Zygotes and Confessions is a publication devoted to the work of London-based artist Nick Hornby, and has been produced to accompany his first solo exhibition in a public gallery. The exhibition, which shares its title with the publication, is presented at MOSTYN, Wales, UK, from November 2020 to April 2021. Hornby is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. United by glossy photographic surfaces created by means of an industrial process in which his marble and resin composite sculptures are dipped into liquid photographs, these new works explore themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era. A number of the works have been made in collaboration with fashion photographer Louie Banks. Nick Hornby (b.1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Hornby studied at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. His work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre London, Leighton House London, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Glyndebourne, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Museum of Arts and Design New York, and Poznan Biennale, Poland. Residencies include Outset (Israel) and Eyebeam (USA), and awards include the UAL Sculpture Prize. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, frieze, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, The FT, and featured in Architectural Digest and Sculpture Magazine. 38 illustrations
Author Biography:
Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London), is an artist working in London, England. He is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. Solo exhibitions include Zygotes and Confessions, MOSTYN, Wales, UK, and Nick Hornby – Sculpture (1504–2017), Glyndebourne, UK. Dr Alfredo Cramerotti is a curator, writer, broadcaster and publisher. He is Director of MOSTYN, Wales, UK. He is also Advisor to the British Council Visual Arts Acquisition Committee, and to the Art Institutions of the 21st Century Foundation. Helen Boyd is Head of Marketing and Publisher Relations at Casemate Group. With an MA from Oxford Brookes University, she began her career as Editorial Assistant at Bloomsbury Publishing before working as Marketing Coordinator for Taylor & Francis and Associate Marketing Manager at Oxford University Press. She has been with Casemate since 2014. Matt Price is a London-based arts publisher, editor and writer. He has published approaching fifty books and catalogues under his Anomie imprints, and edited publications for other publishers including Phaidon, Rizzoli, Thames & Hudson and Hatje Cantz. He has compiled and written two volumes of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting.
