David Nash

David Nash is renowned for his large-scale abstract sculptures made of natural materials carved into organic forms such as spheres and pyramids. 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 Hayward Gallery, London, Soloman R Guggenheim Museum, New York and 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), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Salisbury Cathedral and Canary Wharf, London. In 2000 his work Cube, Sphere, Pyramid was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for the nation. 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.

Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts