#david nash

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Khorne Temple

by David Auden Nash

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David Nash

Hawthorn Tree 2023

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David Nash (British, b. 1945) Red Stack - 2020

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David Nash [UK] (b 1945) ~ 'July', 2020. Pastel on paper (99 x 67 cm).

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Drydock by David Nash

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David Nash

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Sculpture

Research 1/3

For my research into the project, talking with Sarah, I was pointed towards several artists.

The first I looked at was David Nash, with his sculptures mainly using natural materials, most commonly wood and using a variety of experiements with tools and methods.

Here through a combination of a chainsaw, burning charcoal he managed to create a series of interesting a varied shapes with the wood trunks and logs.

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David Nash - Red over Black. 2012

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David Nash, Walking Ladder (1984).

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Shipwreck

by David Auden Nash

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David Nash

Iron Column, 2017

Pastel Stencil on Arches paper 250gsm

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I Can't See the Trees For the Wood

David Nash is a much admired British sculptor who has mainly worked with wood during his long career as an artist. Nash left Kingston College of Art in 1967 and bought a chapel very cheaply, in the hills of the Snowdonia Welsh slate quarry town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, which came equipped with high vaulted ceilings, ideal for working with large tree trunks. He still very much lives and works in Blaenau and as well as his artistic practice, he has inspired many students worldwide on sculpture in mainly wood, but has also recently created bronze sculptures. The wood that Nash uses is carefully selected for its properties, and it is also noted that the trees that he works with have naturally fallen or are diseased. Nash’s most famous two works are the subject of some fascination for me. The first sculpture called, Ash Dome, 1977, is a living sculpture and is situated in a mysterious, secluded spot in Snowdonia.

It consists of a series of 22 ash trees that Nash trained to form a kind of covert whirlpool in the Eryri landscape. I would love to visit the ash assemblage, however, its location is a clandestine mystery; only a few are lucky enough to find its whereabouts. From photographs, it looks like it has been caught beneath a freak tornado and gnarled into formation. Nash wanted to plant something to represent hope for the 21st century when the outcome of that likelihood looked bleak in late 1970s Britain. Nash sees his living sculptures as engaging in the physical realms of space and time as if ‘the doctor’ was dabbling in art. He views it as fourth-dimensional art, and Nash is very inspirational in the intellectual rigour of his practice. The sculpture is the genesis, and the end emerges through the pathway of time.

What Nash had come to believe in his love of sculpture, is that his outdoor works do not try to resist the natural elements but have a relationship and engage with their environment. Nash came to this belief when he understood at a young age that the reason he did not like a lot of outside sculptures was due to the destructive resistance to those elements. If they were not preserved, they would look awful or worse; Nash anticipates this with Ash Dome and in the shaping and growing of the trees. Nash’s other famous piece is called Wooden Boulder, 1977. Also, a piece that actively connects with the natural elements, be it at a different point of the life-death cycle. When Nash first sculpted the piece, it was barely touched with his chainsaw and just about took on its spherical form. Nash originally wanted to launch the boulder, but in transporting it back from the forest to his Methodist chapel, it became trapped halfway down a waterfall and he realised that is where it should live. The whole point was its movement and relationship with the elements. It eventually made its way down the stream and into the river Dwyryd estuary after many years slowly moving through the North Welsh landscape. Indeed, it had a very eventful journey through the years and is unfortunately hidden, for now.

Will it reveal itself once more? It is still there somewhere, It might have escaped, but it is there. It is probably Nash’s most famous piece and defies any artistic label. Could it even be performance art? I think the profundity of Nash’s Wooden Boulder cannot be understated. I love Nash’s teaching philosophy, he has come to believe that you don’t just teach a child things as if an empty vessel taking on board information and then being tested on, but rather a child is born with everything already there and the child just needs to learn to identify what they have inside, so Nash says that the teacher's role is to give the child appropriate experiences that they can recognise in themselves. When someone loves an artist's work, it is because they are acknowledging something in themselves. I love this idea and I also believe it to be true.  Nash has exhibited worldwide over the years. Who knows when and where Nash’s most famous piece of art Wooden Boulder will be exhibited next?

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Oculus - Il riflesso del male

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo continuato a discutere di fumetti, spostandoci questa volta negli USA e prendendo in esame i comics, specialmente uno riguardante il mio supereroe preferito con Superman: Stagioni. La storia parla della crescita di Clark, da quando andava al liceo a Smallville fino a quando si è trasformato in Superman, compiendo gesti…

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David Nash [UK] (b 1945) ~ 'Red And Black Triangle', 2009. Stencil in colors (57,5 x 38 cm).

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A very significant endorsement for this petition

Just over 7 weeks ago I wrote a blog entitled “Significant requests for us to Call a General Election” which was focused on a petition which is entitled “Call an immediate general election” listed as 641904 and submitted by David Nash. His petition can be obtained from here and the text is below. He submitted it on the 4th August and 12 days later when I spotted it, it had 41 signatures which I…