Nigel Ellis

Nigel Ellis was born in Old Stevenage in 1960, and studied at St Alban's College of Art (1978-79), Canterbury College of Art (1979-82) and Chelsea School of Art (1983-1984). He now lives and works in Shoreditch, in East London.

A series of events led to a decisive moment in Nigel Ellis's future career as a sculptor. In 1976 he saw the complete sculptures of Degas at the Lefevre Gallery, and he embarked on a course in 3D design. The idea of looking at an everyday object, in his case a water tap, as if it were ...