Hidden Valley 1999,, polished wood,
146 x 238 x 78 cm.
Big Blink 1996, stained and polished wood,
144 x 231,5 x 105,5 cm.
NIGEL HALL
Hidden Valley 1999,, polished wood, 146 x 238 x 78 cm. |
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REVELATION
OF SPACE AND TIME
Form in Light
and Shade, an exhibition of Nigel Hall's new work, confirms him as one of our
foremost sculptors, who has received too iittle official recognition in his
country of origin and residence. Significantly he is highly regarded abroad-in
Europé, America and the Far East-which suggests that his work has an
international rather than cosily local appeal. It does, but that is no excuse
for the lack of a proper museum, retrospective in Britain. Thankfully, there
are rumours of a substantial public showing, which l hope will be confirmed
in due course.
He is showing some recent sculptures, either in wood or metal, and eight drawings.
Now a huge amount, but then his big corten steel pieces are big. In fäet,
the only criticism l would venture is that there is perhaps too much on display.
Hairs work can take a löt of space around it, and looks best laid out sparely.
But this is a selling exhibition, not a museum installation. Instead we are
offered a rich cross section of his current preoccupations:
sculpture that is both urban objecfand landscape based, however abstracted its
forms, with suggestions of petal and leaf, semaphore telegraph, eye and magnifying
lens. These sculptures, with their lacquered copper or gorgéous polished
birch-ply surfaces, are resistant to superficial description. ('Seeing is forgetting
the name of the thing one sees.') But looking around the walls you can ät
once sense the development of ideas, the dialogue of aperture and plane, the
deft and telling orchestration of weight, volume and tonal range. What help
is it to say that two versions of 'Pearl', a form-within-a-form ovoid sculpture,
respectively in aluminum and polished wood, are equally but differentiy appealing?
With regard to this particular group of work. Hall himself has written of his
deep feelings for the Mani, that area of the southern Greek Peloponnesus the
light and landscape forms of which have stimulated some of his most evocative
new pieces. These are about sculpture on a grand, elemental scale-the meeting
point of land and sea. Here in his wooden ellipses and poignant curves are to
be found suggested the effects of wind and water, clear light and shades, all
the complex details of cliffs and outcrops, caves and concativities, revealed
by the sun or filled with deep shadows. As he writes: 'To swim and drift in
these translucent waters and observe the slowly changing relationships of promontories,
bays and islands set against the embracing are of the horizon is a revelation
of space and time.'
Selected
from Andrew Lambirth
 Nigel Hall |
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SELECTED
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1943 Born Bristol
1960-64 West of England College of Art, Bristol
1964-67 Royal College of Art, London
1967-69 Harkness Fellowship, USA
1971-74 Tutor, Royal College of Art, London
1974-81 Principal Lecturer, Head of MA Sculpture
Chelsea School of Art, London
1977-79 External Examiner, Royal College of Art, London
1979-83 Faculty Member of British School at Rome
1992-94 External Examiner, Royal College of Art, London
2001 Residency at Chretzeturm, Stein Am Rhein, Switzerland
2002 Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize, Royal Academy
2003 Elected to Royal Academy
Lives and works in London
ONE MAN
EXHIBITIONS
1967 Galerie Givaudan, Paris
1968 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1970 Galerie
Neuendorf, Hamburg
Galerie Neuendorf, Köln
Serpentine Gallery, London
1971 Studio Show, London
1972 Nicholas
Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
1974 Felicity
Samuel Gallery, London
Primo Piano Gallery, Rome
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
1975 Gallery
Galax, Goteborg
Galerie Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris
1976 Felicity
Samuel Gallery, London
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1977 Robert
Elkon Gallery, New York
Tranegaarden Art Library, Copenhagen
1978 University
of Melbourne Art Gallery
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Round House Gallery, London (Installation)
Chandler Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Geelong Art Gallery, Australia
Shepparton Art Gallery, Australia
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia
1979 Primo
Piano Gallery, Rome
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Benalla Art Gallery, Australia
Undercroft Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
Southampton University Art Gallery (Installation)
Galerie Reckermann, Köln
Peterloo Gallery, Manchester (with Alan Green)
1980 Ceolfrith
Gallery, Sunderland Arts Centre
St Paul's Gallery, Leeds
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Warwick Gallery, London
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Southill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
1981 Galerie
Maeght, Paris
Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1982 Staatliche
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
1983 Robert
Elkon Gallery, New York
Galerie Maeght-Lelong, Paris (with Alan Green)
Gallery Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1984 Galerie
Reckermann, Köln
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Klaus Lüpke, Frankfurt
1985 Juda
Rowan Gallery, London
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Nicole Gonet, Arte Moderne, Lausanne
1986 Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1987 Veranneman
Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Hete Hunermann Gallery, Düsseldorf
1988 Nishimura
Gallery, Tokyo
Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1989 Galerie
Blanche, Stockholm
Studio 5 Gallery, Chippenham, Wiltshire
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
1990 Garry
Anderson Gallery, Sydney
Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Annely
Juda Fine Art, London
Galerie Terbruggen, Heidelberg
1994 Galerie Nova, Pontresina, Switzerland
1995 Galerie
Renée Ziegler, Zurich
Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
1996 Annely
Juda Fine Art, London
Shell Technology and Research Centre, Amsterdam
1997 Veranneman
Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Economist Plaza, London
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
1998 New York Studio School Gallery, New York
1999 Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
2000 Konstruktiv
Tendens, Stockholm
Annely Juda
Fine Art, London
Galerie C.
