I was asked by Matthew Flowers to call in on Nicola Hicks’s latest exhibition Keep Dark.   I’ve admired her work ever since she was commissioned (by Derry Irvine) to do a portrait bust of Tony Blair (I’ve always assumed, without evidence, that it was scuppered by Alastair Campbell).   She’s good at modelling.   Upstairs is a display case with two portrait busts:  Epicurius:-

And Family Portrait:-

The rest is much darker – a room full of her animal sculptures emerging out of straw:-

I preferred the work upstairs which is less portentous:-