Hertfordshire-born Nicola Anthony is a world-renowned sculptor with artworks commissioned by museums, collections, communities and celebrities globally. 

Her work delves down into the essence of being human - the beauty, the vulnerability, the challenges and the hope. Through deep research with people, places and communities she draws out the everyday experiences of life around her. In her sculptures the mundane moments turn into something profound, as we begin to see the whole universe represented by the microcosm. 

Her artwork has been called “a journal of a thousand souls, with an innate ability to transform words into messages of profundity.” Through collaborations with NGOs, art institutions, communities and research bodies her art gives voice to important and often unspoken stories. She is a trustee at the Royal Society of Sculptors in the UK, and has public artworks in the USA, UK, Ireland, Singapore, and Myanmar.

Nicola has been commissioned to make sculptures for Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation featuring the story of a Holocaust survivor, has created public sculptures about displacement, loneliness, joy and isolation in Ireland, installed a sculpture in Colorado to illuminate the importance of speaking out against discrimination, and was commissioned by Facebook to create an artwork in their APAC headquarters. 

In 2021 Nicola was selected by the UK Government to be the official artist-in-residence at the UK Pavilion in Dubai. It’s there where her latest large sculpture was commissioned as a response to COP26. 

She has been shortlisted for the Sovereign Art Prize, the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the ING Art Prize, won a ‘New Voices of Ireland’ award, and been featured in influential public and private collections around the world. Her artwork is held in the personal collections of Steven Spielberg in the USA and Chris Ingram (of Ingram Collection of British Art) in her home country.