Simon Nicholson 1934 - 1990

Simon Nicholson was born in 1934 in London, one of triplets from the marriage of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. He moved to Carbis Bay, Cornwall in 1939 and studied at the Royal College of Art between 1953-57. In 1964 he became Visiting Professor in Sculpture, Moore University, Philadelphia, and was appointed professor of Sculpture at the University of California between 1965-71. He devised and managed an innovative arts course for the Open University in 1971, entitled Art and the Environment and his work was included in St Ives: Twenty-five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Ceramics at the Tate in 1985. Simon Nicholson died in Oxford in 1990.

works in the collection - 2

PAC/089

This drawing was made while Nicholson was studying prehistoric sites on the islands. He studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1953-54) before undertaking an Archaeology and Anthropology course at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Isle of Scilly, circa 1956


PAC/090

Acres St Martins, Isles of Scilly, 1956