David Nash (artist)
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David Nash (born 14 November 1945, Esher, Surrey, UK) is a British artist and sculptor. He attended Brighton College from 1959 to 1963 and then Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School of Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970. In 1967 he moved to Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, and he is still based there. In 2004 he was awarded the OBE.
Nash is best known for his large wood sculptures, which are sometimes partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a torch to char the wood. He also makes land art, of which the best known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Nash was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1999.
In the late 1980s Nash did some work at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, near Woodside, California, where he used redwood and madrone wood.
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- David Nash page at the Royal Academy.
- David Nash at Tate St. Ives in the UK.
- David Nash bio at Crown Point Press
- David Nash at Sculpture.org.uk
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