Nicholas Sinclair

For other people named Nicholas Sinclair, see Nicholas Sinclair (disambiguation).

Nicholas Sinclair (born 1954) is a British portrait^[1][2] and landscape photographer. His work has been published in a number of books of his own, exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery in London.^[3] The art is held in the permanent collections there^[3] and in the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[4] London. In 2003, he was made a Hasselblad Master.^[3]

Nicholas Sinclair
Sinclair in black-and-white
Born	1954 (1954) London, Britain
Occupation(s)	Portrait photographer and landscape photographer

Life and work

Sinclair was born in London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University.

His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus^[1] which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography.^{[citation needed]}

He is known principally as a portrait photographer, his subjects include Anthony Caro, Frank Auerbach, John Piper and Paula Rego.^[1][2] He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Kyffin Williams and made portraits of him.^[1]

Sinclair also makes landscape photographs. He has made two books, one on European cities and the other on a lake.

Sinclair now lives between the cities of Brighton, England, and Berlin, Germany.^[5]

Publications

Publications by Sinclair

• The Chameleon Body. London: Lund Humphries, 1996. ISBN 0-85331-6961. With essays by David Alan Mellor and Anthony Shelton.
• Franko B. London: Black Dog, 1998. ISBN 1-901033-55-4. With essays by Stuart Morgan and Lois Keidan.
• Portraits of Artists. London: Lund Humphries, 2000. ISBN 0-85331-799-2. With an essay by Ian Jeffrey, and a conversation between Sinclair and Robin Dance.
• Crossing the Water. Brighton: Photoworks, 2002. ISBN 1-903796-02-4. With an essay by David Alan Mellor and an afterword by Ian Jeffrey.
• Berlin: Imagining the Tri Chord. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905711-10-9. With an essay by David Chandler.
• Five Cities. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2010. ISBN 978-1-905711-57-4. With an essay by Nicky Hamlyn.

Publications edited by Sinclair

• John Holloway Downlandscapes. Self-published, 2004. ISBN 09522338-1-9.
• Kyffin Williams. London: Lund Humphries, 2004. ISBN 1-85437-511-3.
• The Art of Kyffin Williams. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905711-00-0.

Awards

In 2003, he won the Hasselblad Masters Award.^[3]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1983: Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton^{[citation needed]}
• 2014: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester^[1][2]

Other exhibitions

His work has been exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery, London.^[3]

Collections

Sinclair's work is held in these permanent collections:

• National Portrait Gallery, London^[3]
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy.^[1]
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[4]