Nicholas Pope (artist)

[1] In 1974 he was granted a Romanian Government Exchange Scholarship and in 1976 the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Award.

[2] Pope's work from the 1970s has a powerful abstract quality that is softened by his use of natural materials, chalk and wood.

In 1980 Pope represented Britain at the XXXIX Venice Biennale, and in 1981 he traveled to Zimbabwe as a British Council Cultural Visitor.

It was undiagnosed for several years and his work was impaired due to a degree of permanent brain damage being inflicted.

This title features sculptures and drawings by Pope from the 1970s to present, along with texts by Tate Britain Director Penelope Curtis, Christopher Townsend and Andrew Sabin.