Peter Nicholas

Born at Tredegar, Monmouthshire in 1934, Peter Nicholas was educated at Ebbw Vale County Grammar School. From 1951-56 he studied sculpture at Cardiff College of Art and then from 1958-61 at the Royal College of Art, London.

He returned to live in Wales in 1962 and was appointed Lecturer in Sculpture & Drawing Studies at Newport Art School in Gwent in 1963, followed by an appointment to Head of Foundation Studies at Newport until 1980 and then Head of the Swansea School Faculty of Art until 1988.

A Founder Member of the Welsh Sculpture Trust and a Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and also a Member of the Watercolour Society of Wales in 1996. He is the Sculptor Director of Sculpture at Margam and an Associate Lecturer at the University College of Wales, Swansea

Exhibitions:

Woodlands Gallery, London
Art Fairs in London, Chicago and New York
Bath Festival, Bath
Brighton Festival, Brighton
Chelsea Harbour Sculpture, London
Riverside Gallery, London
“Sculptors Drawings”, The Sladmore Gallery, London
Pangolin Gallery, Gloucestershire
Wales Art Fair, Cardiff
Wales Art Fair, Cardiff
The Albany Gallery, Cardiff
The Victoria Gallery, Cwmbran
The Watercolour Society of Wales, Cardiff
Chichester Festival, Sussex
Wales Drawing Biennale, Aberystwyth
Compton Cassey Gallery, Gloucestershire
Festival Park Sculpture, Ebbw Vale
The Watercolour Society of Wales, Cardiff
Chelsea Art Fair, London

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