David Nash at Kew - a selected artist biography

Artist biography for David Nash. David Nash at Kew: A Natural Gallery opens in June 2012. See Nash's imagination take shape in this major new sculpture exhibition.

Exhibition supported by Xstrata.

David Nash, a selected biography

  • 1945 - born Esher, Surrey, England
  • 1963 t0 1967 - studied Kingston College of Art
  • 1967 - moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, where he lives and works
  • 1969 to 1970 - Postgraduate Study, Chelsea School of Art
  • 1999 - elected Royal Academician
  • 2004 - awarded OBE for services to the arts

Selected one-man exhibitions

  • 1973 - Briefly Cooked Apples, Queen Elizabeth Hall, York and Oriel, Bangor, Wales
  • 1976 - Loosely Held Grain, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
  • 1978 - Fletched Over Ash, AIR Gallery, London; Arts Centre, Chester; Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
  • 1980 - Wood quarry, Elise Meyer Gallery, New York
  • 1982 - Wood quarry, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
  • 1983 - Sixty Seasons, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, Swansea; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
  • 1983 - Removals and Conversions, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
  • 1984 to 1985 - Ki'no Inochi, Ki no Katachi, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi-ken; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai; Fukuoka Art Museum; Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo
  • 1986 - Tree to Vessel, Juda Rowan Gallery, London
  • 1987 - Sculpture from the Djerassi Foundation, L.A. Louver, California
  • 1989 - Mosaic Egg, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  • 1990 - David Nash - Sculpture 1971-90, Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 1993 - At the Edge of the Forest, Oriel, The Friary, Cardiff; Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  • 1994 - Voyages and Vessels, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha & tour, USA
  • 1995 - Otoineppu - Spirit of Three Seasons, Asahikawa Museum of Art, & tour, Japan
  • 1996 - Line of Cut, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
  • 1996 - David Nash: Sculpture from Japan, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  • 1997 - David Nash Sculptures, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
  • 1997 - Sculpture from California, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
  • 1998 - David Nash Sculpture, Galerie Lelong, New York
  • 2000 - Chwarel Goed - Wood Quarry: David Nash, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
  • 2001 - David Nash - From Wales, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
  • 2001 - Black and Light, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  • 2003 - David Nash: Roche Beech, New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court
  • 2004 - David Nash - Twmps and Eggs, Galerie Lelong, Paris
  • 2004 - David Nash – Making and Placing Abstract Sculpture 1978-2004, Tate Gallery, St Ives
  • 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
  • 2006 - David Nash - Trunks Thicken, Branches Lengthen, Roots Deepen, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
  • 2007 - David Nash, With the Grain: A New Sculpture, Lewes, Sussex
  • 2007 - David Nash, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2008 - David Nash – Retrospective, Kunsthalle Emden, Emdem
  • 2009 - David Nash, Galeria Alvaro Alcazar, Madrid
  • 2009 - David Nash – Monumental Sculpture, Kunsthalle Mannheim,
  • 2009 - David Nash – Drawings and Sculpture, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
  • 2010 - David Nash – Recent Sculptures and Colour Works, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
  • 2010 to 2011 - David Nash at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
  • 2012 - Black and Red: Bronze and Wood, Galerie Lelong, Paris
  • 2012 - Red & Black, Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal
  • 2012 to 2013 - David Nash at Kew: A Natural Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

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