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In the studio with Nigel Hall RA, filmed in 2011.
Nigel Hall RA (b. 1943)
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, and a solo exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Academy in 2011. In 2017, Hall was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London.
Profile
Born: 1943 in Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Elected RA: 17 March 2003
Elected Senior RA: 1 October 2018
Gender: Male
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Preferred media: Sculpture
Works by Nigel Hall in the RA Collection
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My work has always been about place.
Nigel Hall RA
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Gallery
![Nigel Hall RA, Drawing 1620]()
Nigel Hall RA, Drawing 1620.
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Selected CV
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Recent solo exhibitions
2018 From Memory, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
2017 Drawings and Smaller Works, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
Sculpture in Steel and Bronze, Heidelberg Sculpture Park
2016 Here and Now, There and Then, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2015 Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg
Curved Spaces, Galerie Alvaro Alcazar, Madrid
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
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
2007 Galerie Christian Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
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Selected 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 -
Selected commissions
2018 Private Collection, Mannheim, Germany
2015 Kensington Leisure Centre
2011 Kirkpatrick Oil, Hennessey, Oklahoma, USA
2008 Energiedienst AG, Laufenburg, Switzerland
2006 Bank for International Settlements, Basel
2005 University of Oxford
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
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![Nigel Hall RA, Chinese Whispers]()
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Chinese Whispers
This etching was created by Nigel Hall and printed with Norman Ackroyd for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2008. The opposing forms in the foreground of the print are not quite identical. In the artist’s own words, ‘one shape is transformed to the next with slight changes’.
The ‘teardrop’ shapes form a negative and a positive, a yin and a yang, thereby creating both balance and opposition. The image closely relates to a sequence of twelve wall-based sculptures made by Hall, in which two similar forms make up a unified whole.
Chinese Whispers and other prints by Nigel Hall RA are available to buy online in the RA Shop.
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