Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield
West Bretton
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Two exhibitions
dal 26/5/2010 al 26/2/2011

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Eleanor Bryson



 
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26/5/2010

Two exhibitions

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

David Nash / New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection


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Sculpture, installation and drawings by David Nash

From 29 May 2010 Yorkshire Sculpture Park will present a rich and extensive exhibition of work by David Nash, tracing the evolution of the artist's forty year career and offering a vivid statement of his life's work. Sculpture, installation and drawings will range across the Park and include new monumental works for the Underground Gallery, a retrospective survey in Longside Gallery and contextual displays from the artist's archive alongside sculpture in the open air and a permanent outdoor commission. This is envisaged to be the largest exhibition, present or future, by an internationally acclaimed artist who has developed an eloquent understanding of trees, working with their traits to create sculpture, installation, projects and related drawings.

The Underground Gallery will feature imposing new works, including huge redwood crags and large black eucalyptus spheres, which the artist is currently making in California. The expansive Longside Gallery will present a survey of retrospective work from the artist's and international collections. The Bothy Gallery will illustrate one of the artist's most celebrated projects, Wooden Boulder, a large piece of 200 year-old oak released into a stream in the Welsh mountains in 1978, whose journey is documented through drawing, film and photography. The Garden Gallery will show works from the artist's archive, which explore the development of his practice.

The exhibition will be documented through a specially commissioned artist film by Pete Telfer, edited alongside archive footage, presenting a fascinating insight into the artist and his practice. There will also be a box set of four publications with texts by Ben Tufnell, Peter Murray, Dr Sabine Schlenker and the artist. The artist will also present a limited edition print and a limited edition twig sculpture.

Born in 1945, David Nash's first solo exhibition was in York in 1973. An artist of international renown, his work is held in private collections and public galleries all over the world including the Guggenheim, Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. At the age of 21, Nash established a base in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales, and lives and works at Capel Rhiw, a former chapel built in 1863.

Events:
Masterclass Drawing with very special guest David Nash | 9-13 June | 10am-4pm | 01924 832528 | £355 per person
An evening with David Nash at Theatre Royal Wakefield | 11 June | 8pm | £10, £8, £6 (plus concessions)

29 May – 11 July 2010
Project Space, Longside Gallery

New Film and Video from the Arts Council Collection

This is the second in a series of touring exhibitions from the Arts Council Collection presenting new film and video works in the form of a miniature season. A different work will be shown each week for the six-week duration of the exhibition, providing a useful insight into current practices in artists’ film and video. Artists represented: Spartacus Chetwynd, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Torsten Lauschmann, Simon Martin, Mark Neville and Margaret Salmon.

The Arts Council Collection supports artists in the UK through the purchase and display of their work. Since it was founded in 1946, the Collection’s acquisition policy has always been characterized by a spirit of risk taking combined with an informal appraisal of current practice. As a consequence, the Arts Council Collection is now the largest national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world. It is the most widely circulated of all of Britain’s national collections and can be seen in exhibitions in museums and galleries across the UK and abroad.

The sculpture base at Longside enables the Arts Council Collection to extend its conservation and research programmes and to increase access to the sculpture collection through exhibitions at venues across the UK and at Longside Gallery. The current programme in the Project Space provides a first view of new acquisitions of film, installation and photography. Looking at how artists explore ideas of storytelling, re-enactment and the construction of fictional spaces through mediation and repetition, this exciting programme provides an insight to the range and diversity of work by artists living and working in Britain today.

Image: David Nash

For further press enquiries:
Eleanor Bryson, Press Officer t. 01924 832642 eleanor.bryson@ysp.co.uk

Press view: Thursday 27 May, 11.30 onwards

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG
Opening Hours
Grounds, Centre, 10-6
Restaurant, shop + indoor galleries 10-5
Car park locked 6.30
Admission to YSP, grounds and all gallery exhibitions is free of charge

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