Nicola Hicks’s sculptures, at the Yale Center for British Art, don’t try to outwit us with ironies. Her work is trusting, ingenuous. It speaks directly, and every phrase is fired with passion.

Nicola Hicks is a contemporary English artist known for her loosely rendered sculptures of animals, humans, and mythical creatures. Crafted from straw and plaster and often cast in bronze, Hicks ...

Pause, by Nicola Hicks, runs at Flowers Gallery, 21 Cork Street London W1S 3LZ until 5 December. All images are the copyright of Nicola Hicks and used with the permission of the gallery and artist ...

Image copyright Nicola Hicks, courtesy Flowers Gallery. Nicola Hicks: Wabbling Back to the Fire at Flowers East, 82 Kingsland Road, E2 8DP. Until 11 November, free entry.

Currently at the Yale Center for British Art, the animal and human creations of British sculptor Nicola Hicks exist in an oxymoronic space. The exhibit’s program describes her life-sized creatures as ...

Hicks’ exhibit, the only show at the Center opening this fall, will also be the only one this year that celebrates the work of a living artist. One sculpture greets visitors in the Center’s main court ...