David Nash, photo credits - BBC

David Nash

Land Art

July 30, 2013

David Nash is a British sculptor who uses a wide range of wood products and other natural materials to create unique works, which have earned him international acclaim.

Born in 1945 in Esher, United Kingdom, Nash lives and works in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. He attended Brighton College from 1959 to 1963, then Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School of Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970.[3] Nash was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999. He exhibited in a range of venues, including Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris, France, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom and Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom.

Working with natural materials such as wood, Nash uses equipment including chainsaws and an axe to carve the wood and blowtorches to char it. He often works with live trees, transforming them into unexpected shapes. Also a land artist, he is best known for Wooden Boulder. A work which begun in 1978, it involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. It is large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather.

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