Nicholas Monro

{{Short description|British artist (1936–2022)}} {{Use British English|date=October 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Nicholas Monro | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1936 | birth_place = | death_date = 2022 | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | monuments = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = Chelsea School of Art | occupation = {{Unbulleted list| Sculptor | Print-maker | Art teacher }} | years_active = | employer = Chelsea School of Art | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = Pop art | television = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = | website =  }}

'''Nicholas Monro''' (1936<ref name="Saltoun">{{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}}</ref> – 2022)<ref>{{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}}</ref> was an English pop art sculptor, print-maker and art teacher.<ref name="Wheatley">{{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}}</ref> He is known for being one of the few British pop artists to work in sculpture<ref name="Wheatley" /> and is known for his use of fibreglass.<ref name="Wheatley" />

==Life and work== Monro studied art at the Chelsea School of Art<ref name="Wheatley" /> from 1958 to 1961.<ref name="Saltoun" /> After graduating he began teaching at Swindon School of Art,<ref name="Wheatley" /> then returned to Chelsea School of Art in 1968.<ref name="Wheatley" />

In 1969 he received an Arts Council Award<ref name="UoW">{{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}}</ref> and was included in the exhibition ''Pop Art Re-Assessed'' at the Hayward Gallery.<ref name="UoW" />

In the early 1970s, he had a studio at Hungerford.<ref name="Towers">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}}</ref>

His work was included in the 2004 pop art retrospective "Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow" at Tate Britain,<ref name="Saltoun" /> and Birmingham Gas Hall<ref name="Chare">{{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}}</ref> and, in the same year, "British Pop Art 1956–1972" at the {{Lang|it|Galleria Civica di Modena}}.<ref name="Wheatley" />

== Public collections ==

Monro's works are in the collections of the Berardo Collection Museum, Tate Modern and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.<ref name="Wheatley" />

== Key works == [[File:Kong (2).jpg|thumb|right|The repaired and repainted Statue of King Kong, at Penrith, in April 2008]]

* ''Money Bags'', painted fibreglass (1965)<ref name="Art49">{{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}}</ref> * ''Flock of Sheep'', painted fibreglass, (1968) – now in a private collection in Wuppertal, Germany<ref name="Musenblaetter">{{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}}</ref> * Statue of King Kong, painted fibreglass, (1972)<ref name="Noszlopy">{{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}}</ref> * ''The Sand Dancers'' (a statue of Wilson, Keppel and Betty), made for the Sands Hotel, Edinburgh, now part of the Treadwell Collection.<ref name="Treadwells">{{cite web|url=http://www.superhumanism.eu/art-collection/nicholas-monro/|title=Nicholas Monro {{!}} Treadwells|accessdate=22 August 2011}}</ref> * Bust of Max Wall, painted fibreglass, sold for £6,875 ($11,323) at Christie's, London, on 23 August 2011<ref name="Christie's">{{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}}</ref> * 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<ref name="morecambeandwise.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=19|publisher=morecambeandwise.com|title= The Other Statue |accessdate=29 March 2013}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== 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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