Nicholas Sinclair

For other people named Nicholas Sinclair, see Nicholas Sinclair (disambiguation).

Nicholas Sinclair
Sinclair in black-and-white
Born	1954 (1954) London, Britain
Occupation(s)	Portrait photographer and landscape photographer

Nicholas Sinclair (born 1954) is a British portrait ^{[1] [2]} and landscape photographer. His work has been published in a number of books of his own, exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery in London. ^[3] The art is held in the permanent collections there ^[3] and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, ^[4] London. In 2003, he was made a Hasselblad Master. ^[3]

Life and work

Sinclair was born in London. He studied fine art at Newcastle University.

His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus ^[1] which were first exhibited in 1983 at the University of Sussex and subsequently published in the British Journal of Photography .^{[ citation needed ]}

He is known principally as a portrait photographer, his subjects include Anthony Caro, Frank Auerbach, John Piper and Paula Rego. ^{[1] [2]} He has edited two books about the Welsh artist Kyffin Williams and made portraits of him. ^[1]

Sinclair also makes landscape photographs. He has made two books, one on European cities and the other on a lake.

Sinclair now lives between the cities of Brighton, England, and Berlin, Germany. ^[5]

Publications

Publications by Sinclair

• The Chameleon Body. London: Lund Humphries, 1996. ISBN   0-85331-6961. With essays by David Alan Mellor and Anthony Shelton.
• Franko B. London: Black Dog, 1998. ISBN   1-901033-55-4. With essays by Stuart Morgan and Lois Keidan.
• Portraits of Artists. London: Lund Humphries, 2000. ISBN   0-85331-799-2. With an essay by Ian Jeffrey, and a conversation between Sinclair and Robin Dance.
• Crossing the Water. Brighton: Photoworks, 2002. ISBN   1-903796-02-4. With an essay by David Alan Mellor and an afterword by Ian Jeffrey.
• Berlin: Imagining the Tri Chord. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. ISBN   978-1-905711-10-9. With an essay by David Chandler.
• Five Cities. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2010. ISBN   978-1-905711-57-4. With an essay by Nicky Hamlyn.

Publications edited by Sinclair

• John Holloway Downlandscapes. Self-published, 2004. ISBN   09522338-1-9.
• Kyffin Williams. London: Lund Humphries, 2004. ISBN   1-85437-511-3.
• The Art of Kyffin Williams. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. ISBN   978-1-905711-00-0.

Awards

In 2003, he won the Hasselblad Masters Award. ^[3]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1983: Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2014: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester ^{[1] [2]}

Other exhibitions

His work has been exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery, London. ^[3]

Collections

Sinclair's work is held in these permanent collections:

• National Portrait Gallery, London ^[3]
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy. ^[1]
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London ^[4]

References

1. "Best of British: Nicholas Sinclair artist portraits". Emma Robertson, The Daily Telegraph , 3 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2017
2. "From Peter Blake to Paula Rego: a who's who of British artists in their studios – in pictures". The Guardian , 28 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2017
3. "Nicholas Sinclair (1954–), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 11 May 2017
4. "Photographs of Paul Scofield and Joy Parker by Nicholas Sinclair". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 11 May 2017
5. "Nicholas Sinclair: Artist Portraits". Pallant House Gallery. Retrieved 26 February 2024.

External links

• Official website