David Nash RA

Born: 14 November 1945, Esher, Surrey, UK
Elected RA: May 1999
Category of Membership: Sculptor

David Nash RA, Pyramids Rise, Spheres Turn, and Cubes Stay Still. Charred oak David Nash studied at Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and at Chelsea School of Art (Postgraduate) from 1969 to 1970. Nash’s first solo exhibitions were held in 1973 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, York and at Oriel, Bangor, Wales. These rapidly led to a series of solo exhibitions throughout the UK and his international reputation was established after his first solo shows overseas were held in 1980 at Elise Meyer Gallery, New York and at Galleria Cavallino, Venice, Italy. Since then, he has continued to hold solo shows on an annual basis throughout the world. Nash’s work has also been included in numerous international key group exhibitions since 1970. These include 'The Condition of Sculpture', at the Hayward Gallery, London (1975), 'British Art Now: An American Perspective', at the Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York and tour (1980), 'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part II', at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1981) and 'Aspects of British Art Today', at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in (1982). More recently his work was included in 'Here and Now', at the Serpentine Gallery, London (1995), 'Sculptors’ Drawings 1945-90', at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and 'The Shape of the Century: 100 Years of Sculpture in Britain', at Salisbury Cathedral and Canary Wharf, London (1999). In 2000 his work 'Cube, Sphere, Pyramid' was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for the nation.

David Nash RA, Pyramids Rise, Spheres Turn, and Cubes Stay Still. Charcoal on paper David Nash is represented by Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Galerie LeLong in Paris, Zurich and New York; Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium; Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo and the Haines Gallery, San Francisco. Nash was elected a Royal Academician in 1999, the same year in which he was appointed a Research Fellow, University of Northumbria, Newcastle and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Art & Design by Kingston University. Nash lives and works in North Wales.

Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Château Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Kew Gardens, London
2012 Kew Gardens, London
2011 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
2010 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2009 Abbot Hall, Kendal
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2008 Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Galeria Alvaro Alcazar, Madrid
2007 Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Lewes Town Hall, Sussex
2006 Midlands' National Forest
Galerie im Prediger, Schwabisch Gmund, Germany
2005 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2001 Kunst im Bethmannhof, Frankfurt
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2000-01 Oriel 31, Newtown and tour to Wrexham Art Centre; Burford House Gallery, Ludlow;
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Exhibition on Chicago’s Museum Campus, Chicago
2000 Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff; The Old Market Hall, Blaenau Ffestiniog
Sculpture at Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland
State Bridge Street Gallery, Chicago
1999 Artists’ Gardens, Weimar
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
Gianni Giacobbi Arte Contemporane, Palma de Mallorca
1998 European Foundation for Sculpture, Parc Regional,
Tournay-Solvay, Brussels
Banque de Luxembourg
LA Louver, Los Angeles
Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida
Maneten Gallery, Sweden
Ucheldre Centre, North Wales
Galerie Lelong, New York
1997 LA Louver, Los Angeles
Hans Mayer Galerie, Dusseldorf
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
PYO Gallery, Seoul
1996 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Oriel Y Ddraig, Blaenau Ffestiniog
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Leeds City Art Gallery
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunste, Antwerp
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
1995 Gianni Giacobbi Arte Contemporaneo, Palma de Mallorca
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco
1994 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Nagoya City Art Museum; Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Kobe; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki; Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
1993 Oriel, The Friary, Cardiff
Manchester City Art Gallery
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, Missouri
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
1992 Louver Gallery, New York
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh; Space 34 and The Marland Gallery, Snape Maltings
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (with Leon Tarasewicz)
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Criccieth Festival, North Wales
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
LA Louver, Los Angeles
Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1990 Louver Gallery, New York
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais
Louver Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
Art Affairs, Amsterdam

Public collections
Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Ishiya City Museum of Art and History
Ayr Art Gallery
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais
Museum of Modern Art, Caracas
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Welsh Contemporary Art Society, Cardiff
Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain, Corsica
National Museum, Dublin
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
City of Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Fukuoka City Museum
Grizeldale Forest, Cumbria
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Espoo Karhusaari, Helsinki
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Honolulu Airport, Hawaii
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
Ichikawa Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Iwaki City Museum
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
Abbot Hall Art Gallery & Museum, Kendal, Cumbria
Tickon Environmental Sculpture Park, Langeland, Denmark
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Limousin
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Council, London
Camden Library, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Government Art Collection, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Banque de Luxembourg
Dexia/Banque Internationale, Luxembourg
L’Ecomusée de Pierre-de-Bresse, Macon
Manchester City Council
Heide Art Gallery, Melbourne
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
Nagoya City Museum
Margam Sculpture Park, Newport, Wales
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Nationale Park De Hoge Veluwe, Otterlo
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Tobacco Museum, Prilep
Portsmouth City Museums & Record Services
Kunsthalle Rooklinghaucon
Métrobus de l’Agglomération Rouennaise, Rouen
San Diego Museum of Art, California
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Shimane Art Museum
Southampton City Art Gallery
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis
St Louis Art Museum
Tokyo International Forum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Musée Greuz, Tournus
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ile de Vassiviere
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya

Publications
Forest Poems, Forest Drawings, David Nash with Anthony Barnett, Ferry Press, London, 1982
Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape, John Beardsley, Abbeville Press, New York, 1984
A Sense of Place: Sculpture in Landscape, Peter Davies and Tony Knipe, Ceolfrith Press, Sunderland
Second Nature, Richard Mabey (ed.), Jonathan Cape, London
Wood Primer, David Nash, Bedford Press, San Francisco, 1987
A Quiet Revolution – British Sculpture Since 1965, Graham Beal and Mary Jane Jacob, Thames and Hudson, London
David Nash – Forms into Time, Marina Warner, Academy Editions, London (1996; Second Edition 2001)
The Sculpture of David Nash, Julian Andrews, Lund Humphries, London
TWUMPS, Jahra Blomfield, Seren Press, South Wales, 2001
Black and Light, Dr Judith Collins, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Films and documentaries
Woodman, directed by Peter Francis Browne, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978
Wooden Boulder, made by the artist, Welsh Arts Council, 1982
Sunday Museum Programme, NHK TV Tokyo, 1984
Stoves and Hearths, Alter Image, Channel 4 Television, 1988
David Nash at the Edge of the Forest, directed by Richard Taylor Smith, BBC TV Wales, 1993
From Capel Rhiw to the World, Peter Telfer, HTV, 1996
Y Sioe Gelf, S4C, 2000
Double Yellow, BBC Wales, Mat Springford, 2001

Contact details for further information
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