Nigel Ellis

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2013/14 

Martello St, London

2012

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

2011
Art At The Edge, The Bristol Gallery, Bristol
2010
Critics Choice, Browse and Darby, London
Critics Choice, Wills Lane Gallery, St Ives
Dudmaston Estate, Bridgnorth, Shropshire
2009
h.art, The Drawing Gallery, Herefordshire
The Engine Shed, Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale

2008
Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
Space Now, London
Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford
Schmatte Couture, Rivington Gallery, London

2007
London Art Fair, Chelsea

2006 
The Drawing Gallery, London (dual)
Vivian Young Gallery, Norfolk (solo)
BBH London (solo)

2005 
William Hanham, London

2004
Cass Sculpture Foundation, London
Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucs

2003
ecArt ‘Dialogue’, London EC1 (dual)
Chelsea Physic Garden

2001 
Sculpture At Goodwood
Art 2001, BDC Islington
Your Worlds And Mine, E1 Gallery (solo)

2000
Nordbrabants Museum, Holland
Art 2000, BDC Islington
Ten Fourteen, Central St Martins School of Art
Downe House, The Home of Charles Darwin, Kent

1999 
Sculpture At Goodwood
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Home House, Portman Square

1998
Whitechapel Art Gallery Open, The Tannery and Canary Wharf
A Labour of Love, Pallant House, Chichester
20th Century Sculpture, Millfield School, Somerset
The Crucible, London Art House

1997 
Recent Drawings, Akel Minott Elia, Clerkenwell (solo)
Sculpture Survey, Wolseley Fine Arts
Sculpture In The Garden, Deans Court, Wimborne, Dorset

1996
Natural Selection, Wysing Arts Cambridge
Apes And Angels, Art Now, Camberwell

1995 
Economist Building and Plaza (solo)
Raw Gallery (solo)
Coopers Lybrand Atrium Gallery, (dual)
Unilever Recent Acquisitions
Sculpture In The Garden, Wimborne Dorset
Art 95 BDC Islington
Hammerson PLC, 100 Park Lane

1994 
Corr Gallery, London
Art 94 BDC Islington
Ghosts In The Landscape, Zenith Gallery
The House of William Blake

1993 
Sculpture In The East End, Lamont Gallery
West Soho Gallery

1991
Olympia Art Fair

1989 
Wood Fired Clay Sculptures, Art Now Camberwell (solo)

1987 
New Work, Art Now Camberwell (solo)

1986 
Spacexe Gallery, Exeter

1985
University of Exeter

1984 
Christies Inaugural

1982 
University Of Kent At Canterbury (solo)
New Contemporaries, London, ICA

 

RECENT COMMISSIONS AND MAJOR COLLECTIONS

2010
Ben Uri Museum

2008
Victoria and Albert Museum

2005
Erith, Michael Sparks Associates

2004 
Bromley By Bow, Michael Sparks Associates

2003  
Ironbridge Open Air Museum
University of Notre Dame
Pride Of The Valley Sculpture Park

2002  
Optima Park, Crayford

2001  
Universal Music, Hammersmith

2000 
Premier Park Royal Madejski Hotel, Reading

1999  
Aremia Collection, Holland

1998 
Sculpture At Goodwood

1996  
British Standards Institution
Unilever
Charles Barker PLC
John Patsalides Associates
and private collections in Britain, The United States, France and Holland

TRAINING

1983-84  Chelsea School of Art
1979-82  Canterbury College of Art
1978-79  St Albans College of Art & Design

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2011 – 12
Film: ‘The Inside Outer – Nigel Ellis’, Tyfish Films

2010
A Critic’s Choice, Browse and Darby catalogue

2008 
Iron Working Drawings, 5 UK/5 USA Sculptors Ironbridge Museum

2006
Catalogue to Vivian Young Gallery show, including conversation with Andrew Lambirth

2001  
A Vision for British Sculpture, Sculpture At Goodwood

2000
Catalogue to E1 Gallery solo show by Ann Elliott, essay ‘Your Worlds And Mine’

1999 
The Independent, ‘On Goodwood Form’, Fiona Macleod

1997 
British Contemporary Sculpture, Sculpture At Goodwood

1998 
British Contemporary Sculpture, Drawings & Maquettes, Sculpture At Goodwood

1998
Portfolio Magazine No 6, article by Candy Kemp

1998 
The Independent Magazine, Top Dealers Recommend It’ John Windsor

1999 
Braziers International Artists Workshop Catalogue

AWARDS AND OTHER EXPERIENCE

2004 Winner, The Artist and the Radio, Radio 4 and Bankside Gallery

2002/3/5  Ironbridge Open Air Museum Of Sculpture Workshops in cast iron

2000   Artists Access To Art Colleges Scheme – Central St Martins

2001   Cath Avila Travel Award (New York)

1998   Braziers International Workshop, Braziers College, Oxon

1991-97  Curator/Joint Artistic Director The Florence Trust Studios

1995
Elephant Trust Award
Europa Nebenen, Bayerisches Fernsehen, filmed interview

1994
Eirlys Tynan Travel Award (Italy)
Wales Television, Filmed Interview
Creativity And Exploration, Contrast Films, interview

1984-85 Fellow in Sculpture, Exeter School of Art & Design



Mindfulness of Breathing maquette and part of the charcoal drawing triptych at Pallant House Gallery, 'Labour of Love', 1998

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