Richard NOTT
Richard Nott obtained a BA in Fine Art at Lancashire Polytechnic, followed by an MA in Fine Art at the University of Reading. He then worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. In 1994 he won the South West Arts Visual Arts & Photography Award, and this was followed by a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia.
He worked for many years from Porthmeor Studios and subsequently from his own studio complex at The Forge in Hayle. Towards the end of his life he worked from Bay House, overlooking St Michael's Mount.
His many solo shows included a long period being represented by Anima Mundi in St Ives. He also exhibited at Chashama on Avenue of the Americas in New York City.
He is widely regarded as one of Cornwall's most influential and ambitious contemporary artists, creating a singular body of work which continually pushed the parameters of painting.
After a long illness, during which he continued to make art, Richard Nott died in 2025.
media
Sculptural constructions, painting, photography
works and access
Works incl: Striation (A) 2005
exhibitions
2007: Art Now Cornwall Exhibition, Tate St Ives 3 Feb-13 May
2013: Millennium Gallery, St Ives: Mixed Winter Exhibition Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2014
2017: 'Ecdysis', Anima-Mundi, St Ives (15 Apr-21 May)
2019: Protected by Alarms - at the Old Vicarage Flats, St Ives, Anima Mundi (25 Oct-16 Nov)
2020: 'Bone Skin Spirit', Anima-Mundi, St Ives (12 Dec-30 Jan)
references
Cornwall Today (Sept. 2014) 'The Alchemist' by Alex Wade
Open Studios Cornwall (2011)
Tate St Ives, Art Now Cornwall Artist Guide (on-line) 2007 with illus:
Whybrow (2013) St Ives: The Story of Porthmeor Studios;