Hjärne, Helsingborg, Sweden
Park Ryu
Sook Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
2001 Sculpture at Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck, Switzerland
2002 Art Space Gallery, London
2003 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2004 Galerie
C. Hjärne, Helsingborg, Sweden
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2005 Annely
Juda Fine Art, London
Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Korea
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1967 'Salon
de Mai', Musée National de l'Art Moderne, Paris
Maison de la Culture, Amiens
1967-69 'New British Painting and Sculpture', UCLA Galleries, Los Angeles and subsequent tour of USA and Canada
1969-70 'Young and Fantastic', ICA Gallery, London and subsequent tour of USA and Canada
1970-71 'British Sculptors' Drawings', Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires and subsequent tour of South America
1972 'Eight
Individuals', Arts Council touring exhibition
'British Sculpture '72', Royal Academy, London
'British Sculpture '72', Redfern Gallery, London
an associated exhibition of drawings and smaller works
'Untitled 3', Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris
'City Sculpture Project', Stuyvesant Foundation
ICA Gallery, London and subsequent tour of UK
Alexandre Iolas Gallery, Paris (with Jackie Monnier)
'Art Systems', Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
'Steel Sculpture', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
'Serpentine Directions', Leeds City Art Gallery and subsequent tour of UK
'Sculptor's Drawings', Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles and
J L Hudson Gallery, Detroit
'Drawing', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
'British Drawing '52-'72', Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1973 'Sculptor's
Drawings', Angela Flowers Gallery, London
'Young English Artists', Goteborg Art Museum, Sweden
Perth Drawing International, Perth
First British Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough
Gallery Artists, Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
'Earth Images', Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and subsequent tour
'Miniature Prints', Bernard Jacobson, London
'Square Collection', Arts Council touring exhibition
1974 Richard
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Bradford Print Biennale (Alecto Commission Prize)
Gallery Artists, Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
1975 CAS
Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London
'British Art Mid '70s', Jahrhunderthalle, Hoechst, Germany
'International Exhibition of Graphic Art', Ljublijana, former Yugoslavia
'Sculptor as Draughtsman', JPL Gallery, London
9th Paris Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
'The Condition of Sculpture', Hayward Gallery, London
'Drawings', Burleighfield House, Buckinghamshire
British Exhibition, Basle Art Fair, Switzerland
2nd British Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough
'Six Artists' Drawings', Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton and subsequent tour
'Works on Paper', Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
1976 'Arte
Inglese Oggi (1960-76)', Palazzo Reale, Milan
'British Graphics '76', University of Kentucky
Bradford Print Biennale
Sydney Sculpture Biennale
'Summer Exhibition', Felicity Samuel Gallery, London
1977 'Plan
and Space', Academy of Fine Art, Ghent
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
'Documenta VI', Kassel
Royal Scottish Academy Summer Exhibition (by invitation)
International Biennale Of Graphic Art, Ljublijana, former Yugoslavia
'CAS Works on Paper', Royal Academy, London
1978 Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition, London
'Sculpture', Artists Market, London
National Gallery of Art, Cardiff
McCrory Collection, Tel Aviv Museum
'Works on Paper', Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
1979 Bradford
Print Biennale
Biennale of European Graphic Art, Heidelberg
'Sculptor's Drawings', Minories Gallery, Colchester
'Contemporary Works on Paper', Gainsborough's House, Sudbury
'The British Art Show', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
'Drawings: Delap, Tucker, Hall', Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
'Drawings', New York Studio School, New York
'Today: British Art of 60's and 70's', Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
1979-81 'Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition', McCrory Corporation Collection,
touring exhibition:-
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
Seattle Art Museum
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Milwaukee Art Center
1980 'Reliefs:
Formprobleme zwischen Malerei und Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert',
Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Munster and Kunsthaus, Zurich
'Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert', Wenkenpark, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
'The Leicestershire Collection', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1981 'Nature
du Dessin', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Third Tolly Cobbold Drawing Biennale, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
'Four Sculptors (Arnoldi, Delap, Hall, Tucker)', Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
'Five Sculptors (Biederman, Gummer, Hall, Kendrick, Oz)', The Clocktower, New
York
'Dessins', Galerie Maeght, Paris
'Robert Elkon - Two Decades', Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
1981-82
'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century Part II: Symbol and
Imagination 1951-80', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1982 'Aspects
of British Art Today':-
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
Fukuoka Art Museum
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
'Graphic Show '82', Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
'Contemporary Art Society's Choice 1979-1981', Serpentine Gallery, London
1983 'Drawings',
Rochdale Art Gallery
'Drawing in Air'
Sunderland Arts Centre; Glynn Vivian Gallery and Museum, Swansea;
