Nicholas Monro
{{Short description|British artist (1936–2022)}}
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Nicholas Monro (1936{{cite web |title=Nicholas Monro Biography |url=http://www.richardsaltoun.com/nicholas-monro-biography/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331015053/http://www.richardsaltoun.com/nicholas-monro-biography/ |archivedate=31 March 2012 |accessdate=22 August 2011 |df=dmy-all}} – 2022){{Cite web |date=2022-11-11 |title=The Contraption – A tribute to Nicholas Monro 1936 – 2022 |url=https://walkspace.uk/2022/11/11/the-contraption-a-tribute-to-nicholas-monro-1936-2022/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Walkspace |language=en-GB}} was an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher.{{cite web|url=http://www.alanwheatleyart.com/awa_artists_bio.php?id=156&catid=0|title=Nicholas MONRO (British, b.1936)|accessdate=22 August 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317165800/http://www.alanwheatleyart.com/awa_artists_bio.php?id=156&catid=0|archivedate=17 March 2012|df=dmy-all}} He is known for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture and is known for his use of fibreglass.
Life and work
Monro studied art at the Chelsea School of Art from 1958 to 1961. After graduating he began teaching at Swindon School of Art, then returned to Chelsea School of Art in 1968.
In 1969 he received an Arts Council Award{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/art/artist/nicholasmonro/|title=University of Warwick Art Collection – Artists – Nicholas Monro|publisher=University of Warwick|accessdate=22 August 2011}} and was included in the exhibition Pop Art Re-Assessed at the Hayward Gallery.
In the early 1970s, he had a studio at Hungerford.Radio Birmingham interview with Munro, 11 May 1972, transcribed in part in {{cite journal|last=Towers|first=Alan|date=July–August 1972|title=Birmingham: Nicholas Munro|journal=Studio International|volume=184|issue=946|page=18}}
His work was included in the 2004 pop art retrospective "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow" at Tate Britain, and Birmingham Gas Hall{{cite web|url=http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/west+midlands/birmingham/art22940|title=Art & The 60s: This Was Tomorrow at Tate Britain|last=Chare|first=Sara|date=5 July 2004|work=Culture24|accessdate=22 August 2011}} and, in the same year, "British Pop Art 1956–1972" at the {{Lang|it|Galleria Civica di Modena}}.
Public collections
Monro's works are in the collections of the Berardo Collection Museum, Tate Modern and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Key works
File:Kong (2).jpg, at Penrith, in April 2008]]
- Money Bags, painted fibreglass (1965){{cite web|url=http://www.art49.com/art49/art49london.nsf/0/6A91BC0DEEB46FE7C12571F800663639?OpenDocument&lang=CH|title=London in the 60's|work=Art49|accessdate=22 August 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008075611/http://www.art49.com/art49/art49london.nsf/0/6A91BC0DEEB46FE7C12571F800663639?OpenDocument&lang=CH|archivedate=8 October 2011|df=dmy-all}}
- Flock of Sheep, painted fibreglass, (1968) – now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany{{cite web|url=http://www.musenblaetter.de/artikel.php?aid=4193|title=Von der Heydt-Museum zeigt Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart|work={{Lang|de|Musenblätter}}|accessdate=22 August 2011}} {{in lang|de}}
- Statue of King Kong, painted fibreglass, (1972){{cite book|last=Noszlopy|first=George T.|title=Public Sculpture of Birmingham including Sutton Coldfield|publisher=Liverpool University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/publicsculptureo0000nosz/page/170 170]|year=1998|series=Public Sculpture of Britain|volume=2|isbn=0-85323-682-8|url=https://archive.org/details/publicsculptureo0000nosz/page/170}}
- The Sand Dancers (a statue of Wilson, Keppel and Betty), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.{{cite web|url=http://www.superhumanism.eu/art-collection/nicholas-monro/|title=Nicholas Monro {{!}} Treadwells|accessdate=22 August 2011}}
- Bust of Max Wall, painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christie's, London, on 23 August 2011{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5466962|title=Sale 2019, Lot 309|publisher=Christie's|accessdate=22 August 2011}}
- 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{{cite web|url=http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=19|publisher=morecambeandwise.com|title= The Other Statue |accessdate=29 March 2013}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161116101429/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-11051972-king-kong-statue-in-birmingham/MediaEntry/17400.html Film interview with Monro] filmed by ATV in Birmingham, in 1972
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999979&artistid=1654&page=1 Monro prints in the Rose and Chris Prater gift, at Tate]
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Category:English male sculptors
Category:Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
Category:British art educators
Category:20th-century English educators
Category:People from Hungerford