Nicola Anthony

A highly collected British artist known for metal text sculptures, public sculptures, and burned paper drawings.Anthony was awarded a solo showcase and invited to be the artist-in-residence at the UK Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo in 2021, and was commissioned to make sculptures for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation featuring the story of a Holocaust survivor. She has created public sculptures about border crossings in Ireland, and a sculpture in Colorado to illuminate Elie Wiesel’s words on the importance of speaking out against discrimination.

She has an innate ability to transform words into messages of profundity, her work is a journal of a thousand souls. She collects human testimonies, empowering and transforming them into contemporary art. From the playful to the heart-wrenching, each artwork is shaped by the narrative it contains.

As recently featured in the New York Times, her work with NGOs, art institutions and research bodies has led to art which gives voice to important and often unspoken stories. In recent years she had a solo exhibition at Singapore Art Museum, exhibited at the Kuala Lumpur Biennale, and created public sculptures in the USA, Ireland, England and Singapore. Featured in influential public and...

Central St Martins (UAL)
Loughborough University, School of Art

2023
On The Edge, Espacio Gallery, London

2022
Breaking Borders, Luan Gallery, Westmeath, Ireland (residency and exhibition)
Look Up, EHL Campus, Singapore
Breaking Borders, GOMA, Waterford, Ireland

2021
See Things Differently, (Solo showcase and artist-in-residence) UK Pavillion, Dubai Expo, Dubai, UAE

2020
A Desire For Closeness, Presentation Arts Centre, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
Public Sculpture unveiling, London, UK
Public Sculpture unveiling, Lim Chin Tsong Palace, Myanmar
'Women Sculptors in collections' exhibition, Lightbox Museum, London, UK


2019
Public sculpture unveilng, Aspen Colorado, USA
Sovereign Art Foundation 2019, shortlisted finalist, Hong Kong


2018
Permanent public sculpture, USC Shoah Foundation, Los Angeles
Resonant, Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Sovereign Art Foundation 2018, shortlisted finalist exhibition, Hong Kong
National Design Centre, artist in residence, Singapore
Intersection, Solo artist exhibition, Myanm/ART Gallery, Myanmar
Kuala Lumpur Biennale, National Art Gallery, Malaysia

2017
Human Archive Project, Solo exhibition, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
The flow of time, commissioned sculpture, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Scents of Singapore, group show, Intersections Gall...