Nick Hornby

A major monograph on London-born and based sculptor Nick Hornby. Featuring a foreword by Luke Syson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; an essay by Dr Hannah Higham, Senior Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation; and an interview by Dr Helen Pheby, Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and contemporary technology. Hornby’s practice uses software that allows him to extract, alter and hybridise sculptures from art history into new works made from marble, steel, bronze, resin, wood and composite materials. It could be said that Hornby has opened up a new sculptural language for the twenty-first century. This, his first major monograph, features approximately 175 images, many of which are reproduced here for the first time or have been commissioned for the publication. Alongside documentation of works presented in galleries and outdoor spaces are production images taken in the studio and fabrication workshops. Hornby’s practice is here divided into four categories: Intersections, Extrusions, Hydrographics and Collaborations. 175 illustrations

Author Biography

Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London), is an artist working in London, England. He is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. Solo exhibitions include Zygotes and Confessions, MOSTYN, Wales, UK, and Nick Hornby – Sculpture (1504–2017), Glyndebourne, UK. Hannah Higham is Senior Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation. She holds an MA from the Courtauld Institute, London, and a PhD from the University of Birmingham. Her academic interests encompass not only modern and contemporary sculpture but also that of sixteenth-century Florence. Dr Helen Pheby is Associate Director, Programme, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Offsite projects include A Place in Time (2016) at NIROX Sculpture Park in the UNESCO Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, and the Kyiv Sculpture Project (2012). She is co-investigator on an AHRC funded project at the University of York, Centre for Applied Human Rights. Luke Syson is Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. From 2012–19 he oversaw the USA’s largest collection of European applied arts and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Formerly the Curator of Italian Painting before 1500 and Head of Research at the National Gallery, London, he began his career at the British Museum and the V&A. Matt Price is a London-based arts publisher, editor and writer. He has published approaching fifty books and catalogues under his Anomie imprints, and edited publications for other publishers including Phaidon, Rizzoli, Thames & Hudson and Hatje Cantz. He has compiled and written two volumes of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting.