- Produced by Kew
- Price Adults £14.50, concessions £12.50, children 16 and under FREE
- Get ready to discover the great outdoors
- Bring along an umbrella- tis England, after all.
- Surf to website
- See you at Kew Gardens
Last chance to see this exhibition- closes on Sunday 14 April.
David Nash, one of the UK’s most productive sculptors, is exhibiting his work at Kew Gardens. The exhibition includes sculptures, installations, drawings and film in place throughout the Gardens, glasshouses and exhibition spaces.
From April to September 2012, Nash worked at Kew on a ‘wood quarry’, creating new pieces for the exhibition using trees from the Gardens that had come to the end of their natural life.
In a career spanning 40 years, David Nash has carved sculptures from wood, many of them monumental in scale. After carving, some pieces are then partially burned to produce a charred surface. His main tools are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood, and then fire to char it. Through his work, Nash has gained a deep understanding of the properties of trees.
