Peter Nicholls Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1936 -

Peter Nicholls (born 1936) is a New Zealand artist who creates large, outdoor works. His public art sculptures, often combining steel and native timbers, comment on the New Zealand landscape and its colonial history. Nicholls was born in Whanganui, New Zealand in 1936. He was educated at the Canterbury University School of Fine Arts in Christchurch, the Auckland Teachers' College, and the University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts. In the 1960s he spent some time as an Auckland high school art teacher. In 1978–79 Nicholls completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and in 1979 he became a Lecturer in Sculpture at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand, a position he held until 2001.

Nicholls was married to the artist Di Ffrench for more than thirty years, until her death in 1999. He now lives and works in Dunedin, New Zealand. The Dunedin Public Art Gallery presented Journeywork, a major retrospective of Nicholls's career, in 2008.