RACC Art Courses at Kew Gardens
RACC Art Courses at Kew Gardens during the David Nash Exhibition April 2012 – April 2013
RACC will be running a series of art classes linked to the sculptor David Nash’s Exhibition April 2012 – April 2013, the first session of which will take place at Kew Gardens where students will also have access to Kew Gardens Educational facilities. The courses will cover ceramics (hand building),drawing into making maquettes for large scale sculptures, form in the landscape (digital photography), watercolour explorations and organic forms, large scale charcoal drawing.
David Nash is one of the UK’s most prolific creators of sculpture and an artist of international renown with work held in private collections and public galleries all over the work including the Guggenheim, Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Nash will produce and exhibit his work across the Gardens during this period and the exhibition will open to members of the public in June 2012, with sculptures, installations, drawings and film in place throughout the Gardens, glasshouses, and exhibition spaces. Nash will also produce work at Kew on a ‘wood quarry’ from April 2012, creating new pieces for the exhibition using trees from the Gardens that have come to the end of their natural life. This ongoing work will form part of the exhibition.
In a career spanning 40 years, David Nash has created over 2,000 sculptures out of wood, many of them monumental in scale. These sculptures are sometimes carved or partially burned to produce a charred surface. His main tools are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood, and fire to char it. Through his work, he has gained a deep understanding of the properties of trees. The artistic process itself is, for Nash, deeply collaborative – between the artist, his material, and the natural world.
For further details of the courses, please go to www.racc.ac.uk and type Nash into the green search box to find dates, times and prices of the courses which include entry to Kew Gardens, use of the Educational Facilities on the day at Kew and tea and coffee during the day.
