Nic Fiddian-Green

Nic Fiddian-Green was born in Hampshire, England, in 1963. He took a one-year foundation course at Chelsea College of Art in 1982, where he first encountered the Selene horse from the Parthenon frieze in the British Museum, a work that has remained a touchstone of proportion and harmony throughout his career. He went on to study sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art from 1983 to 1986, earning an honours degree, and afterward completed a course in lost-wax bronze casting at Central Saint Martins, though the exact year of that study is not documented in available sources.

He has been represented by Sladmore Gallery in London for more than 25 years, with the gallery hosting both solo shows, including The Face of Christ in 2025, and group exhibitions of his work since at least 1997. His practice centers on the horse's head as subject, worked at scale in bronze and beaten lead, alongside smaller sculptures and drawings. His most recognized public work, Still Water, is permanently sited at Marble Arch in London; other permanent installations of his sculpture stand at Royal Ascot, Goodwood, and Glyndebourne Opera House. His lead sculpture Christ Rests in Peace, depicting the head of Christ, is installed at Southwark Cathedral. In the United States, a cast of Still Water was purchased with donated funds by the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia, in 2013, and the museum mounted a retrospective survey of his work, Spiritus Equus, in 2026. In an interview with Premier Christianity, Fiddian-Green discussed his recovery from alcoholism and how that experience shaped later works exploring the face of Christ. He lives and works near Bramley, Surrey.

Formal art-world prizes are not part of the documented record for Fiddian-Green; his recognition has come chiefly through prominent public siting and institutional endorsement. On the occasion of the National Sporting Library & Museum's 2012 presentation of Still Water, Nicole S. Pollack Farrell, then the museum's deputy director, described the sculpture as combining a modern sensibility with the artist's deep grounding in classical Greek proportion and harmony. Dealers writing about Still Water at Marble Arch have similarly framed the work as a landmark of contemporary public sculpture in London. The recurring theme in commentary on his work is his sustained study of classical form, particularly the Parthenon's Selene horse, translated into a scale and material language suited to major public sites.

Fiddian-Green's clearest documented auction result is Silence, a lead equine sculpture that sold for GBP 50,600 at Dreweatts in Newbury on 11 March 2026, the highest publicly documented auction price identified for the artist in available records. Public auction activity below that level is thin and unevenly documented: Bonhams sold Into the Wind, a bronze equine sculpture, for GBP 20,480 including premium, though the exact sale date is not clearly published in available auction records. Much of his documented value sits outside the auction room, in gallery sales through Sladmore and in public and institutional commissions, including the National Sporting Library & Museum's 2013 purchase of a Still Water cast for its permanent collection.

Fiddian-Green's public auction record is limited to a small number of results, anchored by the GBP 50,600 sale of Silence at Dreweatts in 2026, with other recorded sales considerably lower and less frequent, such as the GBP 20,480 Bonhams result for Into the Wind. There is no catalogue raisonne, so provenance and authenticity for any work should be confirmed through Sladmore Gallery, his gallery of record for more than two decades. Because so much of his output moves through commissions and private or gallery sales rather than the auction room, any single auction result should be read with caution rather than treated as a reliable index of broader market value.