David Nash at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Having watched the excellent documentary on Nash, I felt compelled to revisit his exhibition at YSP before it closes on Friday. It is just sooo lovely -and there is so much to see! I've visited a few times over the year and absolutely love the deep connection between his art work and the nature from which he borrows his materials.

Following the documentary I was considerably more aware of the text dotted around to accompany the exhibition. I tend to enjoy responding to art without text and save reading about it till after the visit. The language around his artwork is so poetic and beautifully presented I thought I'd share a couple of gems as they can easily feed into ideas for education, reflection on practice etc...



Doesn't that echo various models of evaluation and reflective practice?! (not least Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' from which so many ideas around co-constructed learning have been developed)...



... I feel a song growing out of that one.....



...and that is just fabulous! My Grandad used to teach carpentry and loved exploring all the different types of wood and creating things (mostly furniture and functional pieces but also creating for the sake of it). He would really have liked this 'kind of art'! - and he would have let Mr Nash know that he approved!