Nigel Hall (sculptor)

Nigel Hall ( born August 30, 1943 in Bristol, Gloucestershire ) is an English sculptor and draftsman.

Life

Nigel Hall's grandfather was a stonemason, churches and cathedrals restored. In the workshop of the grandchildren could watch and participate. The " carving " of stone later influenced Hall's sculptures and drawings.

From 1960 to 1964 he studied at the West of England College of Art in Bristol, from 1964 to 1967 at the Royal College of Art in London. With a Harkness Fellowship he came from 1967 to 1969 in the United States to Canada and Mexico. Only later, from London, he traveled to Japan, Korea, and often in Switzerland. From 1971 to 1981 Nigel Hall lecturer and external examination Member of the Royal College of Art, London, and directed the Department of Sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and Design.

Nigel Hall lives and works in London.

In 2003 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Works

Nigel Hall manufactures single and multi- colored drawings. Since the 1960s, created sculptures and spatial structures. Significant for all the interplay of shadow effects and balance. This also implies always an exact placement indoors and outdoors. As the landscape of the Mojave Desert experienced Nigel Hall, the Swiss Alps as a space of silence and emptiness. This influenced his drawings, which he holds for all journeys in a sketch diary. The drawings represent more than half of his oeuvre

Internationally known are the installations, so the location-related works: a two-piece wall relief of painted and gilded wood at the entrance of Providence Tower, Dallas (1989 ), a wall sculpture at the entrance of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (1982 ), and its largest sculpture, a free-standing steel sculpture at the entrance of the Thames Link Road tunnel in London ( 1993).

Solo exhibitions (selection )

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • Biennale de Paris (1975 ), Paris
  • Documenta 6 (1977 ), Kassel
  • Peggy Guggenheim Collection (2002/ 03), Venice
  • Lines of sight (2001, 2003, 2005, 2011), Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
  • PMMK (2006), Ostend

Public collections (selection)

  • Musee National d' Art Moderne, Paris
  • New National Gallery, Berlin
  • Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
  • National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  • Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas, United States
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  • Museum in the cultural memory of Würzburg, Germany, Peter C. Ruppert Collection

Sculpture Park (selection)

Photo Gallery

Crossing (Vertical) - Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Slow Motion - Mannheim

Literature (selection )

  • Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawings. Exhibition catalog, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1978
  • Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawings. Exhibition catalog, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden, 1982
  • Nigel Hall: Hidden Valley. Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2004
  • Nigel Hall: Other Voices, Other Rooms. Exhibition catalog, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, 2007
  • Andrew Lambirth: Nigel Hall - Sculpture and Works on Paper. Royal Academy Books, London, 2008 ISBN 1905711301 -. ( The text of the book is a transcript of the interviews that Andrew Lambirth with Nigel Hall resulted in the Artist 's Lives project for National Life Stories © The British Library. )
  • Nigel Hall: Chinese Whispers. Exhibition catalog, Galerie Andre Thalmann, Zurich, 2010
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