Nigel Hall

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

Life

Nigel Hall's grandfather was a stonemason who restored churches and cathedrals. The grandson could watch and work in his workshop. 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 scholarship , he came to the USA from 1967 to 1969 in Canada and Mexico. Only later, from London, did he travel to Japan, Korea and often to Switzerland. From 1971 to 1981, Nigel Hall was a lecturer and external examiner at the Royal College of Art, London, and headed the sculpture department at Chelsea College of Art and Design .

Nigel Hall lives and works in London.

In 2001 Hall received a residency grant from the Chretzeturm artist residence in Stein am Rhein . In 2003 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts .

Works

Nigel Hall produces single and multi-colored drawings. Sculptures and spatial structures have been created since the 1960s. The interplay of shadow effects and balance are significant for everyone. This also always requires an exact placement indoors and outdoors. Like the landscape of the Mojave Desert, Nigel Hall experiences the Swiss Alps as a space of silence and emptiness. This influences his drawings, which he keeps in a sketch diary every time he travels. The drawings represent more than half of his complete works.

The installations , i.e. the site-specific works , are internationally known : a two-part wall relief made of painted and gilded wood at the entrance to the Providence Tower, Dallas (1989), a wall sculpture at the entrance to the National Gallery of Australia , Canberra (1982), and his largest sculpture, a free-standing steel sculpture at the entrance to the Thameslink Road Tunnel in London (1993).

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1967 Givaudan Gallery, Paris, France
  • 1982 Nigel Hall: Sculptures and Drawings - State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
  • 1995 Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
  • 1998 New York Studio School Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2001 Sculpture at Schoenthal Foundation , Langenbruck, Switzerland
  • 2004 Nigel Hall - Sculptures in the field of tension between nature and culture - Kunsthalle Mannheim , Mannheim
  • 2008 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  • 2008 Nigel Hall: Sculpture and Drawing 1965–2008 - Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield, West Yorkshire (England)
  • 2012 Nigel Hall: Southern Shade - Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich , Switzerland

Group exhibitions (selection)

Public collections (selection)

  • Tate Gallery, London
  • 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, USA
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  • Museum in the Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany, Peter C. Ruppert Collection

Sculpture parks (selection)

Photo gallery

  • Wide Passage - Yorkshire Sculpture Park

  • Spring - Sculpture at Schoenthal

  • 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: sculptures and drawings . Exhibition catalog, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden , 1982
  • Nigel Hall: Hidden Valleys . Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Mannheim , 2004
  • Nigel Hall: Other Voices, Other Rooms . Exhibition catalog, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, 2007
  • Andrew Lambirth: Nigel Hall - Sculpture and Works on Paper . Royal Academy Books, London, 2008. ISBN 1-905711-30-1 . (The text of the book is a transcript of the interviews Andrew Lambirth conducted with Nigel Hall as part of the Artist's Lives project for National Life Stories © The British Library.)
  • Nigel Hall: Chinese Whispers . Exhibition catalog, Andresthalmann Gallery, Zurich, 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shape shifter ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Royal Academy of Arts Magazine 98, Spring 2008. [in English] @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.royalacademy.org.uk
  2. ↑ Artist residency Chretzeturm scholarship holders 1999-2015. (PDF) Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ Nigel Hall: Canberra (large) (1982) . National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  4. ↑ Portrait of Nigel Hall at the Royal Academy of Arts with list of exhibitions [in English]
  5. ↑ Museum Biedermann: British Art + ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with Nigel Hall, David Nash, Kenny Hunter, Matthew Radford, May Cornet @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-biedermann.de
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Description of the work in the exhibition catalog @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rolf-lauter.com

Web links (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Hall, Nigel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol , Gloucestershire