Nick Moran

From an early age I was making things in grandfather’s shed at the end of his garden, I sometimes made objects that really didn’t do anything; I just liked the way different shapes connected.
As I grew up, I couldn’t see being sculptor a viable career option. I knew that was who I was, but I didn’t know how to be it.
Visiting different countries and experiencing other cultures had always been something I wanted to do, so when I left school I travelled around Europe then the US, Canada, New Zealand, and India. I worked along the way fruit picking, landscaping and general laboring. In Australia, I got a job at a steel works factory. The highly skilled, self-assured character of the men who worked there and the strong sense of camaraderie really appealed to me. I loved the heat and the clatter of the place. This was the first time I learnt how to form steel, I took this experience back to the UK and went to an art school that specialised in blacksmithing. This was followed by an apprenticeship, and then I opened my own forge in London, which gave me the time to develop my art practice alongside the commissioned work I was producing for clients at the time.
Travel remains an important source for my work, and if I can’t get away, th...

2017 Arundel Contemporary Group Show, Arundel UK
2017 Sculpture exhibition Marks Hall, Essex UK
2016 Sculpture Exhibition, Doddington Hall, Lincoln UK
2015 Lacey Contemporary London
2015 Fresh Air Quenington
2015 Affordable Art Fair Battersea
2014 Lacey Contemporary 'Dedication to form'
2014 Affordable Art Fair Battersea
2013 Danniel Besheiche Paris
2013 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
2013 Woburn Abbey
2013 Leicester University International Sculpture Exhibition, Harold Hillier Botanical Gardens.
2012 Gallery One Greyshott Surrey
2011 Galleri Pelar Lelant