Sculptor, mixed-media artist and teacher, born in Mufulira, Zambia, who did foundation studies in art and design at Yeovil College, Somerset, 1997; attended the Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999; and gained first-class honours in fine art, sculpture and environmental art from Glasgow School of Art, 2000. Significant teachers were Derek Boshier, David Harding, Ross Sinclair, Christine Borland and Claire Barclay. Evans settled in Glasgow and there won a School of Art Travel Scholarship in 2000 and Scottish Arts Council individual artist’s assistance grants in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. He had a South West Arts Regional Arts Lottery Programme residency at The Town Mill, Lyme Regis, 2001, other residencies including Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, 2002, and Cove Park, Helensburgh, 2003.
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Evans was a visiting lecturer, master of fine art department at Glasgow School of Art in 2003, and in 2004–5 at the School’s painting and historical and critical studies departments. He was a committee member of Transmission Gallery in Glasgow, 2002–4, and from 2005 one of the board of directors of Glasgow Sculpture Studios. As well as taking part in group exhibitions, Evans was a regular solo and shared show exhibitor, later ones including Lumumba is Dead, Transmission Gallery, and Remember Old Pineapple Face, Glasgow Project Room, both 2002; Red Bus Go (with Laurence Figgis), 273 High Street, Glasgow, 2004; and Nick Evans/Tobias Buche, Mary Mary, Glasgow, 2005. In 2006–7 Evans would be the fourth Tate St Ives artist-in-residence and exhibited there. In his work he employed a range of media, from resin to hand-built ceramic sections, according to the Tate: “his eclectic practice probing the history of sculpture while decoding contemporary social, political and cultural representations.”
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
