Nicola Hicks

Nicola Hicks was born in London in 1960 into a family of well-established artists. She studied at Chelsea School of Art (1978-82 ) and at the Royal College of Art (1982-85).

She took part in Christie's Inaugural Graduate Exhibition in 1982, but was able to project her precocious talent with astounding effect when Elisabeth Frink chose her, aged twenty-four, for the annual Artist for the Day exhibition at the Angela Flowers Gallery in 1984.

At a time when London was enjoying fame as the capital of punk culture and the art world was focused on abstract ...