SCULPT | Nicola Anthony
Nicola Anthony (b.1984), a British Anglo-Indian sculptor based in the UK, has created public artworks around the world from Los Angeles to Singapore. She was appointed as artist-in-residence for the UK Government in Dubai (2021-2022), and has shown work in museums internationally. One of her most noteworthy permanent sculptures was commissioned for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation, featuring the story of a Holocaust survivor (2018, Los Angeles).
The artist is known for her signature metal text sculptures which tell powerful stories, connecting with history, people and places. (As featured in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Blouin Artinfo, BBC, among others). She gathers words, narratives and patterns in a variety of methods including collecting anonymous stories and confessions, inviting letters, sourcing big data from the depths of the web, and scouring traditional texts to find previously unknown subtexts. Anthony says “I aim to give voice to important and often unspoken stories, revealing our inner worlds, exploring the tangled threads of history, roots, identity and universality which connect us all.”
Her artworld accolades include being shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize in 2020 for her artwork in Singapore, as well as the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2021 for her work on the subject of the migrant crisis. In 2019, whilst based in Dublin, she received a ‘New Voices Of Ireland’ award. Anthony has recently had 3 works acquired by Ingram Collection of British Art and has been spotlighted by SmArtify as one of 50 noteworthy female artists. Notable exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Singapore Art Museum (2017), and exhibited works at the Kuala Lumpur Biennale (2018).
Anthony is also a diversity champion, a trustee, poet and paper aeroplane collector. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and an alumni of Central St Martin’s (University of the Arts London) and Loughborough University.