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Photo © Toby Coulson 2019
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"As the five-century arc of its title would suggest, Nick Hornby’s exhibition at Churner and Churner, ‘Sculpture, 1504–2013,’ made no bones about its ambition, even by means of a few, discreet works.[...]This recent body of work seems more predominantly concerned with a rigorous approach to subtractive form, and a play between corporeal figuration and geometric abstraction. The results so far have been outstanding."
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Select Exhibitions
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Zygotes and Confessions
MOSTYN, Wales 14 November 2020 - 18 April 2021Hornby brings high-tech processes to figuration, pulling historical, material forms into the era of screen culture. His works defy conventional distinctions of form and media and exhibit instead what Hornby... -
Atom vs Super Subject
Alexia Goethe Gallery, London 21 May - 9 July 2010Hornby practices sculpture as inquiry, challenging the icon with its own evocative, metonymic fragment: white abstract sculptures, ranging in size from the small bust to the public monument, from the... -
Twofold
Harlow 13 November 2019 - 31 October 2020Nick Hornby’s largest sculpture to date titled Twofold was commissioned by Harlow Art Trust. It is the 100th piece in Harlow’s public sculpture collection which includes works by Auguste Rodin,...
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Selected Press
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Publications
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Monograph, published by Anomie December 2022
"Nick Hornby is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and contemporary technology. This, his first major monograph, features a foreword by Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, an essay by Dr Hannah Higham, Senior Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation, and an interview with Dr Helen Pheby, Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
256pp + 4pp covers Hardback, 280 × 245 mm (p) c. 175 colour ISBN: 978-1-910221-24-2 RRP: £35 / €40 / $45 UK Release: 8 December 2022 US Release: 29 December 2022 Edited by Matt Price Designed by Herman Lelie Printed by EBS, Verona, Italy Published by Anomie Publishing, UK Distributed by Casemate Art Images © Nick Hornby. Courtesy the artist. Photography by Ben Westoby, Peter Mallet and Studio Nick Hornby.
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Catalogue, published by MOSTYN Gallery and Anomie January 2021
Nick Hornby Zygotes and Confessions
A publication to accompany the first solo exhibition at a public institution by the London-based sculptor
Texts by Helen Boyd Alfredo Cramerotti Matt Price
80pp + 8pp covers Softback 230 x 190 mm (p) c.38 images
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