Nick Hornby (artist)

He is known for his monumental site-specific works, that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble.

"Power over others is Weakness disguised as Strength" was commissioned by Northacre and stands in the centre of Orchard Place, Westminster, London.

As they walk around the work, this image dissolves into an abstract shape before morphing into a curling line inspired by a squiggle printed in the eighteen-century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1959.

It is the 100th piece in Harlow's public sculpture collection[6] which includes works by Auguste Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, and Elizabeth Frink, among many others, so is a fitting environment for an artist whose subject is frequently the canon and its construction.

For this commission, Hornby has crossed one of the most canonic of figurative sculptures, Michelangelo's David, with a curving line from a 1925 Kandinsky drawing.

Synthetic Marble sculpture by Nick Hornby in Andaz 5th Avenue, 485 5th Avenue at 41st Street, New York, USA
Bird God Drone, 2013, DUMBO, New York, USA.
Power over others is Weakness disguised as Strength, Nick Hornby, 2023, Orchard Place, Westminster, London, UK
"Twofold," 2019, Harlow, UK
"Muse Offcut #1," 2017, Glyndebourne , UK