City Art Gallery and Henry Moore Study Centre, Leeds
'Works on Paper', Garry Anderson Gallery, Potts Point, Australia
'The Sculpture Show '83: Selected New Work by Fifty Sculptors',
Hayward Gallery, London
1984 'Art
on Paper', Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
'Five Sculptors', Juda Rowan Gallery, London
'Artists Design for Dance', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
'British Contemporary Drawings', The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga,
Otsu City
1984-85 'Sculptors' Drawings', British Council touring show, Hyogo Prefectural Museum and subsequent tour of Japan, Korea and the Far East
1985 'Sculptors'
Drawings', Chelsea School of Art Gallery, London
Galerie Numaga, Neuchâtel
'Twenty Five Years': Annely Juda Fine Art/Juda Rowan Gallery;
Three Decades of Contemporary Art?, Juda Rowan Gallery, London
Contemporary Art Society Market, Five Dials Gallery, London
'5th Tolly Cobbold Exhibition', Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and tour
'Harkness Arts', Air Gallery, London
1986 'A
Focus on British Art', International Cultural Centre, Antwerp
'Die Ecke', Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
'Contemporary British Sculpture', Hong Kong
1987 'Contemporary
British Medals', British Museum, London
'Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings (Nigel Hall, Michael Kenny, David Nash)',
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
'Düsseldorfer Galerien präsentieren sich bei Bankhaus Drinkhaus',
Düsseldorf
'Drawings', Mark Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 'Die
Ecke', Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Sion, Switzerland
'British Sculptors of the XX Century', Art Curial, Paris
'Arbeiten auf Papier', Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt
'Plus moins Zero', ISELP, Brussels
'Stichtung Verenneman Vlaams', Cultural Centre, Belgium
'Olympiad of Art', Seoul
1988-89
'Britannica, Trente ans de Sculpture', Musée des Beaux Arts André
Malraux,
Le Havre touring to Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium and
Centre d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenées, Labège-Innopole, Toulouse
1989 'From Picasso to Abstraction', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1990 Royal
Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
'Designing for Rambert', Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton
'Sculptors' Works on Paper', Flowers East, London
'Sculpture in XXth Century', Galerie Academia, Salzburg
BP Oil Sculpture Exhibition, The Royal Festival Hall, London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion IX', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1991 Cleveland
Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough
XV Biennale of Small Sculpture, Palazza della Ragione, Padova, Italy
'Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings', William Jackson Gallery, London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion X', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1992 'Ytans
Djup', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Gifts to the Nation', Contemporary Arts Society Purchases 1988-1991,
Camden Art Centre, London
'Lady Gibberd's Collection', Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
'Council for National Academic Awards Collection', John Jones Gallery,
London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XI', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1993 'Skulpturen',
Galerie Heinz Teufel, Bad Munstereifel, Mahlberg, Germany
'Drawings in Black and White', Museum of Modern Art, New York
'Sculpture beside the Thames', Chelsea Harbour, London
'Art in the City', London
'Sculptors' Drawings', Barbican Centre, London
'Drawing Towards Sculpture', Isis Gallery, Leigh-on-Sea
'Partners', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
10th Contemporary Art Society Art Market, London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XII', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Small is Beautiful', Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1994 'Five
Artists', Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida
'Prints of Darkness', Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass
'Sculpture at Hat Hill', Goodwood, West Sussex
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XIII', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'British Drawings: A selection from the collection', Museum of Modern Art, New
York
1995 'Cabinet
Pictures', Jason and Rhodes, London
'British Abstract Art Part 2: Sculpture', Flowers East, London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XIV', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'A Passion for the New, New Art in Tel Aviv Collections', Helena Rubinstein
Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
'Raritäten und Gelegenheiten', Galerie Hete Hunerman, Düsseldorf
1996 'Skulpturen
und Arbeiten auf Papier', Galerie Ziegler, Zurich
'Sculptors and Prints', Curwen Gallery, London
'Art-Science-Art', Shell Technology and Research Centre, Amsterdam
'British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper', Flowers East, London
'A Sculptors Choice', Royal Academy, London
1997 'Geometrisk
Abstraktion XVI', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'A Changed World', British Council Touring Exhibition, Hindu Gymkhana, Karachi
and The Old Fort, Lahore
1998 'Collection
V, Drawing', Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
'British Sculpture', Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck
'Drawings by British Sculptors from Sculpture at Goodwood 1994-98'
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
'Small is Beautiful XVI', Flowers East, London
'A Changed World', British Council Touring Exhibition, Johannesburg Art Gallery,
South African National Gallery, Cape Town and National Gallery of Zimbabwe,
Bulawayo
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XV11', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1999 'Sculpture
at Goodwood', Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim and Noordbrabants Museum, Hertogenbosch,
Netherlands.
