Nicky Hirst
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Nottingham in 1963
1981-82
Foundation Course
Jacob Kramer College, Leeds
1982-85
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Maidstone College of Art
1993-94
MA Art and Architecture
Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury
Solo Exhibitions
2001
Anthony Wilkins Gallery, London
2000
Fellowship Exhibition, Byram Shaw School of Art, London
1997
Perforated Observations, a series of drawings, inIVA Archive, London
1996
Cell 3, Barbican Foyer Gallery, London
Cordon Sanitaire, Imperial War Museum, London
Anthony Wilkins Fine Art, London
1995
Limited Edition Multiple, Soho House, London
1994
Wall Drawing, Homerton Hospital, London
Wall Drawing, Darlington Art Centre
1993
Tongue and Groove, 181 Gallery, London
Caught Looking, Dash Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
Fabric, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Viewpoints, Eagle Gallery, London
showhouse, PM Gallery and House, London
Prospects 2002, Essor Gallery Projects Space, London
2001
The End is Nigh, CSKX, London
1999
East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Day for Night, Museum of Installation, London
Ninenineninetynine, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London to be continued > The New Art Gallery Walsall Project, Walsall
Manufacturers, Childers Street, London
1998
One Room, The Factory, Shepherdess Walk, London
1997
WheNever, Commercial Too, London
Home, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans
Musee Imaginaire, part 2, Museum of Installation, London
A Cloudburst of Material Possessions: A Fantasy on a Drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci, touring
1996
Whitechapel Open, Commercial Too, London
Between Patients, 10 Swan Yard, London
1995
Konrad Lorenzo's Duck, Ex Lanificio Bona, touring
House No Garden, CSKX, London
1994
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
University Art Gallery, Leeds
1993
Pet Show, 69 Union Street, London
Snapshots, presented by Anthony Wilkinson at the Eagle Gallery, London
Peripheral States, curated by Sarah Kent at Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1992
Brick Lane Open (1), Heritage Centre, London
CSKX Studios, London
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991
Adam Gallery, London
South Bank Picture Show, Royal Festival Hall, London
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
1990
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1988
The Green Room, Manchester
University Art Gallery, Leeds
1987
New Art in Yorkshire, Leeds City Art Gallery
Surrealism Surveyed: Responses to an Exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery
1986
Open Art '86, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Home is where the art is (should be), St. Pauls Gallery, London
Fellowships and Awards
2000
Artist Fellowship, Byam Shaw School of Art, London
Sustrans Public Art Commission, Nottingham
1997-99
RSA Art for Architecture Award to collaborate with architects Stillman Eastwick-Field Partnership
1997-99
Public Art Development Trust (PADT) and the Kings Fund, commission to collaborate with Mark Francis on a series of works for 'Art in Hospitals'
1997
Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) Artist in Research with architects Stillman Eastwick-Field Partnership
Collections
Arthur Anderson & Co.
Arts Council Collection
Bradford Metropolitan Council Collection
BUPA London
Doncaster Borough Council Collection
Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council Collection
Saatchi Collection, London
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Bibliography
The Saatchi Gift to the Arts Council Collection, ISBN 1-85332-207-5
Artist-in-Research 1996-1998, inIVA publication ISBN 1-899846-24-7
Day for Night, Museum of Installation 1999 ISBN 1-903209-00-5
Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade 1999 ISBN 1-861540-33-7
Public Art Journal, March 1999, Art for Architecture by Jonathan Darke, pages 22-25
Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden 1999 ISBN 88-86429-35-5
RSA Journal 4/4 1998-99, Art for Architecture by Jes Fernie, pages 23-25
Flowers: Errant Bodies 1996/7 ISBN 0-9655-5700-6
de-, dis-, ex-. Volume one, Ex-cravating Modernism 1996 ISBN 1-901033-05-8
Art Monthly no. 197, Nicky Hirst - Imperial War Museum and Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art
RIBA Interios February 1996, Feast of colours, pages 14-19
Konrad Lorenz's Duck catalogue essay by Paola Piccato 1995
Peripheral States catalogue essay by Sarah Kent 1993
Caught Looking catalogue essay by Gregor Muir 1993
Cambridge Architecture Journal 1992, essay by Charlotte Klonk, pages 11-14
Work for, and in collaboration with architects
Stillman Eastwick-Field Partnership
1997-99
Artist on the design team for the rebuild and refurbishment of the existing HIV unit in the Royal Free Hospital, London. Funded by the RSA Art for Architecture Award Scheme
Hawkins Brown Architects
1997
University of Central England, Birmingham
1998
JD Weatherspoon, West Bromich
Associated Architects, Birmingham and Law and Dunbar Nalsmith, Edinburgh
1997
Artist on the design team for the proposed rebuild and refurbishment of the Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham. Funded by the Public Art Development Trust - proposal not realised
Adam Caruso - Caruso St. John
1996
Between Patients, 10 Swan Yard, London