David Nash

Lives in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, United Kingdom (2008)David Nash was born in Escher, Surrey, U.K. and now lives in North Wales. He studied at Kingston College of Art and pursued postgraduate work at the Chelsea School of Art. He has an international reputation as an environmental artist, a mode he is often credited with inventing.(http://www.artnet.com 5-2-08)David Nash Biography 1945 Born Esher, Surrey, England 1963 - 1967 Studied Kingston College of Art 1967 Moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, where he lives and works 1969 - 1970 Postgraduate Study, Chelsea School of Art 1999 Elected Royal Academician 1999 Appointed Research Fellow, University of Northumbria, Newcastle 1999 Awarded Honorary Doctorate in Art & Design, Kingston University 2004 Awarded OBE for services to the arts 1999 - present Member of the British Royal Academy of Fine Arts Selected Exhibitions 2006 David Nash, Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm 2006 Im kleinen Format, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg (group show) 2006 Trunks Thicken, Branches Lengthen, Roots Deepen. Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany; Museum Galerie Fabrik, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2005 For and From, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone (group show) 2005 Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV, Kunstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm (group show) 2005 David Nash – Vessels, Sala de la Diputación de Huesca, Spain 2005 David Nash- Pyramids rise, Spheres turn, and Cubes stand still, Annely Juda Fine Art, London 2005 David Nash: The Language of Wood/Sculpture and Drawings from the Recent Gift of Andrew and Bronya Galef, Fairchild Gallery, Amherst College, USA 2005 David Nash: Sculptures, Projects, Drawings, Galerie Lelong Zürich, Switzerland 2005 Fieldnotes and Sketchbooks, Aberdeen Art Gallery (group show) 2005 Effervescence – La sculpture anglaise dans les institutions francaises 1969-1989, Musée d’Angers (group show) 2005 Pyramids rise, Spheres turn and Cubes stand still, Annely Juda Fine Art, London (group show) 2005 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (group show) 2005 Henry Moore: Epoche und Echo - Englische Bildhauerei im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunsthalle Würth, Künzelsau, Germany (group show) 2004 Making and Placing, Abstract Sculpture 1978 – 2004, Tate St Ives, CornwallTwmps and Eggs, Galerie Lelong Paris 2004 David Nash “Making and Placing Abstract Sculpture 1978–2004”, Tate St Ives, Cornwall 2004 David Nash “Holzskulpturen”, Stiftung für Bildhauerei und Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin 2004 “David Nash”, Galeria Metta, Madrid 2003 David Nash “The Return of Art into Nature”, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg (GER) 2003 David Nash “Holzskulpturen”, Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen (GER) 2003 David Nash : Roche Beech, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court 2002 ‘David Nash: Dark Light,’ Galerie Lelong, New York 2001 ‘David Nash – From Wales’ Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 2001 ‘Burn: Artists Play with Fire', Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, March 29 - June 3, 2001 (group show) 2001 “Blickachsen 3” Skulpturen im Kurpark, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg (GER) 2000 - 2001 ‘Three Forms for Chicago’ Chicago’s Museum Campus, Chicago 2000 'Bronze: Contemporary British Sculpture' Holland Park, London (group show) 1999 “Blickachsen 2” Skulpturen im Kurpark, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg (GER) 1998 ‘Powder’, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (group show) 1998 'David Nash - Language of Wood', Banque de Luxembourg 1996 'Recent Sculpture and Drawing', Galerij S65, Aalst, 1996 'Forms into Time 1971-96' Museum van Hedengaase Kunst, Antwerp 1995 - 1996 'Sculptors' Drawings 1945-90' Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (group show) 1995 'Here and Now' Serpentine Gallery, London (group show) 1995 ‘David Nash: Sculpture from Japan’ Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1994 'Voyages and Vessels' Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Exhibition travelled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Madison Arts Center, Wisconsin 1994 'Otoineppu - Spirit of Three Seasons' Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido Exhibition travelled to: Nagoya City Art Museum; Ashiya City Museum of Art, Kobe; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica 1993 'The Planted Works' Manchester City Art Gallery 1992 'The Artist's Hand' Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (group show) 1990 'The Forces of Nature' Manchester City Art Gallery (group show) 1990 'Chene et Frene' Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais 1985 Bixby Gallery, Washington University, St LouisRijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, OtterloElm, Wattle, Gum, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Melbourne 1984 - 1985 Moriyama City, Shiga, JapanTochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi-kenMiyagi Museum of Art, Sendai Fukuoka Art Museum Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo 1983 Sixty Seasons, Third Eye Centre, GlasgowExhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in EdinburghOriel,Mostyn, Llandudno Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, SwanseaCity Museum Art Gallery, Stoke-on-TrentThe Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin 1973 Briefly Cooked Apples, Quenn Elizabeth Hall, York and Oriel, Bangor, Wales all are solo exhibitions unless noted. Literature 2004 David Nash, Twmps & Eggs, Repères n° 127, Galerie Lelong 1996 Julian Andrews, The sculpture of David Nash - The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries Publishers, London 1996 David Nash, Forms into time - Academy Editions