] He is known for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture[2] and is known for his use of fibreglass.[2]

Nicholas Monro

1936

2022

English

Chelsea School of Art

Chelsea School of Art

Pop art

Life and work[edit]

Monro studied art at the Chelsea School of Art[2] from 1958 to 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[edit]

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

Money Bags, painted fibreglass (1965)

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Flock of Sheep, painted fibreglass, (1968) – now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany

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painted fibreglass, (1972)[8]

Statue of King Kong

The Sand Dancers (a statue of ), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.[9]

Wilson, Keppel and Betty

Bust of , painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christie's, London, on 23 August 2011[10]

Max Wall

Statue of & 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]

Eric Morecambe

filmed by ATV in Birmingham, in 1972

Film interview with Monro

Monro prints in the Rose and Chris Prater gift, at Tate