The Quest Gallery Shows Nigel Hall's Sculpture and Drawings

Written by Ewan Grundy Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:35

Bath, England.- The Quest Gallery is proud to present "Nigel Hall: Sculptures and Drawings From Four Decades", on view at the gallery until August 6th. Nigel Hall RA has worked on sculptures and spatial structures since the 1960s, as well as creating single and multi-coloured drawings. His work reflects his fascination with how geometry can be discerned in landscape. Exploring space and a sense of placement has been integral to his work. Shadows, line, mass and void play an equal role, as well as changes of aspects from altered viewpoints. He is inspired by the silence and vastness of spaces such as the Mojave Desert and the Swiss Alps.

Nigel was born in Bristol in 1943. His maternal grandfather was a West Country stonemason, working on cathedrals and churches in and around Bristol, where he grew up: 'I still have, and use, my grandfather's carving tools. His love of working with stone was what set me off as a child.' He studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol, and at the Royal College of Art, London where he graduated in 1967 and later became a tutor. After winning the Harkness Fellowship he lived and worked in Los Angeles until 1969. One of the foremost sculptors of his generation, his preoccupation with space and balance has led him to create some of the most beautiful works of sculpture to have been produced over the last 30 years.

His drawings reveal his skill as a consummate draughtsman. Nigel is well represented in numerous public collections in the UK and also the USA, Asia, Australia and Europe. These include TATE, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Zurich and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nigel has also undertaken both private and public large-scale, site-specific commissions internationally. In 2008, he had a solo survey show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield and in the autumn of 2011 he will be exhibiting his seldom-seen notebooks and landscape drawings at the Royal Academy, in their Artists' Laboratory series, to which he was elected in 2003. Nigel now lives and works in London.

Quest Gallery is situated in the Georgian city of Bath, UK at 7 Margaret’s Buildings close by the World Heritage site of the Royal Crescent.  The area is a gallery quarter and Quest Gallery specializes in showing contemporary fine and applied arts. Quest Gallery was established in 2004. One of its aims is to mix paintings and prints with applied art objects of fine quality. Thry source art internationally and from the UK, and have permanent collections of a wide range of artists including members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Australian Aborigne artists, through a link with a gallery in Australia, ceramics by Pippin Drysdale. glass by Rachael Woodman, Richard Jackson and Sally Fawkes, Peter Layton and various Slovakian artists, silverwork of Sidsel Dorph Jensen and Ane Christensen, and jewellery by Wendy Ramshaw. They were recently nominated to become a member of LAPADA MODERN [LAPADA is the UK's largest association of professional art and antiques dealers]. Visit the gallery's website at ... http://www.questgallery.co.uk

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