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]

Life and work

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

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)^[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 Morecambe & 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

1. "Nicholas Monro Biography". Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
2. "Nicholas MONRO (British, b.1936)". Archived from the original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
3. "University of Warwick Art Collection – Artists – Nicholas Monro". University of Warwick. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
4. Radio Birmingham interview with Munro, 11 May 1972, transcribed in part in Towers, Alan (July–August 1972). "Birmingham: Nicholas Munro". Studio International. 184 (946): 18.
5. Chare, Sara (5 July 2004). "Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow at Tate Britain". Culture24. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
6. "London in the 60's". Art49. Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
7. "Von der Heydt-Museum zeigt Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart". Musenblätter. Retrieved 22 August 2011. (in German)
8. Noszlopy, George T. (1998). Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield. Public Sculpture of Britain. Vol. 2. Liverpool University Press. p. 170. ISBN 0-85323-682-8.
9. "Nicholas Monro | Treadwells". Retrieved 22 August 2011.
10. "Sale 2019, Lot 309". Christie's. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
11. "The Other Statue". morecambeandwise.com. Retrieved 29 March 2013.

External links

• Film interview with Monro filmed by ATV in Birmingham, in 1972
• Monro prints in the Rose and Chris Prater gift, at Tate