'The Shape of the Century 1900-1999', Salisbury Cathedral and Canary Wharf,
London
'Zum Kreis', Museum Zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
'Sculptures De La Collection du British Council 1965-1998', Musée Des
Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
New Arts Centre Sculpture Garden, Roche Court, Wiltshire
'A Changed World', British Council Touring Exhibition, National Gallery of Zimbabwe,
Harare and Museé des Beaux Arts, Valenciennes
'A Line in Painting', Gallery Fine, London
'20 Jahre Für Die Kunst', Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz
'Small is Beautiful XVII', Flowers East, London
'45-99 - A personal view of British painting and sculpture by Bryan Robertson',
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Leicester City Museum
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XVIII', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Constructive Art in Europe at the threshold of the third millennium', Galerie
Emilia Suciu, Ettlingen, Germany and Galerie Hors Lieux, Strasbourg
2000 'Bronze: An Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture', Holland Park,
London
'Sculpture at Schoenthal Monastery', Langenbruck, Switzerland
'The Pastel Society: Pastel Painting and Drawing 1898-2000', Mall Galleries,
London
'Sculpture at Goodwood: Drawings and Models', Derby Museum and Art Gallery
'Beyond the Circle', Moran Museum, Seoul, S. Korea
'Sculptura 2000', Park 'Kasteel Blauhuis', Izegem, Belgium
'The Eye of the Storm', La Mandria Park, Turin
'Sculpture in the Open Air', Yorkshire Sculpture Park
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XIX', Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
2001 'Blickachsen
3', Bad Homburg, Germany
'Out of Line: Drawings from the Arts Council Collection', York City Art Gallery
and Tour
'Group Exhibition', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
'Base Metal', Gallery Fine Two, London
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XX', Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Group Exhibition', Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Venice
2002 'Sculpture
at Salisbury Cathedral', Salisbury
'Falling Leaves', Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury
'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London, (Jack Goldhill Prize for Sculpture)
'Thinking Big: 21st Century British Sculpture', Guggenheim Museum, Venice
'Dialogue Across Mountains', Swiss Embassy, London
'In Praise of Trees', Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
'Sterling Stuff', Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, Glos.
'150th Autumn Exhibition', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (Invited Sculptor)
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XXI', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Small is Beautiful XX', Flowers East, London
'Size Matters', Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
'Poetics of Space', Galleri Il Prisma, Cuneo, Italy
2003 'Sterling
Stuff', The Sigurjon Olaffson Sculpture Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
'Aykley Heads Sculpture Exhibition', Durham
'Editions Alecto: A Fury for Prints, Artists Prints and Multiples 1960-81',
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and City Art Centre, Edinburgh
'Blickachsen 4', Bad Homburg, Germany
'Group Exhibition', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
'Overground: Contemporary Sculpture in Jubilee Park', Canary Wharf, London
'Small is Beautiful XXI', Flowers Central, London
'Winter Print Fair', Royal Academy, London
'20th Anniversary Exhibition', Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea
'Geometrisk Abstraktion XXII', Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
'Eighteen Small Prints', Bernard Jacobsen Print Gallery, London
'Donation Jeunet', Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
'Die Neue Kunsthalle II', Kunsthalle, Mannheim
2004 'In
Praise of Trees', Metropole Gallery, Folkstone
'>Apriori< - 25 Jahre…', Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz,
Germany