Nicola Hicks was born in London in 1960 and studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. The daughter of two artists, Hicks, grew up producing art. In 1995, Hicks was awarded an MBE for her contribution to the visual arts. Hicks’ sculptures and drawings have been presented in numerous international museums and galleries. Hicks has completed several public commissions, including large-scale sculptures at Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland and in Battersea Park, London. Solo exhibitions include Flowers Gallery, London and New York City; St Paul’s Cathedral, London; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States; and Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, United States, among others. Hicks’ work can be found in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Hakone Open Air Museum in Kanagawa, Japan, and the Castle Museum in Norwich, Contemporary Art Society, Government Art Collection, and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, among many others. In 2023, Hicks was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.