Nicholas Monro

Nicholas Monro (1936^[1] – 2022)^[2] was an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher.^[3] He is known for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture^[3] and is known for his use of fibreglass.^[3]

Nicholas Monro
Born	1936
Died	2022
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Chelsea School of Art
Occupations	Sculptor Print-maker Art teacher
Employer	Chelsea School of Art
Style	Pop art

Life and work

Monro studied art at the Chelsea School of Art^[3] from 1958 to 1961.^[1] After graduating he began teaching at Swindon School of Art,^[3] then returned to Chelsea School of Art in 1968.^[3]

In 1969 he received an Arts Council Award^[4] and was included in the exhibition Pop Art Re-Assessed at the Hayward Gallery.^[4]

In the early 1970s, he had a studio at Hungerford.^[5]

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^[6] and, in the same year, "British Pop Art 1956–1972" at the Galleria Civica di Modena.^[3]

Public collections

Monro's works are in the collections of the Berardo Collection Museum, Tate Modern and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.^[3]

Key works

The repaired and repainted Statue of King Kong, at Penrith, in April 2008

• Money Bags, painted fibreglass (1965)^[7]
• Flock of Sheep, painted fibreglass, (1968) – now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany^[8]
• Statue of King Kong, painted fibreglass, (1972)^[9]
• The Sand Dancers (a statue of Wilson, Keppel and Betty), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.^[10]
• Bust of Max Wall, painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christie's, London, on 23 August 2011^[11]
• 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^[12]