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. A foreword by Luke Syson,
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, offers insight into
Hornby’s internal and external relationship with sculpture,
considering the links between two and three dimensions, abstraction
and representation, the ‘real’ and the digital. Editor Matt
Price’s introduction takes readers on a whistlestop tour of the
artist’s oeuvre, from his early family life and studies at
Chelsea and The Slade in London, to his latest major exhibitions
and commissions. Price covers a range of significant aspects such
as the importance of music and sound, which were key elements of
Hornby’s early work, to sculptures made in collaboration with
others, and recent pieces combining art history with technology in
their design and fabrication. An essay by Dr Hannah Higham, Senior
Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation,
provides the most substantial piece of critical writing on
Hornby’s work to date, drawing out specific touchstones in the
history of art and discussing the relationship between the work and
time. Higham further explores the ways that the motion and position
of the viewer alter the experience of the sculptures, with new
angles revealing fresh artistic inspirations from Hans Arp or
Elizabeth Frink to ideas from communities Hornby has worked with
and other contemporary artists with whom he has collaborated. An
interview with Dr Helen Pheby, Associate Director, Programme, at
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, probes the artist further about his
cultural and theoretical inspirations, methods, materials and
ideologies, including his views on collaboration, the public nature
of art and its accessibility. Their conversation provides an
insight into the thinking of the artist at a crucial stage in his
career. The monograph brings together works spanning Hornby’s
career for the first time. It follows Hornby’s first
institutional solo exhibition at MOSTYN, Wales, and his first
permanent outdoor sculptural commission for Harlow Science Park in
Essex. The publication is edited by Matt Price, designed by Herman
Lelie, printed by EBS, Verona, and published by Anomie, London.
Nick Hornby, born in 1980, is a British artist living and working
in London. Hornby studied at The Slade School of Art and Chelsea
College of Art where he was awarded the UAL Sculpture Prize. In the
UK he has exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre, Leighton
House (all London), Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, MOSTYN,
Wales, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. International
exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New
York and Poznan Biennale, Poland, along with residencies with
Outset, Israel, and Eyebeam, New York. In 2014 Hornby was made a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
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