Nicola Hicks Self Portrait, 2013

This highly detailed charcoal portrait is of British artist Nicola Hicks, best known for her straw and plaster sculptures that explore an anthropomorphic relationship to the animal world through portraits of humanised creatures and beast-like humans.

Nicola Hicks received a BA from the Chelsea School of Artin 1982, followed by an MA in 1985 from the Royal College of Art, London. In 1995 Hicks was awarded an MBE for her contribution to the visual arts. Hicks’ sculpture and drawings have been presented internationally in museums and galleries including a major 2013-14 solo exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. Hicks has numerous works on public display including the Crouching Minotaur at Schoenthal Monastery, Switzerland and Muscle and Blood at 600 Lexington Avenue, New York.  In 2017, alongside her large-scale solo exhibition Wabbling Back to the fire, Elephant published Keep Dark, a monograph with essays by Will Self, Max Porter, Candia McWilliam and David Mamet.