Nicholas Treadwell

Nicholas Treadwell (born 1937 In 1963, he toured England with a double-decker bus and two furniture vans as mobile galleries, as "Nicholas Treadwell's Mobile Art Gallery", based in Croydon.

In 1968, he established the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery at 36 Chiltern Street, in the West End of London, and quickly gained a controversial reputation. The results showed her hand-in-hand with Henry VIII, rowing a boat and drinking from a Union Jack mug. in Womenswold between Canterbury and Dover; restoration took two years but it was opened to the public in July 1980. Denne Hill provided studios for artists and accommodation for visitors; Treadwell ran it alongside the London gallery until 1984. He published a second book on Superhumanism and promoted the movement through exhibitions in the United Kingdom and on the continent.

In 1984, Treadwell left Chiltern Street, The Art Mill provided residency space for 14 artists, as well as a theatre, a cinema and a vegetarian cafe.

In the early 1990s Treadwell discovered a new wave of young talent emerging from British art schools, most notably two graduates working with extraordinarily disturbed figuration. Alun Jury hailed from Cheltenham College of Art. Paul Rosenbloom, his tutor at Cheltenham, phoned Treadwell directly to advise him that he had a student who was perfect for the Treadwell Gallery. He was followed by a precocious and somewhat provocative young British painter Duncan Mosley from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, who Treadwell went on to describe in the book Kiss My Art as "a truly rare talent". In mid-1991 Treadwell attended Art Basel, but declaring that the work on show had no merit, decided instead to open his own show of 'Superhumanism' in an old BMW showroom nearby. The show was very successful.

Old Street, East London: the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery was here in 1996.

By 1996, the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery was at 326 Old Street, London. His own home was described as "littered" with paintings and sculptures, some by an anorexic artist who had died the previous year—one of these showed a small body huddled inside a wardrobe, in the bottom drawer of which the artist had placed her adoption papers.

In January 2000, the Treadwell Gallery moved to Die Station, a set of buildings fronting a river near to the Bohemian Woods in Upper Austria. In the show were "super-realist" sculptures from the 1960s and 70s, many of which were by artists represented by what Searle called "the peculiar Nicholas Treadwell Gallery" and which he "had hoped never to see the first time, let alone again." This was followed by a letter from John Keane, who said that galleries such as Treadwell's, outside an establishment coterie, were inevitably met with "a dismissive sneer" by critics who acted as a herd.

The Marktplatz of Aigen, where the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery moved in 2005In January 2005, Treadwell moved to the courthouse and prison buildings in the Mühlviertel village of Aigen, near the borders with Germany and the Czech Republic. The inaugural exhibition at Treadwell's new gallery is dedicated to art of Hieronymus Bosch and features mostly recent works of 28 international artists.

Work has been bought from Treadwell by John Entwistle, Paul McCartney and Malcolm Forbes.