David Nash Sculpture

David Nash, May 29 2010 - February 27 2011, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is hosting a new exhibition tracing the evolution of David Nash's forty-year career, offering a vivid statement of his life's work.

The exhibition will include sculpture, installation and drawings displayed right across the Park, highlights will include new monumental works for the Underground Gallery, a retrospective survey in the Longside Gallery and contextual displays from the artist's archive alongside sculpture in the open air and a permanent outdoor commission.

This is the largest exhibition to date by the internationally acclaimed artist who has developed an eloquent understanding of trees, working with their traits to create sculpture, installation projects and related drawings.

Nash's pieces explore the different properties of wood as a material to create with - his notable pieces include tower constructions, burnt twig charcoal drawings and growing works, most famously Ash Dome, planted in 1977.

Significantly, Nash began to use the unseasoned wood of whole tree trunks and limbs after rediscovering forgotten pieces of timber that had continued to change without his intervention.

This method celebrates the unique attributes of his chosen material as it continues to dry, warp and crack, changing in appearance long after the artist has finished shaping it.

YSP has joined forces with Sky Arts 1 HD to produce a film tracing the evolution of the Park and capturing a fascinating glimpse into its daily life.