Photo courtesy the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery, London © David Nash
The Burton at Bideford Art Gallery and Museum presents a solo exhibition of work by one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, David Nash, renowned for his work that explores the relationship between material, process and the natural world. The exhibition highlights the vital role of works on paper, reflecting both the natural formations and shapes of his sculptures as well as revealing Nash’s distinctive approach to the changing rhythms, colours and structures of the landscape.
In a career spanning forty years, David Nash has engaged in a focused and singular pursuit, seeking to understand the nature of place through the creation of sculpture in the dominant medium of wood. Living in the rugged countryside of northern Wales, he crafts his sculptures based on both the growth patterns and characteristics of the trees, as well as his concerns for the formal elements of contemporary sculpture. The resulting works are poetically carved, sawn and charred until they reach the artist’s desire shape, texture and color. For Nash, the artistic process itself is deeply collaborative between artist and material, place and perception.
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