Nigel Hall RA

Born: 30 August 1943
Elected RA: 17 March 2003
Category of Membership: Sculptor

My work has always been about place. I am fascinated by the way geometry can be discerned in landscape, and my preferred landscapes are mountains or the desert.
Nigel Hall RA

Nigel Hall RA, Drawing No. 1062 Nigel Hall studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol from 1960 to 1964 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. A Harkness Fellowship took him to the United States from 1967 to 1969.

Hall has had many exhibitions around the world and has been widely collected. His first tubular aluminium sculpture was made in 1970. In subsequent years he explored the ways in which tubular construction alters the viewer’s perception of space. This interest in the qualities of spatial construction was balanced by an equally strong pre-occupation with the particular sites his sculptures occupy. His recent work has been less minimal in feel, tending towards stronger, more solid forms.

Read an interview with Nigel Hall in RA Magazine Spring 2008

Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Churchill College, Cambridge
2012 Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School, London
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich
2011 Royal Academy of Arts, London
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2010 City Arts Centre, Oklahoma, USA
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homberg, Germany
2009 Galeria Pelaires, Palma, Mallorca
2008 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
2007 Galerie Christian Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2006 Galerie Lutz and Thalmann, Zurich
2005 Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2004 Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Galleri C. Hjärne, Helsingborg, Sweden
2003 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2002 Art Space Gallery, London
2001 Sculpture at Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland
2000 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Galleri C. Hjärne, Helsingborg, Sweden
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1999 Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998 New York Studio School Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Economist Plaza, London
Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belguim
1996 Shell Technology and Research Centre, Amsterdam
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1995 Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belguim
Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland

Public collections
Tate Gallery, London
Musee National D’Art Moderne, Paris
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Art Institute of Chicago
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels, Belguim
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas, USA
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA

Public commissions
2003 Bank of America, London
1998 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
1993 Thameslink Road Tunnel, London
1988 Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea
1985 Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
1982 Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Publications
Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1978
Nigel Hall: Early Work with Sculpture and Drawings 1965–1980, exh. cat., Warwick Gallery, London, 1980
Nigel Hall, exh. cat., Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1981
Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Juda Rowan Gallery, London, 1981
Nigel Hall: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1982
Nigel Hall: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Juda Rowan Gallery, London, 1985
Nigel Hall: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1987
Nigel Hall: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1991
Nigel Hall: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1996
Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2000
Nigel Hall: Hidden Valleys, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany, 2004
Nigel Hall: Forms in Light and Shade, Recent Sculpture and Drawing, exh. cat., Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2005
Nigel Hall: Other Voices, Other Rooms, exh. cat., Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany, 2007

Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk

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