Nicholas Sinclair (born 1954) is a British portrait
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'', 3 May 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2017From Peter Blake to Paula Rego: a who's who of British artists in their studios – in pictures
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'', 28 April 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2017 and landscape photographer. His work has been published in a number of books of his own, exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and is held in the permanent collections there and in the

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, London. In 2003 he was made a Hasselblad Master.

Life and work

Sinclair was born in London. He studied fine art at

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. His career as a photographer began in 1982 with a series of photographs taken in the circus which were first exhibited in 1983 at the

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and subsequently published in the ''

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''. He is known principally as a portrait photographer, his subjects include

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, John Piper and

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. He has edited two books about the Welsh artist

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and made portraits of him. Sinclair also makes landscape photographs—he has made two books on European cities and one on a lake.

Publications

Publications by Sinclair

*''The Chameleon Body.'' London: Lund Humphries, 1996. . With essays by

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and Anthony Shelton. *''Franko B.'' London:

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, 1998. . With essays by Stuart Morgan and Lois Keidan. *''Portraits of Artists.'' London: Lund Humphries, 2000. . With an essay by Ian Jeffrey, and a conversation between Sinclair and Robin Dance. *''Crossing the Water.'' Brighton:

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, 2002. . With an essay by David Alan Mellor and an afterword by

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. *''Berlin: Imagining the Tri Chord.'' London:

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, 2007. . With an essay by David Chandler. *''Five Cities.'' London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2010. . With an essay by Nicky Hamlyn.

Publications edited by Sinclair

*''John Holloway Downlandscapes.'' Self-published, 2004. . *''Kyffin Williams.'' London: Lund Humphries, 2004. . *''The Art of Kyffin Williams.'' London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007. .

Awards

*2003:

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*1983: Gardner Arts Centre,

, Brighton *2014:

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, Chichester

Other exhibitions

His work has been exhibited eight times at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Collections

Sinclair's work is held in the following permanent collections: * National Portrait Gallery, LondonNicholas Sinclair (1954–), Photographer
.

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. Retrieved 11 May 2017 * Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Venice, Italy. *

, LondonPhotographs of Paul Scofield and Joy Parker by Nicholas Sinclair
.

. Retrieved 11 May 2017

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinclair, Nicholas 1954 births Living people Alumni of Newcastle University Photographers from London British portrait photographers