Publications and Press
2019
U.K. Election Artist Nicky Hirst: Reflects on 'Fractured and Febrile' Campaign by Sam Gaskin, published in Ocula on 13 December 2019 https://ocula.com/magazine/art-news/official-uk-election-artist-nicky-hirst-refle/
2019 How was it for you? #2: Nicky Hirst, official artist for the 2019 general election, a-n The Artists Information Company online https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/2019-how-was-it-for-you-2-nicky-hirst-official-artist-for-the-2019-general-election/
ALGORITHMS solo exhibition at Exeter Phoenix, review by Martin Holman in Art Monthly issue no 429, September 2019
2018
Artists + Instagram: Nicky Hirst, Seeking Serendipity by Richard Taylor, a-n The Artists Information Company online
The Word Is Art by Michael Petry published by Thames and Hudson ISBN-10: 0500239665
2017
Occasional Geometries, The Art Newspaper 'In the Frame', July 2017
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/art-diary/occasional-geometries-yorkshire-sculpture-park/
https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/merz-barn-exhibition-humble-hell-artworks-kurt-schwitters-final-work-space/
London Round-Up, Art Monthly by Kathryn Lloyd, June 2017
Nicky Hirst Real Size, review in Studio International by Veronica Simpson May 2017
it is something, it is nothing, published by Another Place Press, Edition of 150
2014
Significant Ordinary Objects compiled by Nicky Hirst, Kingfisher Court Mental Healthcare Facility, Edition of 1000
2009
Wild Blue Yonder by Jeni Walwin pdf: http://www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/wild-blue-yonder-a-project-by-nicky-hirst.pdf
2008
Morphology: Doug Burton and Nicky Hirst ISBN: 978-0-9557699-2-4
2003
Infallible: In Search of the Real George Eliot ISBN: 1-873352-83-2
2000
The Saatchi Gift to the Arts Council Collection ISBN: 1-85332-207-5
1999
Day for Night, Museum of Installation ISBN: 1-903209-00-5
Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade ISBN: 1-861540-33-7
Public Art Journal, March 1999, Art for Architecture by Jonathan Darke
Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden ISBN: 88-86429-35-5
RSA Journal 4/4 Art for Architecture by Jes Fernie, pages 23-25
Toys, Errant Bodies, publisher Small Press Magazine, ISBN 0-9655-5700-6
Standing in the Shadows, Waiting in the Wings' by Francis Mckee
1998
Artist-in-Research 1996-1998, exploring the notion of research in relation to contemporary visual arts practice. Participating artists include: Clare Charnley, Monika Dutta, Edwina fitzPatrick, Nicky Hirst, Indika Perera and Louise K. Wilson, INIVA publication ISBN: 1-899846-24-7
1997
Flowers: Errant Bodies ISBN: 0-9655-5700-6
1996
de-, dis-, ex-. volume 1, ex-cavating modernism ISBN: 1-901033-05-8
Imperial War Museum and Anthony Wilkinson Fine Art Review by Sotiris Kyriacou, Art Monthly no.197
RIBA Interiors, February 1996, Feast of Colours, pages 14-19
1995
Konrad Lorenz's Duck catalogue essay by Paola Piccato
1993
Peripheral States: Tacita Dean, Emma Rushton, Nicky Hirst and Suzanne Walker, catalogue essay by Sarah Kent
Caught Looking publication with an essay by Gregor Muir
Shaping Up, Time Out review by Tania Guha
1992
Towards an Aesthetic of Nature in Contemporary Art, Nicky Hirst and Rebecca Salter, Cambridge Architecture Journal 1992, essay by Charlotte Klonk, pages 11-14
1991
Time Out review by David Lillington, Adam Gallery, London