Nichola THEAKSTON

For more than ten years, Nichola Theakston has been internationally recognized as one of the very first contemporary sculptors to explore the animal theme. By the postural veracity that she captures, as much as by the tiny delicacy of her portraiture, her work is placed on this sculptural altiplano where she inspires, in addition to all the panoply of usual admiring feelings, a recognition of a real cultural anchoring, both relevant and convincing. It is this extreme quality that drives collectors around the world, and which is so perfectly illustrated in his shocking portraits of primates where the primitiveness of man is so cruelly highlighted by the humanity of the beast.